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What’s Happening to Your Screen Tax Payer Dollars?

I was at the Screen Producers Australia โ€“ Screen Forever conference last week in Melbourne. An interesting issue was brought up by highly regarded independent Australian producer Trish Lake, who highlighted the fact that many of the primetimeโ€ฆ

Wherefore Art Thou Public Service Content Provider?

10 November 2016 New Zealand On Airโ€™s recent announcement of changes to its funding strategy and to a lesser extent the mooted desire of TVNZ to take over Freeview have brought discussion of public service broadcasting once again to theโ€ฆ

An Inspiration

26 October 2016 Itโ€™s been a helluva busy year, and Iโ€™ve been offshore more than once, the latest in October when former head of the Council of Trade Unions Helen Kelly died of lung cancer. I never met Helen Kelly. I only knew her fromโ€ฆ

Shakin’ It Up

29 September 2016 Last week I was at the No Borders Coproduction market in New York, which is part of IFP Film Week. Across 6 days I mixed with mainly American writers, directors and producers who were trying to get their narrative featuresโ€ฆ

What’s Happening?

Looking out my window I can see pohutukawa blossoms on my tree. Spring really is here. An interesting time to take the temperature on the industry, I thought. So I decided to ring around the other guilds and pose a simple question: Whatโ€™sโ€ฆ

Post Insights

This weekend DEGNZ is running a two-day workshop with award-winning film editor David Coulson. David has a working relationship with director Niki Caro that has seen him edit her last five films, including her latest The Zookeepers Wife, starringโ€ฆ

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.