The Auckland Mayor, Len Brown, has just concluded a 40 strong delegation to China with great results. The importance of senior government representation is well understood in China, and the Auckland delegation gained extra fire power from the Ambassador, Carl Worker. Of special importance to this site, the screen sector, had 5 delegates, and was accompanied by the NZ Film Festival in China, organised by the tireless Jim He. Jim is about to be recognised for 12 years of hard work building... Read full post

The first APN to be held in Auckland, New Zealand will kick off with a cocktail party on the 11th Nov. 2011.
The Asia-Pacific Producers’ Network (APN) is a group of more than eighty leading screen producers, primarily from China, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Singapore and New Zealand.  Formed in 2005 with the aim of encouraging co–productions, collaboration and joint projects, it is an organisation made up of powerful producers, studios and distributors all... Read full post

EXTRACT FROM DOUG COPP'S ARTICLE ON THE: "TRIANGLE OF LIFE"
My name is Doug Copp. I am the Rescue Chief and Disaster Manager of the American Rescue Team International (ARTI), the world's most experienced rescue team. The information in this article will save lives in an earthquake. I have crawled inside 875 collapsed buildings, worked with rescue teams from 60 countries, founded rescue teams in several countries, and I am a member of many rescue teams from many countries... I was the... Read full post

 
talhotblond doco
 
A middle-aged man in a loveless marriage meets a lonely teenager on the internet. Yes, it’s potential cliché material, but this film transforms the subject matter into the extraordinary. This is a tale of love, lust and violence, while turning on its head the notion of who the online predators are. talhotblond
is the true story (and screen name) of a beautiful teenage vixen who uses Internet game rooms to lure men into her cyberspace web.... Read full post

Life 2.0
This feature-length documentary follows a group of people whose lives are dramatically transformed by the virtual world Second Life. They enter a new reality, whose inhabitants assume alternate personas in the form of avatars. The film is foremost an intimate, character-based drama about people who look to a virtual world in search of something they are
missing in their real lives. A young woman in Detroit becomes a star designer of virtual clothes and houses; an American and a... Read full post

Erasing David Doco
How much information is there in the public domain on you and how easy it is to get that information? With such open communication and data mining going on in today’s digital world, don’t you just wonder?
To test the reach of the information gathering systems, director Bond leaves his pregnant wife Katie and young child behind and drops
off the grid. He challenges Britain’s top private investigators to track him using whatever information they can find in... Read full post

DOC Lab 2011 is an incubator for cross-media documentary projects, from 19-21 Feb 2011 at Auckland University of Technology (AUT). Whether you are in drama or documentary, if you wish to develop digital media ideas across platforms then you should attend DOC Lab.
Cross media has meant that boundaries and borders are fast disappearing as one form of media intermixes with another, and then another, and so on; creating new prototypes of entertainment media.  Film meets gaming meets virtual... Read full post

The Documentary Edge Film festival which will begin on 16 February.LIFE 2.0This feature-length documentary follows a group of people whose lives are dramatically transformed by the virtual world Second Life. They enter a new reality, whose inhabitants assume alternate personas in the form of avatars. The film is foremost an intimate, character-based drama about people who look to a virtual world in search of something they are missing in their real lives. A young woman in Detroit becomes a star... Read full post

The Media Design School in Auckland has achieved the outstanding student accomplishment of two nominations to the prestigious 2011 VES Awards in the US.
VES Awards Nominations

28th Oct. 2010

Following on from the MOU that was signed between the China Film Association and Film Auckland, Pete Rive was invited to lead a delegation from New Zealand to the equivalent of the Chinese Oscars, The Golden Rooster Awards and Hundred Flower Film Festival. Also in attendance were directors, Simone Horrocks, and Athena Tsoulis, the Head of Screen Performing Arts, UNITEC, with their respective films, After the Waterfall, and Jinx Sister. The other delegates were Mr Yan, and Jim... Read full post