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Cutting Through The Hype

Scrolling through my Facebook feed yesterday to catch up on industry news, a Stuff article caught my eye. โ€œCan Aotearoa make the screen the next primary industry?โ€ the hook headline blared. Diving into the article, I read that SIGANZโ€ฆ
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Show Me the Money

The standoff between the Australian Government and the global digital platforms has been a fascinating insight into the power the platforms, particularly Facebook, now hold. Australiaโ€™s News Media and Digital Platforms Mandatory Bargainingโ€ฆ
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The COVID Boomerang

With the vaccine within sight and just when we thought all we had to worry about was who was going to win the Americaโ€™s Cupโ€ฆ here we go again. Itโ€™s only through the news, our friends and other sources do we comprehend the horror ofโ€ฆ
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Welcome to 2021-A Year of Positive Uncertainty

Considering the significant impact of COVID on the entertainment industry, itโ€™s hard not to be pleased with the incredible amount of activity going on in the New Zealand screen industry right now. New Zealand is being seen as a good, safeโ€ฆ
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A Trying Year

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2020 has certainly been a trying year. We tried to run our professional development programme as we have done each year and the pandemic threw a spanner in the works. A shift to online worked for nearly every element of it. By moving online,โ€ฆ
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Round Up (not the weed killer)

With the Big Screen Symposium about to kick off tomorrow, itโ€™s yet another recent event at which to be thankful for, for our Governmentโ€™s response to COVID. We can gather in big numbers will little concern for the spread of the virus, whileโ€ฆ
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A Professional Life Well Lived

Itโ€™s with great sadness that I heard of the passing of New Zealand International Film Festival Director Bill Gosden. I knew Bill professionally but not personally, and always watched with great admiration the way he orchestrated NZIFF withโ€ฆ
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The Ultimate Disruptor

If you do a search on the Interweb, one of the definitions of a disruptor in business reads: To be a disruptor is to create a product, service, or way of doing things which displaces the existing market leaders and eventually replaces themโ€ฆ
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Director Ghazaleh Golbakhsh: How I Got Started in the Industry

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My family and I fled Iran for Aotearoa in the late 1980s due to war and an oppressive regime. As a six year old I was yelled at by teachers for not understanding English, so I set about reading and writing as much as I could to learn the language.โ€ฆ
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Screen Industry Workers Act Almost Upon Us

There has been a flurry of activity around the Screen Industry Workers Bill in the last month. On the 23rd of August the Bill had its second reading in the House. Then it went to the Committee of the Whole House on the 31st of August. Weโ€ฆ
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More Than I Can Eat in a Media Lunch

As if we didnโ€™t have enough on our plate with the Screen Industry Workers Bill, the Reform of Vocational Education, The Screen Sector Investment Review, and an NZFC still in managerial stagnancy sans a permanent CEO (David Strong has resignedโ€ฆ
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Editor Luka Turjak: How I Got Started in the Industry

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I joined a childrenโ€™s choir just after my 3rd birthday. That was in Yugoslavia, Zagreb, in 1983. Choir defined me as a person. Iโ€™ve learned early on we are all individuals with different needs, wants and perception, so listening is oftenโ€ฆ
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Our COVID Responsibilities

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Iโ€™ve been at three screen events in the last week where people close by are sniffing, coughing and doing it without masks. Why are they even there?! At our events and many others, organisers ask for people who have COVID-like symptoms,โ€ฆ
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Being More Aussie

Undoubtedly obvious to many of you who read this column regularly, but for those who donโ€™t, Iโ€™ll point out that I monitor the happenings in the screen industry in Australia as one possible bellwether for New Zealandโ€™s screen sector. Aโ€ฆ
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ANZSE Career Spotlights

Read about the illustrious careers of ANZSE-accredited editors.

A Kลrero With…

In this guest blog series, we speak to screen professionals to find out more about their job and what most people might not know, including those working in the industry. This blog offers an inside look into different parts of the industry and offers insights into how directors and editors can be successful in the collaborative process of their mahi.

How I Got Started in the Industry

In this guest blog series, our members reflect on how they made their way into assistant editing, editing, and directingโ€”with no two stories the same. They offer advice for those starting out.