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Show Me Shorts Announces the DEGANZ Best Editor and Best Director for 2021

Congratulations are in order for the winners of the DEGANZ Best Director and DEGANZ Best Editor awards at the 2021 Show Me Shorts Film Festival. The award for Best Editor went to Peter Roberts and Dwayne Cameron for June. Isaac Bell took out…

Jan Oliver Lucks Signs with Top Talent Agency in the US

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Jan Oliver Lucks, DEGANZ member and director of the critically acclaimed documentary There Is No I in Threesome, has signed with ICM Partners, a Los Angeles based talent and literary agency with offices in New York, Washington D.C and London.…

NZIFF: Ashurst’s Snakeskin Returns in Retrospective to Honour Bill Gosden

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Snakeskin, directed by DEGANZ members Gillian Ashurst and co-edited by Cushla Dillon, returns to the big screen as part of a specially curated line-up of retrospective films to honour Bill Gosden, former director of Whānau Mārama: New Zealand…

It’s Time

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A couple of days ago on The Spinoff, South Pacific Pictures Managing Director Andrew Szusterman decried the loss of drama Head High from Discovery Three. Lead director and co-lead writer on the show is a DEGANZ member, Tim Worrall. Szusterman…

Hsu Edits Inked, Aotearoa’s First Funded Chinese-English Drama Series

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Edited by DEGANZ member Chia Chi Hsu, web series Inked is a milestone in Aotearoa's television history — our first funded Chinese bilingual drama. That may seem surprising given that Chinese have been in New Zealand since the 1860s, the first…

Gorman’s The Letting Go Granted Screen CanterburyNZ Funding

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Writer and director Nic Gorman (DEGANZ) has received funding towards his second feature film The Letting Go. Nic’s 2017 feature film Human Traces premiered at the prestigious Toronto International Film Festival. He hopes to shoot his next…

Story Camp Aotearoa to Develop Nine New Feature Films

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Congratulations to our members who have been selected to take part in this year’s Story Camp Aotearoa — director Max Currie with Refuge and documentary director Gwen Isaac with Siouxsie with an X. Story Camp is a development lab tailored…

Legal Advice for Screen Work at Alert Level 3 (Phase 3) in Auckland

COVID Corner, News

19th October 2021 ScreenSafe has been seeking clarity about the practical implications of Alert Level 3 (Phase 3) in Auckland. We have done an in-depth comparison of the available public guidance compared to the ScreenSafe COVID-19 Protocols…

Elected DEGANZ Board for 2021/2022

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Directors and Editors Guild of Aotearoa New Zealand is thrilled to present our board for 2021/2022. Members elected to the board at the 2021 Annual General Meeting are: Director Robyn Paterson, President Director Gabriel Reid, Vice-President Accountant…

A New Name for the Guild

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At the 2021 Annual General Meeting, members voted in favour of a remit to include Aotearoa in the Guild’s name. We proudly present our new name as the Directors and Editors Guild of Aotearoa New Zealand (DEGANZ). Subsequently, we have a…

Hawai’i International Film Festival: Members’ Films Selected

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Congratulations to DEGANZ members whose films have been selected for this year’s Hawai'i International Film Festival (HIFF) in November. Furthermore, several films will be having their US Premieres. Annually, an average of 150 narrative…

Kāinga Funded: Spotlight on Pan-Asian Female Immigrant Stories

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Following the success of feature films Waru and Vai comes Kāinga. With funding through NZ On Air, Kāinga will be an anthology of short films led by Pan-Asian filmmakers that celebrates the experience of eight different Pan-Asian women as they…

Live Performance and Film Collide in New Opera Movie

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DEGANZ member Rebecca Tansley directed the New Zealand Opera film Semele, which opens in selected cinemas from 28 October. Filmed live in Auckland’s Holy Trinity Cathedral, Rebecca had just one live performance to get the film right which…

DEGNZ Supports Call for COVID Relief Funding for Māori Screen Sector

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 12 October 2021 The Directors and Editors Guild of New Zealand (DEGNZ) supports the call by Ngā Aho Whakaari, who represents Māori in the screen industry, for direct COVID relief support for the Māori screen production…

The Blank Page

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I’ve been writing this blog for the DEGNZ newsletter for close to six years now. There have been a few times when I’ve been stuck for what to write about, but ultimately came through. But from memory there were two or three times when I…

Rūrangi and Creamerie Finalists in MIPCOM Diversify TV Excellence Awards

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In series successes, we wish to congratulate the cast and crews of Rūrangi and Creamerie for being nominated for the 2021 MIPCOM Diversify TV Excellence Awards. Directed by Max Currie (DEGNZ), Rūrangi is one of three finalists in the LGBTQIA+…

ScreenSafe Location Recce Guidance at Higher Alert Levels

COVID Corner, News

ScreenSafe has released location recce guidance after discussions with WorkSafe and Screen Auckland, and based on recommended guidelines from the Ministry of Health regarding limits on social gatherings in public places. These guidelines…

Show Me Shorts 2021: Nominees for Best Director and Best Editor

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Show Me Shorts Film Festival 2021 have announced the nominees for their annual Awards Ceremony. Seventeen short films were nominated across eight categories including Best Director and Best Editor. As proud sponsors of these awards, DEGNZ warmly…

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