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On the Podcast: Coming Home in the Dark with James Ashcroft & Annie Collins

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Last year, DEGANZ was joined by director James Ashcroft and editor Annie Collins to discuss why they worked so well together on New Zealand thriller Coming Home in the Dark, and why trusting each other was an important factor. Enjoy this largelyโ€ฆ
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We Are Still Here Trailer Released in Lead Up to NZIFF

The trailer for We Are Still Here was locally released on July 25, giving us a taste for this new, exciting film. The directorial team includes DEGANZ members Chantelle Burgoyne, Tim Worrall and board member Renae Maihi, along with Richard Curtis,โ€ฆ
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NZIFF: Masterclasses with Emmy-Award Winners Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine

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Film directors Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine (Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a Song) will lead a Masterclass for filmmakers in Auckland and Wellington as part of NZIFF 2022. NZIFF is delighted to welcome Dan and Dayna back to New Zealandโ€ฆ
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DEGANZ members invited to 2022 MIFF Accelerator Lab

Members Kath Akuhata-Brown and Bala Murali Shingade will soon head off to the MIFF Accelerator Lab at the Melbourne International Film Festival. Kath and Bala will be attending the Lab's programmes this August with the financial support of theโ€ฆ
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Our COVID Responsibilities

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Iโ€™ve been at three screen events in the last week where people close by are sniffing, coughing and doing it without masks. Why are they even there?! At our events and many others, organisers ask for people who have COVID-like symptoms,โ€ฆ
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Premiere Digital Acquires The Girl on the Bridge for Global Distribution

Premiere Digital, a digital media distributor, has acquired The Girl on the Bridge, directed by filmmaker Leanne Pooley (DEGANZ). Audiences worldwide can now rent or purchase the movie on digital platforms, such as iTunes, Amazon, Google Play,โ€ฆ
Read more

Membersโ€™ Films to Screen at Melbourne International Film Festival

Congratulations to multiple DEGANZ members whose work will be screened at the Melbourne International Film Festival this year, running from 4-28 August. Member Michelle Savillโ€™s comedy-drama Millie Lies Low will play to audiences. The filmโ€ฆ
Read more

Production Company Arts & Sciences Adds Michelle Savill

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Director Michelle Savill (DEGANZ) has signed with production company Arts & Sciences for US and UK commercial representation. Ecstatic, Michelle states, โ€œArts & Sciences understands that powerful storytelling is layered with nuance,โ€ฆ
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MSD Support to Retain, Retrain or Transition

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The Ministry of Social Development's Redeployment Support Service has been designed to help people at risk of job displacement by supporting them to retrain and retain their employment, or transition to new and appropriate employment or upskillingโ€ฆ
Read more

WIFT NZ 2022 Awards

Congratulations to our member Cian Elyse White (Te Arawa, Ngฤti Pikiao) for winning the SAE Award for Outstanding Newcomer and to Cushla Dillon (DEGANZ) for being a finalist for the Weta Group Creative Technology Award! Cian Elyse Whiteโ€ฆ
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Haere Rฤ Derek Wooster

Derek Wooster (Ngฤti Maniapoto, Ngฤti Tลซwharetoa, Ngฤti Maru, Te ฤ€tiawa) was a veteran television director and producer, serving on the board of DEGANZ from 2002 - 2005, including as Treasurer during that time. He started out in theatreโ€ฆ
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Jake Tabataโ€™s The Creature Boosted Campaign Opens Soon

Jake Tabata (DEGANZ) is making his directorial debut with horror, coming-of-age web series The Creature. To make this happen, he is holding a Boosted campaign to raise $9,000, kicking off on 18 July. The Creature follows Aidan, a young gayโ€ฆ
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Lynley Dodd Documentary Edited by Josh Yong

DEGANZ member Josh Yong has edited The Spinoffโ€™s recent documentary, Lynley Dodd: Writing the Pictures, Painting the Words. This piece invites viewers into the whimsical world of the beloved writer and illustrator of the Hairy Maclary childrenโ€™sโ€ฆ
Read more

ScreenSafe – Screen Industry Guidance – COVID-19 Protocols V4.0

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Friday 1 July 2022 This is a reminder to all of the New Zealand Screen Sector that the ScreenSafe COVID-19 Protocols are still in place to make sure you keep each other safe on set. We understand that it is tough keeping productions goingโ€ฆ
Read more

Being More Aussie

Undoubtedly obvious to many of you who read this column regularly, but for those who donโ€™t, Iโ€™ll point out that I monitor the happenings in the screen industry in Australia as one possible bellwether for New Zealandโ€™s screen sector. Aโ€ฆ
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Farewell Member Paul Grinder

Paul Grinder was a long-time member of DEGANZ, and a highly experienced Assistant Director, Second Unit Director and later Producer. I would occasionally see Paul at industry events between his long stints working locally or overseas, on filmsโ€ฆ
Read more

Vale Michael Hacking

Editor/director and DEGANZ member Michael Hacking died in March this year after a long battle with cancer. Michael came to New Zealand from England after leaving University. He was a good-looking young man with a quick wit and in 1970s Wellingtonโ€ฆ
Read more

On the Podcast: Budget Filmmaking and Queer Film Festival Directors Q&A

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Missed our live events in June? We've added two to The DEGANZ Podcast. Screenlink: Champagne Taste on a Beer Budget Writer/director Sam Kelly (Savage, Lambs), DOP Jess Charlton (Loimata, The Sweetest Tears) and DOP Richard Bluck NZCS (Blackโ€ฆ
Read more

