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Let your creative juices flow

DEGNZ Play – Here’s the Theme for Week Two

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Thank you to our director and editor members who submitted a video for the first week of DEGNZ Play! Each one of them made us smile in under 60 seconds, which is gold in a time like now. Watch the 'Bubble' Collection We hope that theseโ€ฆ
Read more
Online Young Creators: Think Outside the Box

Catch-Up on Young Creators: Think Outside the Box

,
We had an awesome time speaking to Jonathan, Milon and Gabe from commercial video production company Chillbox Creative in the latest in our Young Creators series. It was lovely to see thatย while we couldn't meet up in person, familiar facesโ€ฆ
Read more
Online Young Creators: Think Outside the Box

Young Creators: Think Outside the Box

LIVE-STREAM 4PM on Facebook 7.5 years after leaving uni, the six-part team at Chillbox (a commercial video production company) has embarked on pre-production for 'Loop Track', their first self-funded feature film. COVID-19 has meant a postponementโ€ฆ
Read more
COVID-19 and Your Work Rights

COVID-19: Breaches of work rights will be logged with unions

,
Source: CTU, 29 March 2020 -- The Council of Trade Unions has today launched an online tool for working Kiwis to identify employers who arenโ€™t doing the right thing during the COVID-19 period. CTU President Richard Wagstaff is concernedโ€ฆ
Read more
Stay at home, make a video

Stay at Home, Make a Video – DEGNZ Play

,
From Monday 30 March, the Directors & Editors Guild of NZ will introduce DEGNZ Play for our members.ย DEGNZ Play is an initiative to help provide an outlet for your creative juices and get something of yours into production now and out intoโ€ฆ
Read more
COVID-19 Membership HolidayDEGNZ

DEGNZ Offers Members and Non-Members Facing Hardship a Membership Holiday

, ,
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 26 March 2020 For those directors, editors and assisitant editors experiencing financial hardship during the COVID-19 crisis, the Directors and Editors Guild of New Zealand (DEGNZ) has instituted a COVID-19โ€ฆ
Read more
DEGNZ IncubatorDEGNZ

Call for Applications: DEGNZ Emerging Women Filmmakers Incubator 2020

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We are excited to announce that the DEGNZ Women Filmmakers Incubator will be going online in 2020 during the COVID-19 crisis and will resume face-to-face workshops when safe to do so. The Directors & Editors Guild of NZ is now acceptingโ€ฆ
Read more
COVID-19 Action Group logo

COVID-19 Wage Subsidy for Sole-traders and Contractors

,
Anyone who works in events, entertainment, tourism, hospitality and any other industry who has seen their work dry up overnight, you are eligible for a 12 week COVID-19 wage subsidy, as of March 23. Applications are only open for the nextโ€ฆ
Read more
COVID-19 Action Group logo

NZ Screen Industry Announces COVID-19 Pan-Sector Response

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MEDIA RELEASE MONDAY 23 MARCH 2020 For Immediate Release In response to the immediate impact of COVID-19 on the New Zealand screen industry, the sector has today announced the formation of the Screen Sector COVID-19 Action Group and a screen-specificโ€ฆ
Read more

Physical, Mental & Financial Wellbeing – In the COVID-19 Era

,
There has been an influx of information on physical wellbeing in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. But we also have to give thought to our own and othersโ€™ mental and financial wellbeing. As a union and an affiliate to the Council of Tradeโ€ฆ
Read more

COVID-19 โ€“ A Reminder of the Small World We Live In

,
I asked myself and my colleague whether or not I should write about the impact of the coronavirus on our industry in my regular Op Ed. Iโ€™d decided not to, then woke up to some news that has changed my mind. CANNESERIES, the TV version ofโ€ฆ
Read more
Tom Eagles

DEGNZ Selects: Q&A with Editor Tom Eagles

,
DEGNZ Selects is honoured to present a special industry Q&A evening with New Zealand editor Tom Eagles on Monday 2 March. Oscar and BAFTA-nominated for his work on Taika Waititi's Jojo Rabbit and recently back from the red carpet, Tomโ€ฆ
Read more

