DEGANZ Member Ahmed Osman’s short film, Arrival, has won the 2026 Spirit of the Civic Award at NZIFF. Along with the accolade, Ahmed will receive a $4,000 cash prize. Filmed in part at the Mangere Refugee Resettlement Centre, the film follows a mother and daughter as they settle into their life in Aotearoa as refugees. […]
This week, we’ve got seven DEGANZ members on our watchlist, with new drama series, ad campaigns, and docuseries to watch. First up is the hit crime drama A Remarkable Place to Die Season 2 trailer, with DEGANZ members Peter Burger, Victoria Boult, and Emmett Skilton having directed this season. Fellow member David de Lautour’s new […]
The 2026 finalists for the Misty Flicks Film Festival have been announced, including films from four DEGANZ members! This year, the Misty Flicks Film Festival received more than double the number of entries it did in 2025. With submissions from filmmakers across the motu, this year brought incredible diversity, creativity, and a range of filmmaking […]
DEGANZ is proud to announce the seven filmmakers from Aotearoa New Zealand attending the 2026 Melbourne International Film Festival’s (MIFF) Accelerator Lab. Directors Todd Karehana, Ahmed Osman, Prisca Bouchet, and Nick Mayow all have shorts selected for the MIFF Accelerator Shorts programmes, also earning them spots at the Accelerator Lab. The shorts programme showcases new bold voices from […]
DEGANZ member Roseanne Liang is set to direct the upcoming drama Queenstown, alongside Australian director Glendyn Ivin. The eight-part series is the first production commissioned by the Netflix Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) content team since its establishment in 2020. While set and produced in Aotearoa New Zealand, the series is headed by Australian production […]