2012-04-20 13:27:55 // Josh Martin
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It may not have the Wellywood sign, but Mike Wallis’ self-funded feature Good for Nothing is proof of the filmmaking prowess and unaccountable benefits for films produced in the capital.
2012-04-10 09:19:10
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The social media strategist behind The Hunger Games’ elaborately planned campaign explains how Lionsgate turned an online fanbase into box office success.
2012-03-30 14:30:13 // Esther Goh
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The movie of the month, hands down, has got to be the Hunger Games, released locally last week.
But what if director Gary Ross (Pleasantville, Seabiscuit) had been passed over for ... somebody more famous?
2012-03-22 14:20:06 // Rebekah White
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A new movie will answer the question of whether fracking promises to be our economic salvation or an eco disaster.
2012-03-12 16:06:07 // Aaron Smale
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A group of Melbourne indie filmmakers is developing a sci-fi/fantasy series to be released in 2013. But will it be a case of democracy winning, or too many cooks?
2012-03-01 12:25:53 // Esther Goh
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“Ideas worth spreading” is the TED ethos, and now the organisation has picked out 10 ads worth spreading to the masses, including a cinema-loving bear for Canal+, a powerful call to voting action in Tunisia, topless guys in a breast cancer campaign, an egg travelling down a massive outdoor xylophone and a whole lot of long-form first-person narratives.
2012-03-01 08:30:01 // Esther Goh
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Self-confessed filmhead Ant Timpson was last night named the inaugural ART Creative Entrepreneur of 2012 for his contributions to the industry.
2012-02-20 12:33:00 // Design Daily Team
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For the first time Reto Caduff's documentary The Visual Language of Herbert Matter is getting an airing in New Zealand, thanks to Design Assembly.
2012-02-15 16:07:34 // Design Daily Team
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Christchurch's architecture may have taken a hit in the past year or so, but the latest addition to NZ On Screen's library includes the Christchurch episode of classic NZ architecture series, The Elegant Shed (to go with the Wellington episode already online).
2012-02-14 13:45:02 // Siobhan Leathley
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Taika Waititi has taken to Kickstarter to drum up $90,000 in order to bring the film Boy to US cinemas.
2012-02-03 13:21:48 // Design Daily Team
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From the organisers of the mighty New Zealand International Film Festival comes the World Cinema Showcase, featuring films selected by NZIFF programmers that for whatever reason were not eligible for NZIFF screening. For the design-minded, there are screeds to get your teeth into.
2011-12-20 12:37:40 // Siobhan Leathley
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The Tintin experience just got even better for fans – HarperCollins Publishers, Weta and Moulinsart have collaborated on an app to let viewers immerse themselves into Hergé's rich fictional world.
2011-12-14 15:49:18 // Kate Beecroft
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Mutant eggs, plasticine turds ... what's not to like about the new Spartacus R music video?
2011-12-09 12:54:45 // Siobhan Leathley
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A Dunedin couple who started an ethical boutique after creating a short film about sustainability have been named the supreme winners of the Outlook for Someday film challenge.
2011-11-08 14:11:42 // Idealog
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Johanna Hertwich, 16, from rural Murchison in the South Island, has taken the Supreme Award at the inaugural Inspiring Stories Film Competition.
2011-10-19 13:25:35 // Sarah Robson
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Father-and-son team Lance and James Morcan have been pretty busy of late – they’ve just had two of their co-written novels published and two of their feature films released offshore – but creative roadblocks have stymied their "passion project".
2011-10-10 15:20:35 // Esther Goh
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The New Zealand Film Archive has been bestowed with the 2011 Jean Mitry Award, an international prize that singles out individuals or organisations “distinguished for their contribution to the reclamation and appreciation of silent cinema.”
2011-09-26 09:39:22 // Sarah Robson
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Richard Mans began teaching himself 3D animation back in 1998. Thirteen years later, he's about to hit the international film festival circuit with his debut short animated film, Abiogenesis.
2011-08-23 10:32:07 // Nicky Chapman
// Idealog #34: features
The four young filmmakers of Splashroom Media are turning their ideals into a business, for the good of us all.
2011-08-11 10:02:44 // Felicity Monk
// Idealog #34: features
He's possibly New Zealand's most commercial director—responsible for big-name blockbusters like The Mask of Zorro, Goldeneye, Casino Royale and Green Lantern. Long relocated to London, Martin Campbell talks to Felicity Monk about Peter Jackson, multimillion-dollar budgets and the Wellywood sign.
2011-08-04 11:02:18 // Mitchell Hall
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Aucklander Maria Ines Manchego is a photographer, cinematographer and director living in hipster ground zero—Brooklyn, New York’s Williamsburg. The quietly-spoken Chilean–New Zealander recently shot her first feature with Kiwi director Florian Habicht.
2011-07-27 12:44:51 // Esther Goh
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A travelling cinema showing off solid gold Kiwi film and TV classics is embarking on a tour of the South Island in a souped-up retro caravan.
2011-07-13 19:48:12 // Esther Goh
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With Steven Spielberg behind the camera and our own Peter Jackson at the producing helm, the upcoming Tintin movie is one of the most anticipated releases of the year. Have a gander at the just-released full trailer...
2011-07-13 14:14:11 // Vanessa Ellingham
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The latest social experiment film stars a Hollywood actress, Toshiba, Intel—and maybe even you.
2011-07-06 13:20:17 // Sustain Team
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When the 2010 call to entries was made for the Outlook for Someday film competition last year, project director David Jacobs was feeling mighty optimistic about the competition for young people, saying it had become “part of New Zealand’s film landscape” and that it was “creating a buzz overseas”. And if the recently acquired backing is anything to go by, he's right.
