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Coming Soon: ‘The Convert’ and ‘The Mountain’

Long-anticipated Kiwi features The Convert and The Mountain are coming to local cinema screens this March, both with DEGANZ members credited as editors. The Convert Edited by Luke Haigh (DEGANZ), The Convert comes out in Aotearoa on 14 March.โ€ฆ
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DEGANZ Members off to Story Camp

Four DEGANZ members have been selected for Script to Screen's 2024 Story Camp feature film lab. The lab fosters the craft, voice, and vision of the eight selected screenwriters or creative teams for the development of their feature film screenplays.โ€ฆ
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‘Teine’ and the Bonds that Bind Us

DEGANZ member Giselle Ilaoa celebrated the premiere of her debut short film Teine at the Third Culture Film Festival. The film screened as part of The Bonds that Bind Us programme, a collection of films with themes of putting family before oneself. Teineโ€ฆ
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Incubator Alumi’s Mahi at Melbourne Women in Film Festival

The Melbourne Women in Film Festival (MWFF) recognises Incubator alumni Mary-Lyn Chambers (2022) and Ella Gilbert (Rongowhakaata/Ngaฬ„ti Kahungunu) (2023) at this year's festival. Each year, MWFF celebrates women's stories on screen by facilitatingโ€ฆ
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A Dismal Failure By All Concerned

๏ปฟThe proposal by Warner Bros. Discovery to shut Newshub highlights the dismal failure past and present by successive New Zealand governments, bureaucracy and those in the screen sector to grasp the seismic changes that have flowed throughโ€ฆ
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‘Avatar: The Last Airbender’ is on Fire

Netflix's live-action adaptation of Avatar: The Last Airbender takes the number one ranking on the global streaming service, with 21.2 million views (so far!) this week alone. DEGANZ member Roseanne Liang is a series co-executive producer andโ€ฆ
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Maihi is a Berlinale Talent

DEGANZ member and 2017 Incubator alum Renae Maihi attended the 2024 Berlinale Talents Summit as a selected writer/director. Each year, the renowned Berlinale Film Festival hosts the talent development programme to foster the growth of the world'sโ€ฆ
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Songs of Praise for ‘Miles from Nowhere’

The new comedy-drama series Miles From Nowhere, directed by 2021 Incubator alum Ghazaleh Golbakhsh (DEGANZ) and co-edited by DEGANZ board member Ben Powdrell, dropped on 21 February to great praise. The show centres on Said, a young Kiwi-Muslimโ€ฆ
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Rupture Selects DEGANZ Members Currie and Tuiburelevu

Max Currie (DEGANZ) willย take part in Rupture, a new development programme for series writers. Additionally, fellow member Litia Tuiburelevu joins writer Coco Solid's team as a collaborator. The pilot programme aims to bring together powerfulโ€ฆ
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Day One Shorts (formerly Someday Stories) Selects Townsend’s ‘Wilbert Wire’

Day One Shorts (formerly Someday Stories) selected DEGANZ member Ricky Townsend's Wilbert Wire as one of the eight commissioned projects for 2024. Ricky is the project's writer/director and is joined by Ella Waswo (producer) and Joseph Chamsayโ€ฆ
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Missing in Action

Thereโ€™s a coalition government in power now whose focus is on the economy and righting what they see as the wrongs of the government before. I decided to go trawling to see if there was any hope for the arts, culture and heritage or theโ€ฆ
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Raman and Lawrence Plant the Seeds for Features

Congratulations to DEGANZ members Kishan Raman and Jamie Lawrence for being selected for the New Zealand Writer Guild's Seed Grant! They are two of six writers (out of 122 applications) to receive funds from the highly competitive grant,โ€ฆ
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DEGANZ Members at Mฤoriland

Many DEGANZ members' mahi have been selected to show during the 2024 Mฤoriland Film Festival! This year marks the biggest one yet for the festival with 168 films and video works from over 130 Indigenous nations. The festival will take placeโ€ฆ
Read more

Te Wake Celebrates Community in ‘The Boy, The Queen and Everything in Between’

DEGANZ member Ramon Te Wake's new series The Boy, The Queen and Everything in Between is out now. The series, co-directed, co-produced, and written by Ramon, follows Jacob, a young father fresh out of prison and in desperate need of a job.โ€ฆ
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‘PleasureDora’ Needs a Boost

Mark Prebble (DEGANZ) and theย PleasureDora team are crowdfunding $10,000 to finish post-production on the short film. The film questions meaningful connection in the age of AI and machine learning with the titular PleasureDora, a glitchyโ€ฆ
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The Cost of Screening

Greetings from DEGANZ for 2024! Currently overseas on a personal trip and headed back as I write this. Iโ€™ve had a couple of goes at this op-ed but still felt I wasnโ€™t getting the tone right. As I reflect back on what has passed andโ€ฆ
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DEGANZ Members Investigate ‘Black Coast Vanishings’

DEGANZ members dive into the mysterious disappearances in Piha with new true-crime docuseries, Black Coast Vanishings. Megan Jones (DEGANZ)ย co-directed the series with Candida Beveridge, while, board member Margot Francis was one of the editors.โ€ฆ
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Dillon Nominated for the Wฤ“tฤ FX Creative Technology Award

DEGANZ member Cushla Dillon is being recognised for her work as an editor with her nomination for the Wฤ“tฤ FX Creative Technology Award at this year's Women in Film & Television (WIFT) Awards. This award recognises outstanding achievementโ€ฆ
Read more

Coming Soon: ‘The Convert’ and ‘The Mountain’