An Eye Opener

I was fortunate to be invited as a guest to the New Zealander of the Year Awards last night. It was an eye-opener for me. It brought home how myopic I have become with the screen industry essentially consuming my every waking hour. When Iโ€™mโ€ฆ
Read more
Peter Burger

Directors Toolkit with Peter Burger – Auckland

,
Call for Applications - This two-day workshop is aimed at providing directors with practical tools that they can bring to their productions, both in pre-production and on set. Weโ€™ll work on the shape of pre-production (when do I prep what?),โ€ฆ
Read more

Call for Applications: Drama Editor Attachment to Dan Kircher

,
DEGNZ invites emerging drama editors to apply for a Drama Editor Attachment to editor Dan Kircher on feature film Millie Lies Low, directed by Michelle Savill, and produced by Desray Armstrong and Angela Littlejohn. The DEGNZ Drama Editorโ€ฆ
Read more

Directors Graduate the 2019 Emerging Women Filmmakers Incubator

,
Congratulations to the five directors who have completedย DEGNZ's thirdย Emerging Women Filmmakers Incubator.ย Our newest Incubator alumni are Anna Duckworth, Marina Alofagia McCartney, Jessica Sanderson, Claire van Beek and Ursula Williams.โ€ฆ
Read more

What’s Up In 2020?

Weโ€™ve got the elections this year and that means everything is up in the air. Simon Bridges says heโ€™ll likely reverse the TVNZ-RNZ merger if National gets back into power. The Film Industry Working Groupโ€™s recommendations aroundโ€ฆ
Read more

Brendon Chan Attaches to Editor Peter Roberts on Juniper

,
Brendon Chan has been selected as the attachment to editor Peter Roberts on feature film Juniper as part of the Directors & Editors Guild of NZ's ongoing Drama Editor Attachment Scheme. Brendon entered post production in 2010 as an assistantโ€ฆ
Read more
Let your creative juices flow

DEGNZ Play – Here’s the Theme for Week Two

,
Thank you to our director and editor members who submitted a video for the first week of DEGNZ Play! Each one of them made us smile in under 60 seconds, which is gold in a time like now. Watch the 'Bubble' Collection We hope that theseโ€ฆ
Read more
Online Young Creators: Think Outside the Box

Catch-Up on Young Creators: Think Outside the Box

,
We had an awesome time speaking to Jonathan, Milon and Gabe from commercial video production company Chillbox Creative in the latest in our Young Creators series. It was lovely to see thatย while we couldn't meet up in person, familiar facesโ€ฆ
Read more
Online Young Creators: Think Outside the Box

Young Creators: Think Outside the Box

LIVE-STREAM 4PM on Facebook 7.5 years after leaving uni, the six-part team at Chillbox (a commercial video production company) has embarked on pre-production for 'Loop Track', their first self-funded feature film. COVID-19 has meant a postponementโ€ฆ
Read more
COVID-19 and Your Work Rights

COVID-19: Breaches of work rights will be logged with unions

,
Source: CTU, 29 March 2020 -- The Council of Trade Unions has today launched an online tool for working Kiwis to identify employers who arenโ€™t doing the right thing during the COVID-19 period. CTU President Richard Wagstaff is concernedโ€ฆ
Read more
Stay at home, make a video

Stay at Home, Make a Video – DEGNZ Play

,
From Monday 30 March, the Directors & Editors Guild of NZ will introduce DEGNZ Play for our members.ย DEGNZ Play is an initiative to help provide an outlet for your creative juices and get something of yours into production now and out intoโ€ฆ
Read more
COVID-19 Membership HolidayDEGNZ

DEGNZ Offers Members and Non-Members Facing Hardship a Membership Holiday

, ,
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 26 March 2020 For those directors, editors and assisitant editors experiencing financial hardship during the COVID-19 crisis, the Directors and Editors Guild of New Zealand (DEGNZ) has instituted a COVID-19โ€ฆ
Read more
DEGNZ IncubatorDEGNZ

