DEGANZ members Dan Eady and Tyler Redmond received kudos at this year’s New Zealand Cinematographers Society’s (NZSC) Cinematography Awards. NZSC created the festival in 2016 as a way for cinematographers’ mahi in Aotearoa to be evaluated and recognised to help boost their profiles and progress their careers. With a variety of categories from music videos […]
Six DEGANZ Members have their projects nominated for awards at this year’s Vision Feast. Vision Feast is an annual short film and music video festival that acknowledges filmmakers with a creative passion, technical skills, and what they call a ‘stroke of madness’. The festival accepts both domestic and international submissions. This year’s international entries are from […]
Sasha Rainbow (DEGANZ) has won the Dark Matter Jury Award for Best Director at the 2024 Brooklyn Horror Film Festival for her film Grafted. The feature follows Wei, a brilliant but disfigured Chinese scholarship student who is shunned by her classmates at a prestigious New Zealand university. She decides to achieve the popularity she desperately […]
Kim Webby (DEGANZ) has been selected to participate in the 2024/2025 Strength in Numbers programme, run by Script to Screen. Over a series of workshops run by Script to Screen and led by David Court, Strength in Numbers participants are given the time and tools they need to make strategic and sustainable choices for their creative enterprises. […]
The Moon is Upside Down, written and directed by DEGANZ member Loren Taylor, has won the Special Jury Award for Narrative Feature at the 2024 Santa Fe International Film Festival. The film follows three women as they navigate an unfamiliar landscape and the contours of the human heart. First, there’s Natalia, a duped mail-order bride. Then, […]