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Flamingo and The Old Man On the Island

November Film Talks: Flamingo and The Man On the Island

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Flamingo The first film for the month, Flamingo, a New Zealand comedy-drama, that asks the questionโ€ฆ what would you do if you were stuck on a rooftop with a stranger for a weekend? Weโ€™re excited to be joined by director Richard Riddifordโ€ฆ
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2020 Screen Guilds Christmas Parties

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Members come celebrate with the screen guilds and associations at our annual Christmas get-togethers! RSVP essential. Partners welcome. Auckland - Wed 25 November, 6pm RSVP now Wellington - Wed 9 December, 6pm RSVP now Christchurchโ€ฆ
Read more
DEGNZ Workflow Best Practice Guide for Editors & Producers

The Ultimate Disruptor

If you do a search on the Interweb, one of the definitions of a disruptor in business reads: To be a disruptor is to create a product, service, or way of doing things which displaces the existing market leaders and eventually replaces themโ€ฆ
Read more
NZ On Air logo and NZFC logo

Have Your Say: Premium Productions for International Audiences Fund

Tฤ“nฤ koe, The New Zealand Film Commission has issued a document for consultation on the Premium Productions for International Audiences fund ($50 million premium drama fund) across FY21-FY22, which is designed to support the productionโ€ฆ
Read more
Rob Sarkies looking through a camera on setMatt Grace Photography

Directors Toolkit with Rob Sarkies – South Island

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DEGNZ is excited to present a workshop with director Rob Sarkies for South Island-based directors on November 28 โ€“ 29. Rob will outline his process and encourage participants to develop processes specific to them. About Rob Sarkies Wellington-based,โ€ฆ
Read more

The Show Me Shorts 2020 Best Editor and Best Director

Our congratulations goes out to Show Me Shorts winners Dylan Pharazyn, winner of the DEGNZ Best Editor award for the music video Career by Wax Chattels, and Isaac Knights-Washbourn, who was awarded the DEGNZ Best Director award for Money Honey. Stuckโ€ฆ
Read more
A woman adjusts her hair as a man stands in the backgroundยฉ Kezia Barnett, The Kezia Library

Directing In the Intimate Zone – Wellington

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DEGNZ invites directors to join us for a one-day Wellington workshop, taught by Jennifer Te Atamira Ward-Lealand, on best practices for directing on-screen intimacy. Inย Directing In the Intimate Zone, we will discuss and work with actors onโ€ฆ
Read more
DEGNZ Workflow Best Practice Guide for Editors & Producers

What in the World is Happening with Film

The world of film continues to be shaken up both at home and abroad. The only thing thatโ€™s clear is that streaming is here to stay and picking up steam. Disney is just undertaking an entire reorganisation of its business to put streamingโ€ฆ
Read more
Baby Done and Reunion

Baby Done and Reunion October Film Talks

,
We have two more great Film Talks happening in the month of October in association with Rialto Cinemas. Baby Done First up, Kiwi comedy Baby Done hits cinemas on 22 October. Director Curtis Vowell and writer Sophie Henderson will be in attendanceโ€ฆ
Read more
DEGNZ Workflow Best Practice Guide for Editors & Producers

Table Read Round 3 Opens

,
The 3rd round of the 2020 Table Reads opens today. Open to writer-director teams and solo writer/directors from around Aotearoa who are members of DEGNZ and the New Zealand Writers Guild. Enter the draw with your feature film script and youโ€ฆ
Read more

Film Talk: We Need to Talk About A.I.

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An exciting Q&A screening is coming up on the DEGNZ calendar this October in Auckland. On Thursday 15 October, Director Leanne Pooley's We Need to Talk About A.I. will screen at 6pm at Rialto Cinemas Newmarket. We Need to Talk Aboutโ€ฆ
Read more
DEGNZ Workflow Best Practice Guide for Editors & Producers

Much to Celebrate

We are in the midst of election turmoil both here and in the United States. Pork barrel politics are in full swing here with promises from all sides intended to sway voters. We are fortunate, though, that the Arts has already receivedโ€ฆ
Read more