Long-anticipated Kiwi features The Convert and The Mountain are coming to local cinema screens this March, both with DEGANZ members credited as editors. The Convert Edited by Luke Haigh (DEGANZ), The Convert comes out in Aotearoa on 14 March.โ€ฆ
Read more

DEGANZ Members off to Story Camp

Four DEGANZ members have been selected for Script to Screen's 2024 Story Camp feature film lab. The lab fosters the craft, voice, and vision of the eight selected screenwriters or creative teams for the development of their feature film screenplays.โ€ฆ
Read more

‘Teine’ and the Bonds that Bind Us

DEGANZ member Giselle Ilaoa celebrated the premiere of her debut short film Teine at the Third Culture Film Festival. The film screened as part of The Bonds that Bind Us programme, a collection of films with themes of putting family before oneself. Teineโ€ฆ
Read more

Incubator Alumi’s Mahi at Melbourne Women in Film Festival

The Melbourne Women in Film Festival (MWFF) recognises Incubator alumni Mary-Lyn Chambers (2022) and Ella Gilbert (Rongowhakaata/Ngaฬ„ti Kahungunu) (2023) at this year's festival. Each year, MWFF celebrates women's stories on screen by facilitatingโ€ฆ
Read more
View from the Top banner

A Dismal Failure By All Concerned

๏ปฟThe proposal by Warner Bros. Discovery to shut Newshub highlights the dismal failure past and present by successive New Zealand governments, bureaucracy and those in the screen sector to grasp the seismic changes that have flowed throughโ€ฆ
Read more

‘Avatar: The Last Airbender’ is on Fire

Netflix's live-action adaptation of Avatar: The Last Airbender takes the number one ranking on the global streaming service, with 21.2 million views (so far!) this week alone. DEGANZ member Roseanne Liang is a series co-executive producer andโ€ฆ
Read more

Maihi is a Berlinale Talent

DEGANZ member and 2017 Incubator alum Renae Maihi attended the 2024 Berlinale Talents Summit as a selected writer/director. Each year, the renowned Berlinale Film Festival hosts the talent development programme to foster the growth of the world'sโ€ฆ
Read more

Songs of Praise for ‘Miles from Nowhere’

The new comedy-drama series Miles From Nowhere, directed by 2021 Incubator alum Ghazaleh Golbakhsh (DEGANZ) and co-edited by DEGANZ board member Ben Powdrell, dropped on 21 February to great praise. The show centres on Said, a young Kiwi-Muslimโ€ฆ
Read more

Rupture Selects DEGANZ Members Currie and Tuiburelevu

Max Currie (DEGANZ) willย take part in Rupture, a new development programme for series writers. Additionally, fellow member Litia Tuiburelevu joins writer Coco Solid's team as a collaborator. The pilot programme aims to bring together powerfulโ€ฆ
Read more

Day One Shorts (formerly Someday Stories) Selects Townsend’s ‘Wilbert Wire’

Day One Shorts (formerly Someday Stories) selected DEGANZ member Ricky Townsend's Wilbert Wire as one of the eight commissioned projects for 2024. Ricky is the project's writer/director and is joined by Ella Waswo (producer) and Joseph Chamsayโ€ฆ
Read more
View from the Top banner

Missing in Action

Thereโ€™s a coalition government in power now whose focus is on the economy and righting what they see as the wrongs of the government before. I decided to go trawling to see if there was any hope for the arts, culture and heritage or theโ€ฆ
Read more

Raman and Lawrence Plant the Seeds for Features

Congratulations to DEGANZ members Kishan Raman and Jamie Lawrence for being selected for the New Zealand Writer Guild's Seed Grant! They are two of six writers (out of 122 applications) to receive funds from the highly competitive grant,โ€ฆ
Read more

DEGANZ Members at Mฤoriland

Many DEGANZ members' mahi have been selected to show during the 2024 Mฤoriland Film Festival! This year marks the biggest one yet for the festival with 168 films and video works from over 130 Indigenous nations. The festival will take placeโ€ฆ
Read more

Te Wake Celebrates Community in ‘The Boy, The Queen and Everything in Between’

DEGANZ member Ramon Te Wake's new series The Boy, The Queen and Everything in Between is out now. The series, co-directed, co-produced, and written by Ramon, follows Jacob, a young father fresh out of prison and in desperate need of a job.โ€ฆ
Read more

‘PleasureDora’ Needs a Boost

Mark Prebble (DEGANZ) and theย PleasureDora team are crowdfunding $10,000 to finish post-production on the short film. The film questions meaningful connection in the age of AI and machine learning with the titular PleasureDora, a glitchyโ€ฆ
Read more
View from the Top banner

The Cost of Screening

Greetings from DEGANZ for 2024! Currently overseas on a personal trip and headed back as I write this. Iโ€™ve had a couple of goes at this op-ed but still felt I wasnโ€™t getting the tone right. As I reflect back on what has passed andโ€ฆ
Read more

DEGANZ Members Investigate ‘Black Coast Vanishings’

DEGANZ members dive into the mysterious disappearances in Piha with new true-crime docuseries, Black Coast Vanishings. Megan Jones (DEGANZ)ย co-directed the series with Candida Beveridge, while, board member Margot Francis was one of the editors.โ€ฆ
Read more

Dillon Nominated for the Wฤ“tฤ FX Creative Technology Award

DEGANZ member Cushla Dillon is being recognised for her work as an editor with her nomination for the Wฤ“tฤ FX Creative Technology Award at this year's Women in Film & Television (WIFT) Awards. This award recognises outstanding achievementโ€ฆ
Read more