Submissions Open – Guild Table Reads

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Round Three 2016 – Apply Now!Guild Table Read

Bringing Writers Directors & Actors together for Table Reads.

A core cast – max. six actors – together with a writer & director team (OR writer/director) will collaborate on each script-in-development table read.
The script must have a director attached and have been through a development process.

Writer & Director: either/both must be a member(s) of NZWG/DEGNZ.
Actors must be a member of Equity to apply.

 

DEGNZ members and/or NZWG members are invited to apply for the script component:

Submit full-length draft feature film script to go into the draw for a day-long table read*

Four reads per year, Saturdays @ NZWG HQ
400C Great North Rd, Grey Lynn

Third Table Read: Saturday 5 November 2016 – 10am start

Script Submissions Deadline: Monday 10 October

WRITER/DIRECTORS or WRITER & DIRECTOR TEAMS – contact Guild HQ. Email: guildhq@nzwg.org.nz
ACTORS – Apply at Eventbrite

 

A Joint Initiative brought to you by:
NZWG, DEGNZ & EQUITY Foundation
With warm thanks to the New Zealand Film Commission

 

*Names remain for subsequent draws.

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Call for Applications: International Documentary Editing Mentorship with Doug Blush

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Doug BlushThe Directors & Editors Guild of NZ (DEGNZ) invites applications from mid-career editors with significant documentary experience to apply for an International Editor’s Mentorship with award-winning American editor Doug Blush.

Doug Blush is an award-winning director, producer, editor, writer and cinematographer who has worked on over fifty feature documentaries and TV programmes, and has been nominated five times for Best Editing at the Sundance Film Festival.

Doug’s recent credits include the Oscar-winning theatrical hit 20 Feet From Stardom, directed by Morgan Neville, which won him an ACE Eddie Award for Best Documentary Editing. Doug was editor and associate producer of 2012’s Academy Award nominated and double Emmy Award winning The Invisible War, directed by Kirby Dick, and worked with the same team on the Oscar-shortlisted film The Hunting Ground. His latest films as supervising editor include The Music of Strangers and Jim, which won the Audience Award at Sundance 2016 and aired on HBO.

He also co-directed Of Two Minds with wife Lisa Klein, which won both the 2013 EIC Prism and SAHMSA Voice Awards for excellence in films on mental health issues. He is working on a follow-up film with Lisa, The S Word, highlighting the rising activism of suicide survivors against silence and stigma.

Doug has been a visiting professor at the USC School of Cinematic Arts, Syracuse University and Malaysia Multimedia University, and has taught across Indonesia with the Sundance Institute.

This is an exciting opportunity for a New Zealand editor with proven talent to benefit from collegial advice and international support as they move to the next stage of their career. You need to be a FULL member of DEGNZ to apply.

Click here for a full list of Doug’s credits.

To apply, please provide:

  1. A maximum one-page letter about why you should be chosen and what you hope to gain from the mentorship.
  2. A CV.
  3. Up to 3 examples online of past work (not showreel).
  4. Your DEGNZ membership number.
  5. It is preferred that you have a project that you wish to discuss with Doug as part of the mentorship. Please include brief details on the project.

Only FULL DEGNZ members may apply. If you are not a member and wish to join, you can do so here: www.deganz.co.nz/join/
Applications should be submitted electronically to admin@deganz.co.nz no later than 5pm, Wednesday 12 October.

This initiative is brought to you with the support of the New Zealand Film Commission.

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DEGNZ Members Sweep Gaylene Preston Directors’ Award

Armagan Ballantyne, Alyx Duncan and Gillian Ashurst will each receive $25,000 to further their commitment to feature filmmaking.

Thirty applications were received for the award which was targeted at female directors who have made one feature film or have equivalent experience in TV, web series, documentary or drama.

As well as submitting a CV, show reel, reference from an industry peer and one-page statement about how they would use the award, the applicants were invited to a day-long workshop in July. The majority of applicants attended the workshop which gave filmmakers the opportunity to discuss together, and with Gaylene, their experiences and frustrations in the film industry.

