DEGANZ members swept up multiple awards at the New Zealand Television Awards on 22 November this year. After the Party, directed by Peter Salmon (DEGANZ), had a particularly successful night winning a record nine awards in total. Peter was acknowledged specifically, winning Screen Auckland’s Best Director for a Drama/Comedy Drama award. The show went on […]
Aotearoa feature films Tinā and The Moutain, edited by DEGANZ members Luke Haigh and Cushla Dillon respectively, are off to the 2025 Palm Springs International Film Festival! This year marks the 36th year of the festival showcasing work from around the world and bringing together filmmakers and film lovers alike. The festival is hosted by the Palm […]
Even though DEGANZ is beginning to wrap up for the year, our members are still dropping new work! Check out this list of new films and series to watch over the holiday period. From drama series to documentaries, there’s plenty of local mahi to keep us entertained until 2025. A Remarkable Place to Die Drama […]
Animated web series Classics Explained, directed by DEGANZ member Jo Luping (Incubator 2024), won Best Animated Web Series at the UK Online Web Fest in London this year with its episode on composer Sergei Rachmaninoff. The festival praised the series for its “creative brilliance and [how it] bring[s] characters to life in extraordinary ways.” The […]
PleasureDora, directed and edited by Mark Prebble (DEGANZ), is continuing its successful international festival run. In November, the sci-fi short screened at PÖFF Shorts in Talin, Estonia. It was aptly selected for the Night Cinema programme, showcasing a range of films where relationships are complex and isolation is crippling, but that every once in a […]