Call for Applications: DEGNZ Emerging Women Filmmakers Incubator 2020

, ,
We are excited to announce that the DEGNZ Women Filmmakers Incubator will be going online in 2020 during the COVID-19 crisis and will resume face-to-face workshops when safe to do so. The Directors & Editors Guild of NZ is now acceptingโ€ฆ
Read more
COVID-19 Action Group logo

COVID-19 Wage Subsidy for Sole-traders and Contractors

,
Anyone who works in events, entertainment, tourism, hospitality and any other industry who has seen their work dry up overnight, you are eligible for a 12 week COVID-19 wage subsidy, as of March 23. Applications are only open for the nextโ€ฆ
Read more
COVID-19 Action Group logo

NZ Screen Industry Announces COVID-19 Pan-Sector Response

, ,
MEDIA RELEASE MONDAY 23 MARCH 2020 For Immediate Release In response to the immediate impact of COVID-19 on the New Zealand screen industry, the sector has today announced the formation of the Screen Sector COVID-19 Action Group and a screen-specificโ€ฆ
Read more

Physical, Mental & Financial Wellbeing – In the COVID-19 Era

,
There has been an influx of information on physical wellbeing in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. But we also have to give thought to our own and othersโ€™ mental and financial wellbeing. As a union and an affiliate to the Council of Tradeโ€ฆ
Read more

COVID-19 โ€“ A Reminder of the Small World We Live In

,
I asked myself and my colleague whether or not I should write about the impact of the coronavirus on our industry in my regular Op Ed. Iโ€™d decided not to, then woke up to some news that has changed my mind. CANNESERIES, the TV version ofโ€ฆ
Read more
Tom Eagles

DEGNZ Selects: Q&A with Editor Tom Eagles

,
DEGNZ Selects is honoured to present a special industry Q&A evening with New Zealand editor Tom Eagles on Monday 2 March. Oscar and BAFTA-nominated for his work on Taika Waititi's Jojo Rabbit and recently back from the red carpet, Tomโ€ฆ
Read more

An Eye Opener

I was fortunate to be invited as a guest to the New Zealander of the Year Awards last night. It was an eye-opener for me. It brought home how myopic I have become with the screen industry essentially consuming my every waking hour. When Iโ€™mโ€ฆ
Read more
Peter Burger

Directors Toolkit with Peter Burger – Auckland

,
Call for Applications - This two-day workshop is aimed at providing directors with practical tools that they can bring to their productions, both in pre-production and on set. Weโ€™ll work on the shape of pre-production (when do I prep what?),โ€ฆ
Read more

Call for Applications: Drama Editor Attachment to Dan Kircher

,
DEGNZ invites emerging drama editors to apply for a Drama Editor Attachment to editor Dan Kircher on feature film Millie Lies Low, directed by Michelle Savill, and produced by Desray Armstrong and Angela Littlejohn. The DEGNZ Drama Editorโ€ฆ
Read more

Directors Graduate the 2019 Emerging Women Filmmakers Incubator

,
Congratulations to the five directors who have completedย DEGNZ's thirdย Emerging Women Filmmakers Incubator.ย Our newest Incubator alumni are Anna Duckworth, Marina Alofagia McCartney, Jessica Sanderson, Claire van Beek and Ursula Williams.โ€ฆ
Read more

What’s Up In 2020?

Weโ€™ve got the elections this year and that means everything is up in the air. Simon Bridges says heโ€™ll likely reverse the TVNZ-RNZ merger if National gets back into power. The Film Industry Working Groupโ€™s recommendations aroundโ€ฆ
Read more

Brendon Chan Attaches to Editor Peter Roberts on Juniper

,
Brendon Chan has been selected as the attachment to editor Peter Roberts on feature film Juniper as part of the Directors & Editors Guild of NZ's ongoing Drama Editor Attachment Scheme. Brendon entered post production in 2010 as an assistantโ€ฆ
Read more