DEGANZ member Giselle Ilaoa celebrated the premiere of her debut short film Teine at the Third Culture Film Festival. The film screened as part of The Bonds that Bind Us programme, a collection of films with themes of putting family before oneself. Teine focuses on the dutiful eldest daughter within a Samoan household. With the […]
The Melbourne Women in Film Festival (MWFF) recognises Incubator alumni Mary-Lyn Chambers (2022) and Ella Gilbert (Rongowhakaata/Ngāti Kahungunu) (2023) at this year’s festival. Each year, MWFF celebrates women’s stories on screen by facilitating the participation of women and gender-diverse creatives and audiences. Mary-Lyn’s Karanga is one of two films to open the festival. The 17-minute […]
Netflix’s live-action adaptation of Avatar: The Last Airbender takes the number one ranking on the global streaming service, with 21.2 million views (so far!) this week alone. DEGANZ member Roseanne Liang is a series co-executive producer and one of four directors, with fans and critics alike agreeing that her episodes are some of the season’s […]
DEGANZ member and 2017 Incubator alum Renae Maihi attended the 2024 Berlinale Talents Summit as a selected writer/director. Each year, the renowned Berlinale Film Festival hosts the talent development programme to foster the growth of the world’s top emerging filmmakers. Participants attend The Summit in Berlin for a week of discipline-specific workshops, talks with acclaimed […]
The new comedy-drama series Miles From Nowhere, directed by 2021 Incubator alum Ghazaleh Golbakhsh (DEGANZ) and co-edited by DEGANZ board member Ben Powdrell, dropped on 21 February to great praise. The show centres on Said, a young Kiwi-Muslim songwriter in the middle of a crisis. His fiance left him, his career’s non-existent, and his mum […]