Show Me Shorts 2020: Best Director & Best Editor Nominees

DEGNZ is again a proud sponsor of the Best Director and Best Editor awards at Show Me Shorts Film Festival this year (October 2 - 28). Our warmest congratulations toย the 2020 nominees! We look forward to celebrating the award winners at theโ€ฆ
Read more
Director attachments on Vegas: Tim Worrall and Cian Elyse White

Directors Tim Worrall and Cian Elyse White Attach to Vegas

,
DEGNZ members Tim Worrall and Cian Elyse White have attached to new drama series Vegas with Greenstone TV under the Guildโ€™s TV Drama Director Attachment Scheme. Both attachments will get to follow their director from prep onwards, untilโ€ฆ
Read more
DEGNZ Workflow Best Practice Guide for Editors & Producers

COVID-19 Membership Holiday Extension

,
At the Directors & Editors Guild of NZ, we have decided to extend our COVID-19 Membership Holiday scheme until 31 January 2021 to support NZ directors, editors and assistant editors who have lost work and are facing financial hardship dueโ€ฆ
Read more
Vista Foundation & Home and Family Counselling logos

Vista Foundation and Home & Family Counselling Offer Extended

,
Counselling support for members of the New Zealand film industry is set to continue until the end of November 2020, thanks to The Vista Foundation and Home & Family Counselling. DEGNZ members can access up to 5 one-hour subsidised counsellingโ€ฆ
Read more
DEGNZ Workflow Best Practice Guide for Editors & Producers

Everything You Wanted to Know About Digital Workflow but Were Too Afraid to Ask

DEGNZ has collaborated with industry to produce the DEGNZ Workflow Best Practice Guide for Editors and Producers. This online resource, available on the DEGNZ website under Resources, covers the full production Workflow, from before budgetingโ€ฆ
Read more
DEGNZ Workflow Best Practice Guide for Editors & Producers

The Interminable Wait

There are a few key unresolved issues in our sector and we are sitting on our hands waiting for action. The transformation of TVNZ into a proper public broadcaster is one. Then thereโ€™s the Screen Industry Worker Bill that will allow contractorsโ€ฆ
Read more
Flamingo and The Old Man On the Island

November Film Talks: Flamingo and The Man On the Island

,
Flamingo The first film for the month, Flamingo, a New Zealand comedy-drama, that asks the questionโ€ฆ what would you do if you were stuck on a rooftop with a stranger for a weekend? Weโ€™re excited to be joined by director Richard Riddifordโ€ฆ
Read more

2020 Screen Guilds Christmas Parties

,
Members come celebrate with the screen guilds and associations at our annual Christmas get-togethers! RSVP essential. Partners welcome. Auckland - Wed 25 November, 6pm RSVP now Wellington - Wed 9 December, 6pm RSVP now Christchurchโ€ฆ
Read more
DEGNZ Workflow Best Practice Guide for Editors & Producers

The Ultimate Disruptor

If you do a search on the Interweb, one of the definitions of a disruptor in business reads: To be a disruptor is to create a product, service, or way of doing things which displaces the existing market leaders and eventually replaces themโ€ฆ
Read more
NZ On Air logo and NZFC logo

Have Your Say: Premium Productions for International Audiences Fund

Tฤ“nฤ koe, The New Zealand Film Commission has issued a document for consultation on the Premium Productions for International Audiences fund ($50 million premium drama fund) across FY21-FY22, which is designed to support the productionโ€ฆ
Read more
Rob Sarkies looking through a camera on setMatt Grace Photography

Directors Toolkit with Rob Sarkies – South Island

,
DEGNZ is excited to present a workshop with director Rob Sarkies for South Island-based directors on November 28 โ€“ 29. Rob will outline his process and encourage participants to develop processes specific to them. About Rob Sarkies Wellington-based,โ€ฆ
Read more

The Show Me Shorts 2020 Best Editor and Best Director

Our congratulations goes out to Show Me Shorts winners Dylan Pharazyn, winner of the DEGNZ Best Editor award for the music video Career by Wax Chattels, and Isaac Knights-Washbourn, who was awarded the DEGNZ Best Director award for Money Honey. Stuckโ€ฆ
Read more
A woman adjusts her hair as a man stands in the backgroundยฉ Kezia Barnett, The Kezia Library

