South by South West (SXSW) Sydney announced the first four short films selected for the festival this year, with Vivie written and directed by 2021 Incubator alum Hweiling Ow (DEGANZ) set to premiere. It follows a sexually frustrated young woman who is desperate to persuade her vagina to open up when she bumps into an […]
TVNZ’s newest anthology series, Motherhood, drops this Mother’s Day, with mahi from DEGANZ members Michelle Ang (2020 Incubator), Jack Brown, Ankita Singh, and Calvin Sang. The series features five different stories across a range of genres and is inspired by the Māori, Pasifika, Pan-Asian, and LGBTIA+ communities of Aotearoa, all unified by the theme of […]
Script to Screen announced the three films selected for the 2024 Kōpere Hou – Fresh Shorts fund. DEGANZ member and current Incubator participant Jo Luping is attached as director for the animated drama I Duok om I Bohuntung – The Owl and the Rainbow. Kōpere Hou Fresh Shorts is a short film fund offering development […]
DEGANZ members Gal Hochman, Gwen Lin, Ashley Pitman, and Isabelle Hoskyn are in the 2024 cohort of PASC’s Short Cuts Lab. Gal and Gwen have been selected as the writer/directors of their projects Lure and The Food Baby, respectively. Ashley is joining PASCies Charisse Uy and Raul Sharma as the director of Phoenix. DEGANZ’s own […]
Bottle Money, written and directed by Rebekah Tyler (DEGANZ), won the Audience Choice Award for best short film at the 24th Beverly Hills Film Festival (BHFF). The film stars Rebekah’s son Jack Tyler as 16-year-old Nelson who protects his siblings from the chaos of their unstable mum. He must decide how much longer he can […]