Australian archival film people have long assumed the earliest extant local footage covered the Melbourne Cup in 1996. In 2005, they were thrilled to discover they were wrong.
The 2010 Show Me Shorts Film Festival today opened its call for entries. The annual national short film festival plays Kiwi and Australian films between three and 30 minutes long, made within the last three years.
At this rate, we will see Birth of a Nation colourised, with a dubbed soundtrack, in 5.1 Dolby etc, and in 3D shortly before civilisation collapses because everyone is too entertained to work.
Taika Waititi has joined the cast of Green Lantern. Filming is set to start later this month in New Orleans. Waititi’s casting means he will not be in Auckland to attend the New Zealand premiere of his feature film Boy on Wednesday 24th March.
Cute special on the fine art of feeding crews. "Mashed potato, chicken soup, corned beef, anything deep-fried — even in 40-degree heat — or chocolate bread-and-butter pudding." are allegedly the most popular.
Chaotic Pictures launched sister company, Chaotic Post at their newly expanded facility in Surry Hills on Monday the 8th of March to coincide with the 82nd Academy Awards.
When the Whyalla paper claimed a local is going to make a feature film in four days, and that director Dave Wade is soliciting donations through JD's Cafe, we just had to ring him up...
Leah Purcell, with Aunty Maggie and the Womba Wakgun wins over Frazer Bailey and Glenn Owen Dodds. While Richard Sowada, joyful maverick of Australian festivals, reckons this is the best pile of shorts he has seen.
Stuck in the old rhetorical trope - "telling our own stories" - Australian filmmakers could contemplate just why we are involved in this crazed enterprise and come up with another mantra - "make our own myths". Karen Pearlman, Head of Screen Studies at AFTRS, expands her case to reimagine our cinema.
Minister for the Arts, Virginia Judge today announced Australia’s largest Indian movie is being filmed in Sydney, creating up to 400 local jobs for cast and crew.
The Waikato Institute of Technology (Wintec) is one of New Zealand’s largest Institutes of Technology/Polytechnics and a leading provider of high quality, vocational and professional education in the Waikato region. One of Wintec’s more popular courses is Moving Image.
Reports have started appearing on the net that Clive Owen has signed on for the upcoming 'Feathermen' movie (aka. The Killer Elite). With Owen and Jason Statham now on board, Melbourne crews could soon be busy, and maybe a little starstruck.
Melissa Kelly is a very busy producer. She has a film in post, two in development, a busy TVC business and two kids aged three and six months. 'Blame', her first feature as a producer, was co-produced with husband Ryan Hodgson, and Michael Robinson. It has just entered post after shooting for four week, mainly in a house in the Roleystone area of the Perth hills.
Daniel Joseph Borgman, director of the first Danish-NZ co-production, has been accepted into the The Résidence du Festival, a development program with the Cannes Film Festival. 'The Weight of Elephants' tells the story of a teenage paperboy who witnesses a horrific murder.
The NZFC invests far less in women writers and directors than in men. What might the NZFC Escalator/Te Whakapiki initiative do, to ensure that women participate strongly? Could the Swedish model work here, guaranteeing that women receive 40% of the funds available?
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