Featured Updates | Pift Pacific Islanders in Film & TV

Applications close on Wed 14 Dec 2016, 5pm Applications are now open for the 2017 Aotearoa Short Film Lab, a prestigious hothouse mentoring scheme for screenwriters and aspiring screenwriters to workshop new ideas for short films. Established in 2010 as a partnership… Someday Stories is a series of six sustainability-focused short films by young New Zealanders. The completed films will be screened by The Wireless, Māori Television On Demand andThecoconet.tv (Screen Partners). They will also be entered into international film… Script to Screen, Ngā Aho Whakaari and PIFT present the 2016 South Auckland Short Film Workshop – a free two-day workshop that will give you everything you need to know to make a short film. Over one weekend, four experienced filmmakers will guide you through each… LOADING DOCS is excited to be once again seeking proposals from New Zealand filmmakers for creative and original 3-minute documentary shorts to be made in 2017. The theme of DIVERSITY will unite the 2017 collection of documentaries. Since launching in 2014, Loading… Coco-shorts Film Development Workshop Pift in conjunction with The Coconet TV brings together a powerhouse of Pacific film making to inspire and grow new storytelling ideas. Whether your passion is for digital, film or social media storytelling, put your hand up for… Created by Writers for Writers To give this industry its best chance of success we need strong and new ideas. We need stories that resonate. NZWG believe in different pathways for developing these stories. We need to allow writers space to find their voices. The goal…