On the Podcast: Coming Home in the Dark with James Ashcroft & Annie Collins

, ,
Last year, DEGANZ was joined by director James Ashcroft and editor Annie Collins to discuss why they worked so well together on New Zealand thriller Coming Home in the Dark, and why trusting each other was an important factor. Enjoy this largelyโ€ฆ
Read more

We Are Still Here Trailer Released in Lead Up to NZIFF

The trailer for We Are Still Here was locally released on July 25, giving us a taste for this new, exciting film. The directorial team includes DEGANZ members Chantelle Burgoyne, Tim Worrall and board member Renae Maihi, along with Richard Curtis,โ€ฆ
Read more

NZIFF: Masterclasses with Emmy-Award Winners Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine

,
Film directors Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine (Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a Song) will lead a Masterclass for filmmakers in Auckland and Wellington as part of NZIFF 2022. NZIFF is delighted to welcome Dan and Dayna back to New Zealandโ€ฆ
Read more

DEGANZ members invited to 2022 MIFF Accelerator Lab

Members Kath Akuhata-Brown and Bala Murali Shingade will soon head off to the MIFF Accelerator Lab at the Melbourne International Film Festival. Kath and Bala will be attending the Lab's programmes this August with the financial support of theโ€ฆ
Read more

Our COVID Responsibilities

,
Iโ€™ve been at three screen events in the last week where people close by are sniffing, coughing and doing it without masks. Why are they even there?! At our events and many others, organisers ask for people who have COVID-like symptoms,โ€ฆ
Read more

Premiere Digital Acquires The Girl on the Bridge for Global Distribution

Premiere Digital, a digital media distributor, has acquired The Girl on the Bridge, directed by filmmaker Leanne Pooley (DEGANZ). Audiences worldwide can now rent or purchase the movie on digital platforms, such as iTunes, Amazon, Google Play,โ€ฆ
Read more

Membersโ€™ Films to Screen at Melbourne International Film Festival

Congratulations to multiple DEGANZ members whose work will be screened at the Melbourne International Film Festival this year, running from 4-28 August. Member Michelle Savillโ€™s comedy-drama Millie Lies Low will play to audiences. The filmโ€ฆ
Read more

Production Company Arts & Sciences Adds Michelle Savill

,
Director Michelle Savill (DEGANZ) has signed with production company Arts & Sciences for US and UK commercial representation. Ecstatic, Michelle states, โ€œArts & Sciences understands that powerful storytelling is layered with nuance,โ€ฆ
Read more

MSD Support to Retain, Retrain or Transition

,
The Ministry of Social Development's Redeployment Support Service has been designed to help people at risk of job displacement by supporting them to retrain and retain their employment, or transition to new and appropriate employment or upskillingโ€ฆ
Read more

WIFT NZ 2022 Awards

Congratulations to our member Cian Elyse White (Te Arawa, Ngฤti Pikiao) for winning the SAE Award for Outstanding Newcomer and to Cushla Dillon (DEGANZ) for being a finalist for the Weta Group Creative Technology Award! Cian Elyse Whiteโ€ฆ
Read more

Haere Rฤ Derek Wooster

Derek Wooster (Ngฤti Maniapoto, Ngฤti Tลซwharetoa, Ngฤti Maru, Te ฤ€tiawa) was a veteran television director and producer, serving on the board of DEGANZ from 2002 - 2005, including as Treasurer during that time. He started out in theatreโ€ฆ
Read more

Jake Tabataโ€™s The Creature Boosted Campaign Opens Soon

Jake Tabata (DEGANZ) is making his directorial debut with horror, coming-of-age web series The Creature. To make this happen, he is holding a Boosted campaign to raise $9,000, kicking off on 18 July. The Creature follows Aidan, a young gayโ€ฆ
Read more

Lynley Dodd Documentary Edited by Josh Yong

DEGANZ member Josh Yong has edited The Spinoffโ€™s recent documentary, Lynley Dodd: Writing the Pictures, Painting the Words. This piece invites viewers into the whimsical world of the beloved writer and illustrator of the Hairy Maclary childrenโ€™sโ€ฆ
Read more

ScreenSafe – Screen Industry Guidance – COVID-19 Protocols V4.0

,
Friday 1 July 2022 This is a reminder to all of the New Zealand Screen Sector that the ScreenSafe COVID-19 Protocols are still in place to make sure you keep each other safe on set. We understand that it is tough keeping productions goingโ€ฆ
Read more

Being More Aussie

Undoubtedly obvious to many of you who read this column regularly, but for those who donโ€™t, Iโ€™ll point out that I monitor the happenings in the screen industry in Australia as one possible bellwether for New Zealandโ€™s screen sector. Aโ€ฆ
Read more

Farewell Member Paul Grinder

Paul Grinder was a long-time member of DEGANZ, and a highly experienced Assistant Director, Second Unit Director and later Producer. I would occasionally see Paul at industry events between his long stints working locally or overseas, on filmsโ€ฆ
Read more

Vale Michael Hacking

Editor/director and DEGANZ member Michael Hacking died in March this year after a long battle with cancer. Michael came to New Zealand from England after leaving University. He was a good-looking young man with a quick wit and in 1970s Wellingtonโ€ฆ
Read more

On the Podcast: Budget Filmmaking and Queer Film Festival Directors Q&A

, ,
Missed our live events in June? We've added two to The DEGANZ Podcast. Screenlink: Champagne Taste on a Beer Budget Writer/director Sam Kelly (Savage, Lambs), DOP Jess Charlton (Loimata, The Sweetest Tears) and DOP Richard Bluck NZCS (Blackโ€ฆ
Read more