The Outlook for Someday Short Film Winners Announced
A documentary that travels from the windy city of Chicago to our own breezy Wellington to show the work of food rescuers is this year’s The Body Shop Standout Winner of The Outlook for Someday film...
View ArticleViewfinder Issue 7 is out now!
Viewfinder magazine is New Zealand’s magazine for creators of NZ Indie Film, Video and Web TV. You can subscribe to Viewfinder Magazine from $24.
View ArticlePatronage in the 21st century
Sponsorship of artists, musicians, writers, philosophers, alchemists, astrologers, and other scholars by wealthy benefactors was common up until the 19th century. Artists as diverse and important as...
View ArticleA Long Way From Broadway (but near NZ)
New Zealand’s newest musical web series is A Long Way From Broadway, a web series that tells the story of a small town New Zealand musical theatre society. Each episode will center around a musical...
View ArticleIt’s Mel – Look Out!
Insights into making a web series - three years in the making; when actors and filmmakers collaborate.
View ArticleStoked for Saturday
Jordan Poste and Jenna Cock are two Canadian expats who, feeling stagnant, decided to quit their jobs, sell their houses and move to – New Zealand. Settled in Wellington at the end of 2013, they wasted...
View ArticleUnstuck
Unstuck is a short film being produced for entry into the New Zealand Tropfest Competition in 2015.
View ArticleBringing Shakespeare into The Digital Age
Nothing Much To Do is a vlog series, inspired by Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, created by four young New Zealand women and produced on a zero budget. The series has met with critical acclaim...
View ArticleTropfest NZ 2015 finalists announced
Tropfest New Zealand has announced the 16 gifted filmmakers whose films will screen to a live audience and judging panel on Valentine’s Day, February 14 at the TSB Bowl of Brooklands in New Plymouth,...
View ArticleAgency – a comedy web series
Agency is a satirical comedy series based around the activities of a small creative marketing agency in Wellington, staffed by three hapless but genuine and enthusiastic marketing wannabes – the owner,...
View ArticleWeb series: Sons of Liars
Sons of Liars is a webshow created by high school students. The show follows a trio of teenagers who do research into the paranormal. The show will launch on YouTube on 10th February 2015.
View ArticleLoading Docs announced for 2015
A suburban picture palace on the brink of extinction, strangers dancing in the dark, a ‘headcase’ turned world leader, a woman who talks to animals, a freestyling busker and a kiwi pro wrestler - these...
View ArticleVajazzle – a new and wicked crowdfunded short film
Creators of a new short film launching Valentine’s Day says crowdfunding is the answer for filmmakers who can’t penetrate, navigate or wait for Film Commission funding.
View ArticleThe inspiration, sweat and tears behind Tropfest NZ short films
Tropfest New Zealand screens live this weekend – on Valentine’s Day - at the TSB Bowl of Brooklands in New Plymouth, to an expected audience of 10,000 and a judging panel.
View ArticleTropfest NZ 2015 winner: EVERY MOMENT
Viewfinder talked to Director Gabriel Reid about the inspiration for making his short film – and the challenges along the way.
View ArticleEvery Moment Wins at Tropfest 2015
Auckland short film writer and director Gabriel Reid has earned the top spot at Tropfest NZ 2015 with his seven-minute film ‘Every Moment’.
View ArticleYouTube; the newest career in New Zealand
YouTuber Jamie Curry was the special guest speaker at the Auckland You Tube: Insider’s Guide to Success event on February 13th – doing the ‘rock star’ fly in, fly out to speak to a couple of hundred...
View ArticleNew Zealand’s Top YouTubers – February 2015
Check out this month's Top 10 New Zealand YouTube channels.
View ArticleThree out of Five Stars
Three out of Five Stars is observational and absurd sketch comedy from Nick Davies, Sarah McCarthy, and Thomas Newman with videos added to their YouTube channel on a regular basis.
View ArticleCrowdfunding underway for Loading Docs 2015
March marks the beginning of a nail-biting time for 10 short documentary making teams selected to participate in Loading Docs 2015. Ten separate crowdfunding campaigns from Auckland to Dunedin, have...
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