An exciting update of DEGANZ member Loren Taylor‘s directorial debut: The Moon is Upside Down won Best First Feature Film at the PÖFF Tallinn Black Night Film Festival! The film screened in the First Feature Competition, a collection of first features by promising global talents. The jury commented: The film is a bittersweet, multi-layered combination […]
Script to Screen announced the 2024/23 FilmUp participants, with five of the eight being DEGANZ members. Writer/directors Pulkit Arora, Ella Gilbert (Incubator 2023), Maza White, and Harry Wynn, with 2019 Incubator alum Anna Rose Duckworth, will partake in the six-month professional development and mentorship programme. FilmUp aims to aid filmmakers in taking the next step […]
Web series TransGenerations won Best Web Series at the Berlin Short Film Festival. The production’s core team is chock full of DEGANZ members, with Naashon Zalk as Producer and DOP, Jai Waite as Editor, and Ramon Te Wake as Executive Producer. Since its release, the series has screened in a plethora of festivals ranging from […]
NZ Web Fest announced the winners of this year’s festival, featuring podcasts, short films, and web series from local and international creatives. DEGANZ members heavily populated the selection lineup this year, with many of their projects going on to win awards. Well done to all members involved, and congratulations to the winners! Best Music Video, […]
Season two of Pax Assadi’s Raised by Refugees, with episodes directed by DEGANZ member Kate McGill, is out now! Kate has worked on the show from the get-go as the casting director and one of the series’ directors. Inspired by Assadi’s childhood, the show follows adolescent Pax as he navigates life in the early 2000s. […]