Myths & Maidens, edited by DEGANZ member Cushla Dillon, won the Best Current Affairs (long) or Documentary category at the 2025 Voyager Media Awards. The annual awards ceremony encourages, showcases, and acknowledges the best of Atearoa’s news media across all platforms. Since 1973, the awards have recognised the work of journalists, reporters, feature writers, columnists, […]
April Phillips (DEGANZ) is crowdfunding to finish post-production on 1978, a feature film she co-wrote and is co-directing. Set in 1978, the film follows the lives of a rural Māori-Pākehā family fighting on two fronts: the loss of ancestral land and the closure of their small country school. Inspired by one of the team’s childhood, 1978 […]
Seven DEGANZ members’ mahi is being showcased in this year’s programme of imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival, the world’s largest exhibition for film, video, audio, and digital, and interactive media made by Indigenous creators. Starting in 2000, this year marks imagineNATIVE’s 25th run with 55 Indigenous nations from 16 countries included in the line […]
The Sender, directed by Liv McClymont (DEGANZ) and edited by fellow member Ben Chesters, is out now on Instagram and TikTok. The NZ On Air funded web series was created by Liv and producer Jessica Todd to meet young audiences where they are. Shot in a vertical aspect ratio and edited to suit the short […]
Three feature films from DEGANZ members have been selected for this year’s Sydney Film Festival (SFF). SFF is celebrating its 72nd year with more than 240 films from 70 countries in the programme. The selected films cover themes of resistance, rebellion, identity, climate change, and cultural struggle. The highly anticipated Pike River, directed by Robert […]