Directing In the Intimate Zone – Wellington

,
DEGNZ invites directors to join us for a one-day Wellington workshop, taught by Jennifer Te Atamira Ward-Lealand, on best practices for directing on-screen intimacy. Inย Directing In the Intimate Zone, we will discuss and work with actors onโ€ฆ
Read more
DEGNZ Workflow Best Practice Guide for Editors & Producers

What in the World is Happening with Film

The world of film continues to be shaken up both at home and abroad. The only thing thatโ€™s clear is that streaming is here to stay and picking up steam. Disney is just undertaking an entire reorganisation of its business to put streamingโ€ฆ
Read more
Baby Done and Reunion

Baby Done and Reunion October Film Talks

,
We have two more great Film Talks happening in the month of October in association with Rialto Cinemas. Baby Done First up, Kiwi comedy Baby Done hits cinemas on 22 October. Director Curtis Vowell and writer Sophie Henderson will be in attendanceโ€ฆ
Read more
DEGNZ Workflow Best Practice Guide for Editors & Producers

Table Read Round 3 Opens

,
The 3rd round of the 2020 Table Reads opens today. Open to writer-director teams and solo writer/directors from around Aotearoa who are members of DEGNZ and the New Zealand Writers Guild. Enter the draw with your feature film script and youโ€ฆ
Read more

Film Talk: We Need to Talk About A.I.

,
An exciting Q&A screening is coming up on the DEGNZ calendar this October in Auckland. On Thursday 15 October, Director Leanne Pooley's We Need to Talk About A.I. will screen at 6pm at Rialto Cinemas Newmarket. We Need to Talk Aboutโ€ฆ
Read more
DEGNZ Workflow Best Practice Guide for Editors & Producers

Much to Celebrate

We are in the midst of election turmoil both here and in the United States. Pork barrel politics are in full swing here with promises from all sides intended to sway voters. We are fortunate, though, that the Arts has already receivedโ€ฆ
Read more

Show Me Shorts 2020: Best Director & Best Editor Nominees

DEGNZ is again a proud sponsor of the Best Director and Best Editor awards at Show Me Shorts Film Festival this year (October 2 - 28). Our warmest congratulations toย the 2020 nominees! We look forward to celebrating the award winners at theโ€ฆ
Read more
Director attachments on Vegas: Tim Worrall and Cian Elyse White

Directors Tim Worrall and Cian Elyse White Attach to Vegas

,
DEGNZ members Tim Worrall and Cian Elyse White have attached to new drama series Vegas with Greenstone TV under the Guildโ€™s TV Drama Director Attachment Scheme. Both attachments will get to follow their director from prep onwards, untilโ€ฆ
Read more
DEGNZ Workflow Best Practice Guide for Editors & Producers

COVID-19 Membership Holiday Extension

,
At the Directors & Editors Guild of NZ, we have decided to extend our COVID-19 Membership Holiday scheme until 31 January 2021 to support NZ directors, editors and assistant editors who have lost work and are facing financial hardship dueโ€ฆ
Read more
Vista Foundation & Home and Family Counselling logos

Vista Foundation and Home & Family Counselling Offer Extended

,
Counselling support for members of the New Zealand film industry is set to continue until the end of November 2020, thanks to The Vista Foundation and Home & Family Counselling. DEGNZ members can access up to 5 one-hour subsidised counsellingโ€ฆ
Read more
DEGNZ Workflow Best Practice Guide for Editors & Producers

Everything You Wanted to Know About Digital Workflow but Were Too Afraid to Ask

DEGNZ has collaborated with industry to produce the DEGNZ Workflow Best Practice Guide for Editors and Producers. This online resource, available on the DEGNZ website under Resources, covers the full production Workflow, from before budgetingโ€ฆ
Read more
DEGNZ Workflow Best Practice Guide for Editors & Producers

The Interminable Wait

There are a few key unresolved issues in our sector and we are sitting on our hands waiting for action. The transformation of TVNZ into a proper public broadcaster is one. Then thereโ€™s the Screen Industry Worker Bill that will allow contractorsโ€ฆ
Read more