We’re having a Young Creators hang-out on the last Wednesday of the month! We are stoked to have David de Lautour (Westside‘s Ted West) in to share on his experiences as co-creator and director of Plus6Four Entertainment’s binge-worthy web series Alibi.
David is also a director on Westside this season. Find out David’s advice to other filmmakers looking to create high-quality, local web series that furtherย their careers.
Alibi is a six-part TVNZ OnDemand series where each episode shows the questioning of a suspect in the murder of a 17-year-old girl. Viewers get the fun of figuring out who’s responsible by choosing which order they watch the interviews.
There will be time for audience questions and the bar will be open. We’ll be out on the Sun Deck catching the last of summer. See you there!
WHEN: Wed 27 March 2019, 6:30pm. Talk starts 6:45pm WHERE: Longroom – Sun Deck, 114 Ponsonby Road, Auckland
In the rural NZ community of Awatahi, a 17-year-old girl has been murdered. #WhoKilledJodieHunter #WhatsYourAlibiSave Alibi to your favourites now โ bit.ly/AlibiOD
DEGNZ members โ Free Non-members โ $5 (cash at the door)
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DEGNZ Young Creatorsย is a programme of events with a mission to inform and inspire younger or emerging directors and editors to build successful, sustainable careers in the screen industry.
The Rehearsal & Performance series provides regular opportunities for directors and actors to practise their craft. Each workshop brings in an experienced moderator to guide participants as they explore a workshop scene in groups (one director, two actors) in a safe and non-pressured environment.
DEGNZ is pleased to announce Jackie van Beek for the first Rehearsal & Performance in 2019.
When: Sat 6 April, 9am โ 2pm Where: MTG RM, 2 Kingsland Tce, Kingsland, Auckland
Moderator
Jackie van Beek is a New Zealand actor/writer/director. As an actor she is best known for her role as the desperate familiar in Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clementโs vampire documentary, What We Do in the Shadows, inept television producer, Pauline, in TV3s Funny Girls and the straight-talking Gloria in Australiaโs Channel 7 show 800 Words.
Her first feature film, The Inland Road, premiered in competition at the 2017 Berlin Film Festival. Her second feature film The Breaker Upperers (created with co-writer/director/actor Madeleine Sami) premiered to rave reviews at SXSW, opened the Sydney Film Festival and recently sold to Netflix US. Jackie is a director on television spin-offs Wellington Paranormal (NZ) and What We Do in the Shadows (US) and is currently in post-production on Educators, an improvised comedy she co-created with Jesse Griffin and Jonny Brugh for TVNZ OnDemand.
Preparation
Selected directors and actors will be expected to do some script prep beforehand. DEGNZ will provide the scene at least one week in advance.
Register your interest
Registrations close Sunday 24 March.
Spots are limited to four directors and eight actors. If your name is selected, DEGNZ will contact you directly to confirm your participation. Only members of DEGNZ and Equity NZ are eligible to register.
Join DEGNZ and SPADA on March 13 for a relaxed evening with guests directorย David Stubbs and producer Richard Fletcher.
David and Richard will share on the trials and tribulations, plusses and pleasures of making Kiwi musical Daffodils. The film had its world premiere on Valentine’s Day at the Embassy Theatre in Wellington, and opens in NZ cinemas on March 21.
WHEN:ย ย Wed 13 March, 6PM WHERE:ย Random Group – The Hub, 43 Hanson Street, Mt Cook, Wellington
Drinks BYO
DEGNZ / SPADA members โ Free Non-members โ $5 koha appreciated
A joint event between the Directors and Editors Guild of NZ and the Screen Production and Development Association of NZ.ย
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DEGNZ is pleased to be able to offer the Women Filmmakers Incubator for a third year in 2019. We now welcome applications from female directors to be a part of this programme.
Background
The overall vision of the DEGNZ Women Filmmakers Incubator is to empower the participating directors with the confidence, knowledge and connections that they can use to go on and direct a feature film, drama or scripted series.
The Incubator is intended primarily for emerging debut directors of feature film (drama or documentary), but will also consider those wishing to establish careers in TV drama and scripted content.
Applicants must apply with a project, but the Incubator is primarily focused on filmmaker development, not project development.
The objectives of the Incubator are:
Improve writers and/or directorsโ understanding of the business of film and television drama.
Increase the number of women directing features and TV drama.
Connect producers, broadcasters and funders with female directors with a view to getting more female-centric stories into and through development.
Create networking opportunities for women directors to further their projects and careers.
Inspire and encourage women directors to passionately pursue feature film and drama directing careers through interaction with successful women who serve as role models.
The Incubator comprises five one-day workshops across an approximate 12-month period with the first scheduled to take place in March 2019.
The workshops are individually themed to provide specific knowledge, networks, skills, and inspiration that enable participants to advance themselves and their careers.
The DEGNZ Women Filmmakers Incubator in 2018.
Eligibility
All applicants will be expected to have a good level of directing experience with scripted content such as acclaimed web series, shorts with festival success, TV commercials, or broadcast content.
Applicants must:
Have an active project (feature film, documentary feature, telefeature, TV or web drama or scripted series) in development that has NEVER been presented to a broadcaster or funder. It is preferable that the project is at least at first draft script, but if not available there must be a detailed treatment for the project.
Have experience as a director of scripted content (drama, comedy) or documentary in the form of the project they are submitting, i.e. if you are applying with a narrative drama project, you must have experience directing narrative drama or if itโs comedy, experience directing comedy, etc.
For feature film, be a debut director.
Be available to participate in all workshops.
Application & Selection Process
A selection panel comprising DEGNZ board members and senior industry practitioners will shortlist candidates. Shortlisted candidates must be available for a one-on-one interview either in person or via Skype to be held around the end of February/early March 2019.
If shortlisted, you will be expected to immediately supply prior to the interview a detailed treatment of your project (different to your 1-page synopsis). The treatment needs to be within a minimum of 5-pages to a maximum of 10-pages.
Decisions will be final and no correspondence will be entered into. The Incubator participants will be selected from the shortlist following the interviewโgetting an interview does not imply that you have been selected for the Incubator.
Every Incubator participant must be a Full DEGNZ member for the full duration of the Incubator course.
The workshops will be held in Auckland. A travel allowance will be available for those successful applicants coming from other regions.
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Director Robyn Paterson and Terrance Wallace, founder of the InZone Project, share on the process of making their 2018 feature documentary In The Zone.ย The film follows Terrance’s journey to establish first a home for minority teens in New Zealand’s most sought after school zone, and then in his own community back in Chicago with political and racial tensions rising in the USA.
Throughout its powerful narrative, In The Zone raises poignant questions about education, privilege, diversity, and cycles of inequality across the Western world.
“You are pulling people together and having to get the trust and build the trust with people from really different walks of life, really different ends of the political spectrum, different ends of the socio-economic spectrum. For me, as a filmmaker, I think my biggest job was building those relationships.” – Robyn Paterson
This event was part of the Film Talk Series, presented by DEGNZ and Rialto Cinemas in Auckland.
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