2011-02-10 08:22:54 // Stephen Jewell
// Idealog #31: now
Filmmaker David Blyth completes his
cult-horror trilogy after a 30-year hiatus in
the Hollywood “sausage factory”
2010-12-03 16:05:33 // Design Daily Team
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Here’s your chance to swim in an ocean of creativity. WWF-New Zealand has launched a competition that seeks to harvest the creative juices of New Zealanders in a way that demonstrates a passion for Enzed’s mighty oceans. The competition—‘Ocean:Views’—is calling for people to submit creative works celebrating New Zealand's oceans and our connection with them, through creative works in any of the following four categories—music, creative writing, short film, and visual art (including, but not limited to, photography, illustration, graphic design and multimedia).
2010-09-20 12:53:23 // David MacGregor
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If money is made between the content, what happens when the content is gone?
2010-08-13 12:19:50 // Design Daily Team
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With exactly one week to go until Semi-Permanent 2010 commences, we’re taking a look at The Light Surgeons, a collective of pioneering multimedia artists, founded in 1995 by creative director Christopher Thomas Allen. The collective functions as a media arts production company that seeks to create new cross-disciplinary audiovisual work that breaks new ground through its installation, live performance and digital film productions.
2010-08-11 09:12:50 // Florence Noble
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Roseanne Liang directs her first feature film—based on her own life and starring two kung-fu movie veterans. No pressure, says Florence Noble.
2010-07-02 15:35:01 // Design Daily Team
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Ocean Design are asking you to put your design goggles on and scour through the archive of New Zealand International Film Festival posters and vote for your favourite poster design.
2010-07-01 12:55:23 // Design Daily Team
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New Zealand is becoming known as much for its Hobbits and hairy directors as it is for post-production work. And it's not all from Weta either
2010-06-29 15:42:14 // Design Daily Team
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The main title sequence, the credits at the beginning of a film, has evolved from the plain old static card to - in some cases - a dynamic piece of art in its own right.
2010-06-22 21:14:21 // Sam Eichblatt
// Idealog #28: interact
Pixar senior animator Andrew Gordon is making his way down under for SP10 in August. We caught him in June to ask about the future of Andy, Buzz and Mr Incredible.
2010-05-20 10:39:00 // Denis Welch
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Fresh off the festival success of its short film, production company Sticky Pictures works the room at Sundance. Denis Welch asks about Robert Redford, raising cash and working with kids and animals
2010-03-02 11:11:11 // Matt Cooney
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If Quentin Tarantino had spent 20 years trapped in branding hell, his first film might have looked something like Logorama. The full version is a 16 minutes long, complete with car chases, a hostage crisis and an apocalyptic Los Angeles—check it out at the official website.
2010-01-15 09:05:00 // Jason Smith
// Idealog #25: workshop Avatar is being released in 256 screen formats. Think there might be a future in post-production?
2009-12-16 10:22:00 // Mitchell Hall
// Idealog #25: now
“I just don’t know how we did it” says Andrew Hunt, proud parent of a son and an award-winning short film.
2009-11-30 10:39:17 // Florence Noble
// Idealog #24: now
Chelsie Preston Crayford started her acting career with a chocolate bribe. Now she needs no convincing.
2009-09-08 10:00:36 // Matt Cooney
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Visual effects: 100 years of inspiration. Now that the wow factor of the latest FX fades so quickly, it’s fascinating to see the creativity of the vintage effects. Love that traffic shot.
2009-08-17 08:55:56 // Deirdre Robert
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Philip Hunt, aka ‘Studio AKA’, chats to us about bringing children’s books to life and the stiff competition he faces from his own daughter.
2009-08-16 22:29:27 // Deirdre Robert
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Paul Soong from The Church talks about the permanence of Semi-Permanent and why it’s important to nurture upcoming creative Kiwis
2009-08-16 21:48:52 // Deirdre Robert
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He likes to lie down but it’s a good thing he was upright when we spoke to him. Semi-Permanent MC Te Radar shares his unique analogies on creativity.
2009-08-15 20:35:28 // Deirdre Robert
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He’s very tall and filled to the brim with creative prowess. Weta Digital’s visual effects supervisor Matt Aitken tells us why Hollywood loves New Zealand
2009-07-14 18:12:19 // Matt Cooney
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This looks most promising … trailer for the new version of Under The Mountain, directed by Jonathan King.
2009-06-30 10:47:14 // Matt Cooney
// Idealog #22: interact
Semi-Permanent must be due a name change. Back in 2009 for its sixth year, the landmark New Zealand design event is positively durable. It could also be called the granddaddy of a new wave of creative Kiwi events.
2008-08-08 11:57:01 // Peter Griffin
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Nigel Stanford tried his hand at music and design but made his fortune on the web, creating social sites and running Trade Me when Sam Morgan left town. Now he’s moving into movies with his own studio. Peter Griffin tracks his strange journey. Plus Trade Me’s fab four and trading places
2008-07-17 08:07:48 // Catherine Smith
// Idealog #16: now
Despite the success of Al Gore, Morgan Spurlock and Michael Moore, two Kiwi documentary makers don’t expect riches from their efforts any time soon
2007-10-25 09:23:34 // Gena Tuffery
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Ideas are free—and ideas people can be bloody cheap too. Gena Tuffery looks behind the corporate façade and meets the creative interns getting by on company handouts and whatever’s left in the fridge. Plus: When to stick it out and when to just stick it.
2007-08-30 09:56:21 // Peter Griffin
// Idealog #11: features
Taika Waititi’s movie about a couple of Kiwi misfits, was never intended for an overseas audience—but it’s showing on screens across the US courtesy of The Walt Disney Company, complete with a killer soundtrack by fellow Wellingtonians The Phoenix Foundation. Peter Griffin follows their road to the Magic Kingdom
