DEGANZ member Loren Taylor‘s directorial debut, The Moon is Upside Down is out now in cinemas across Aotearoa. The Kiwi dramedy follows the intersecting lives of three women as they each venture through unfamiliar landscapes, grappling with loneliness, isolation, and longing. Natalia, a mail-order bride from Siberia with dreams of running a cafe, arrives in […]
Emma Smart (DEGANZ) is set to edit the upcoming short film Homecoming, which is in the final week of its Boosted campaign. The team is only a few hundred away from their goal of $13,000 and needs a final push to make it over the line and receive the all-or-nothing funding. The film received Fresh […]
DEGANZ members Caroline Bell-Booth, Josh Frizzell, and Charlie Haskell are set to direct the new Queenstown-set detective series A Remarkable Place to Die. The name references the area’s renowned mountain range, The Remarkables. With four 90-minute episodes, the show will follow Anais Mallory when she returns to her hometown only to find a series of startling […]
This news piece contains references to sexual abuse. Please proceed with care. DEGANZ member Emma Patterson edited TVNZ’s new docu-drama, The Lost Boys of Dilworth. The hour-long special uncovers the extensive history of abuse within the Auckland all-boys school following the 2023 Dilworth Inquiry and the ongoing impacts on the victims’ lives. The inquiry revealed […]
TVNZ’s new drama series Testify, directed by DEGANZ members David Stubbs and Paula Whetu Jones, is out now. Paula was also one of the series’ writers alongside Gavin Strawhan. The big-budget series is chock full of drama, diving deep into the destructive power dynamics of an Evangelical megachurch based in Auckland. David, a charismatic youth […]