This news piece contains references to systemic child abuse. Please proceed with care. The Stolen Children of Aotearoa, edited by DEGANZ board president Ben Powdrell and fellow member Trinity Ludlow-Hudson, is premiering later this month at Māoriland Film Festival, followed by a wider release on Whakaata Māori and Māori+. The feature documentary unearths the chilling […]
Five films from DEGANZ members are in this year’s Melbourne Women Film Festival (MWFF) programme. MWFF showcases work from women and gender diverse filmmakers from Australia, Aotearoa, and the Pacific Islands. This year marks the ninth run of the annual festival and will include retrospective screenings, Q&As with filmmakers and creative personnel, diverse short film […]
This week’s DEGANZ Watch List features a tense drama series centered on Iwi politics and a fun-hearted factual web series highlighting blind and low vision young folks living in Aotearoa. DEGANZ member Huhana Ruri-Panapa edited the new drama series, End of the Valley while fellow members Julie Zhu and Sheldene Seth co-directed Sight Unseen. End […]
The trailer for Marlon Williams: Ngā Ao E Rua – Two Worlds is out now! The documentary, edited by DEGANZ member Josh Yong and directed by Incubator alum Ursula Grace-Williams, is an intimate portrait of the musician as he records his first te reo Māori album, Te Whare Tīwekaweka. The film gives audiences insight into […]
Writer/director Pulkit Arora (DEGANZ) and his team are one of four selected for the Pan Asian Screen Collective’s (PASC) Episode One Redux Web Series Pilot Programme. He teamed up with Matilda Boese-Wong and Carrisse Utai’i for their project titled Strange Brew. Strange Brew’s log line: Devoted to a craft that the world treats as a […]