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NZ film selected for Venice Film Festival
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.
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Behind the Screens: And the winner is...
Cathrin Schaer offers her picks of the offerings at Berlinale.
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Behind the Screens: Kiwi film wins 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.
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Behind The Screens: Docos outshine the rest in Berlin
Before the beginning of the documentary The Bengali Detective, the producer made an announcement to the assembled media, reveals Cathrin Schaer.
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Behind The Screens: Rolling Out Berlin's Red Carpet
One of the biggest film festivals in the world started with a red carpet première of US blockbuster True Grit on Thursday in Berlin. Celebrities, star-crazed fans and journalists with silly questions, packed the German capital.
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The Hollywood shell game
In part two of her investigation of the movie business, Karyn Scherer finds that the numbers are not what they seem.
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The Big Picture
Taxpayers have paid $500m-plus to subsidise big-budget movie makers. Is it money well spent, asks Karyn Scherer.
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Film fund hopes less stress equals more success
Four groups of local film makers have been awarded $250,000 each as part of NZ Film Commission funding initiative 'Escalator'.
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Talk to us, Kiwi actors tell Hobbit film's producers
A meeting of Kiwi actors has urged the producers of Sir Peter Jackson's film 'The Hobbit' to meet actors to discuss pay issues.
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Local short films heading to British festival
Zero and Choice Night will be screening at the prestigious BFI London Film Festival next month.
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American actress wins top Qantas award
You may know Vera Farmiga as the sexually charged businesswoman in Up In The Air, but the Oscar-nominated star won the award for best actress in a feature film here in New Zealand.
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<i>Media</i>: Long wait for breakfast a bold move
Sean Plunket's replacement is a long time coming.
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Director Ward set to leave NZ over film funding problems
The River Queen director has expressed frustration that the New Zealand Film Commission failed to read three film proposals he submitted last year.
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<i>Media</i>: Change of climate for key TV player
New Zealand's top broadcasting bureaucrat is tuning out of the sector to be Climate Change Ambassador.