The Directors & Editors Guild of NZ, NZ On Air and Filthy Productions are thrilled to announce actor and director Abigail Greenwood as the TV Drama Director Attachment on the Filthy Rich TV series. “Impressed by the strength of Abigail’s application, we looked at attaching two directors to Dirty Laundry last year” said Steven Zanoski […]
As 2016 draws to a close it’s time to look back and prepare for 2017. First item on the agenda is my editorial of two weeks ago titled ‘It’s Up To You (Unfortunately)’. Some people mistook this to mean that the guild won’t go into bat for you when there are issues. Not true. I […]
KICKASS KIWI ACTION SHORT FILM ‘DO NO HARM’ SELECTED FOR PRESTIGIOUS SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 2017 A Kiwi-made action short film will have its World Premiere in January at the prestigious 2017 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. The festival received almost 9000 short film submissions from around the world, and Do No Harm was […]
In the past couple of weeks I have been contacted twice about director terms and conditions. The first was from a director who had worked on a number of projects that required out of town travel and no allowances were paid for per diems, accommodation or mileage for the use of a personal vehicle on […]
The Directors & Editors Guild of NZ (DEGNZ) is thrilled to announce Peter O’Donoghue as the recipient of our 2017 International Editor Mentorship with Oscar-nominated and Emmy Award-winning American documentary editor Doug Blush. “I’m thrilled at the prospect of working with someone as prolific and talented as Doug,” said O’Donoghue. “His output is gargantuan and […]