“I was really keen that the application process be valuable to all involved, and the workshop enhanced this for me.  A peer group have identified each other and hopefully this was of creative value to all the directors involved,” says Preston.  “It was a great way for the NZFC to seriously engage with this group and the workshop kicked off the whole thing very positively.

The recipients of the award were decided by Preston, with input from fellow director, Alison Maclean. “I think you will agree that all these women have already demonstrated strong individual voices in dramatic feature filmmaking with first features that have put them on the international festival radar as ones to watch,” says Preston.

Armagan Ballantyne’s first feature, The Strength of Water, screened In Competition in the Berlin Film Festival’s Generation section.  She will use the Gaylene Preston Directors Award to further develop two feature scripts she wants to direct.

Alyx Duncan’s debut feature, The Red House won a number of awards and had a successful theatrical run at cinemas across New Zealand.  She followed this with animated short film, The Tide Keeper, which has garnered her even more awards and screened at festivals around the world.  She will use the Award to rent office space where she and her collaborators can develop the five feature projects Alyx is currently working on.

Gillian Ashurst’s first film, Snakeskin, premiered at the New Zealand International Film Festival in 2001 and was nominated for eleven New Zealand Film Awards.  Gillian will use the Award to get one of two feature projects she is developing into production within twelve months.

“I would like to be sitting in seat F24 at the Embassy Cinema and see films from all three of these women in the next few years,” says Preston.

”Worldwide, the film industry is focused on finding the next big thing and this award was pitched to women who may not be visible to the industry at large.  I think this process has shown that they are there and in significant numbers.”

A new scholarship will be introduced in 2017 and will focus on an area of the industry where female participation is low.  Feedback from guilds and industry organisations will be taken into consideration when deciding on future scholarship positions.

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Call for Applications: Drama Editing Masterclass with Dany Cooper

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Directors & Editors Guild of NZ invites you to apply for a 2-day Drama Editing Masterclass with multiple award-winning Australian editor Dany Cooper for up to 8 participants.

Dany Cooper is one of Australia’s best-known and respected film and television editors. This year, she has completed work on U.S. film Measure of a Man and is currently editing Breath, adapted from a book by Australian novelist Tim Winton, and directed by Simon Baker. Her recent editing credits also include Holding the Man, Chasing Satellites, Deadline Gallipoli, The Killing Field and Puberty Blues.

Dany won her first AFI Award in 1994 for the film Angel Baby. She was again nominated for an AFI in 1997 for The Well and in 2006 for Candy, starring Heath Ledger and Abbie Cornish, which also won Dany her first ASE Award. Amongst her list of accolades, Dany has also won an ASE Award for her work on Beneath Hill 60 and Oranges and Sunshine. She was also nominated for an ASE Award and won an AACTA Award for editing the 2012 film The Sapphires, which screened at Cannes, Melbourne, Telluride and other top international festivals. Internationally, Dany was nominated for a 2004 Emmy for TV series Battlestar Galactica.

The masterclass will be held across two days on Saturday and Sunday, 1 and 2 October in Auckland. Travel assistance will be available to some members coming from out of Auckland. Lunch will be provided each day.

All applicants must have a working knowledge of AVID edit systems.

Cost: DEGNZ members free, Non-members $100.
When: Saturday 1 October & Sunday 2 October, 9am – 5pm.
Where: Unitec, Auckland

To apply, please send your application in ONE PDF to tema@deganz.co.nz with ‘Dany Cooper Masterclass’ in the subject line.

In your application, please provide:

  • CV
  • links to samples of your work
  • a maximum one-page letter stating why you should be selected.

Application Deadline: Wednesday 14 September 2016, 5pm.

This initiative is brought to you with the support of the New Zealand Film Commission.

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David Coulson Runs Successful Workshop

Fresh from cutting Niko Caro’s The Zookeeper’s Wife, starring Jessica Chastain and Daniel  Bruhl, LA-based awarding-winning editor David Coulson ran a two-day Editing Drama Workshop for DEGNZ in Auckland. It was an intimate and highly personal insight into David’s editing philosophy and practice for the editors who attended.

 

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