Moas Announces Nominees

The Rialto Channel NZ Film Awards, aka the Moas, has announced the nominees for 2017. Up for consideration are 19 drama features, 9 documentary features and 12 short films. We are particularly excited to see so many DEGNZ members being recognised for their work. A massive congrats to all our members and best of luck!

 

DEGNZ MEMBER HIGHLIGHTS:

DOCUMENTARY

Best Documentary Editor
Francis Glenday (POI E)
Simon Coldrick (Tickled)
Tim Woodhouse (25 April)

Best Documentary Director
Leanne Pooley (25 April)

Best Doco
25 April
Tickled
POI E: The Story of Our Song

 

FEATURES

Best Film
Hunt for the Wilderpeople
Mahana
The Rehearsal

Best Editor
Luke Haigh (Hunt for the Wilderpeople; Turbo Kid)
Tom Eagles (Hunt for the Wilderpeople)
Jonno Woodford-Robinson (The Rehearsal; Mahana)

Best Television Feature
Bombshell (Ed. Bryan Shaw)
Venus and Mars (Ed. Bryan Shaw)
Jean (Dir. Rob Sarkies, Ed. Peter Roberts)
How to Murder Your Wife (Ed. Bryan Shaw)

Best Self Funded Film
Stars in Her Eyes (Dir. Athina Tsoulis)
The Great Maiden’s Blush (Prod. Isobel Mebus & Jeremy Macey, Ed. Annie Collins)

 

SHORT FILM 

Best Short Film 
Madam Black (Dir. Ivan Barge)
Wait (Dir. Yamin Tun)
Linda’s List (Dir. Angela Bloomfield)
Feeder (Ed. Jonno Woodford-Robinson)

Best Self-funded Short Film
Every Moment (Dir. Gabriel Reid)
Accidents, Blunders and Calamities (Dir. James Cunningham)
Food For Thought (Ed. Annie Collins, starring Nathalie Boltt)

Best Short Film Actress 
Angela Bloomfield (Linda’s List)

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Holiday Viewing – Check Us Out on Youtube

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Finally got some free time over the holiday season? Revisit or catch up on some of our guild events from the year on our DEGNZ Channel, which is currently live. Here’s a small selection you might like:

– Film Talk: Q&A with Geoff Murphy on his seminal Goodbye Pork Pie.
– The Collaborators Series: Lee Tamahori and Robin Scholes – From Once Were Warriors to Mahana
– DEGNZ Selects: In conversation with Niki Caro
– and more!

We’ll be adding more vids in 2017 so make sure you subscribe.

 

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Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays

From the team here at DEGNZ, we wish you and your loved ones a very Merry Christmas and a fantastic festive season. Thank you for all your support during 2016.

Our office will be closed from 23 December until Monday 9 January.
We look forward to seeing you in 2017 for another great year!

 

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DEGNZ Board Member’s Short for 2017 Sundance

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 one of the 68 selected. The film is the first and only New Zealand film to be selected for this year’s Sundance line-up, and is in good company with the short film directorial debut of Kristen Stewart.

Kiwi-Chinese screenwriter and director Roseanne Liang has made the jump from comedy webseries ( Flat3, Friday Night Bites ) and romantic comedies (My Wedding and Other Secrets ) to kickass Hong Kong-style action in this latest film.

Produced by Hamish Mortland, and executive produced by Tim White (who also exec produced the Richie McCaw doc o Chasing Great, The Dark Horse, and the upcoming Pork Pie), the film was funded through the Premiere Pathways Fund of the New Zealand Film Commission, a fund specifically for short ‘proof-of-concept’s for feature projects. The team hopes to leverage the success of the short film prequel to attract interest in an associated action fe ature film project called B lack Lotus.

Hong Kong actress Marsha Yuan stars with Jacob Tomuri, a Kiwi actor who is perhaps best known as the stunt performer for Tom H ardy in b lockbuster hits T he Reven ant, Legend and Mad Max: Fury Road. Jacob takes on both stunt and acting duties in the film, where he plays a blue-collar hitman tasked with finishing a job.

http://www.sundance.org/blogs/news/short-film-program-announced-for-2017-festival

INFO IN SHORT:

Title: Do No Harm
Synopsis: 3am. 1980s Hongjing. In an aging private hospital, a single-minded surgeon is forced to break her physician’s oath when violent gangsters storm in to stop a crucial operation.

Written and directed by ROSEANNE LIANG (Flat3, Friday Night Bites, My Wedding and Other Secrets)
Produced by HAMISH MORTLAND
Executive Produced by TIM WHITE (Pork Pie, Chasing Great, The Dark Horse)
Starring MARSHA YUAN & JACOB TOMURI (Kiwi Actor, Stunt performer for Tom Hardy in The Revenant, Legend, Mad Max: Fury Road)

 

ENDS

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Albol Leads Illuminating Workshop on Being Cinematic

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It was an honour to have one of our country’s best cinematographers Alun Bollinger lead our last workshop of 2016. Albol provided plenty of insights and food for thought on ‘Being Cinematic’ for the directors and editors who attended.IMG_2792IMG_2805

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