The domestic film industry has high hopes the arrival of one of NZ's most experienced film and TV producers, Dave Gibson, will change a stable but stale culture at the NZ Film Commission.

Tom Hern and James Napier-Robertson have gone behind the cameras and are being tipped as the new faces of the domestic film industry.

New Zealand animated short-film Sifted is the first live action film to be produced in what is known as a 'Point Cloud world', which is where 3D points gathered from many photos of the same object are used to calculate their 3d form.

The decision on the show's funding will highlight how far public bodies are prepared to fund commercial content aimed to boost networks' bottom line, writes John Drinnan.

New Zealand feature film The Orator (O Le Tulafale) has been selected to premiere in competition in the Orizzonti (New Horizons) section of the 68th Venice International Film Festival.

Two New Zealand films have been selected to screen at the inaugural Beijing International Film Festival.

Cathrin Schaer offers her picks of the offerings at Berlinale.

New Zealand director Sam Peacocke won the prize for best short film in the Generation 14 Plus section for his 20-minute-long story Manurewa.

In part two of her investigation of the movie business, Karyn Scherer finds that the numbers are not what they seem.

Taxpayers have paid $500m-plus to subsidise big-budget movie makers. Is it money well spent, asks Karyn Scherer.

Move over hobbits, the zombies are coming.

Four groups of local film makers have been awarded $250,000 each as part of NZ Film Commission funding initiative 'Escalator'.

A meeting of Kiwi actors has urged the producers of Sir Peter Jackson's film 'The Hobbit' to meet actors to discuss pay issues.

Zero and Choice Night will be screening at the prestigious BFI London Film Festival next month.