Directors working with scripts
Source: Show Me Shorts Film Festival When a script is complete it passes from the screenwriter to the director. What happens next? There are a number of actions required before production begins. In this handy guide we lay out the steps for you, peppered with tips from Ivan Barge – director of the award-winning New Zealand short film Madam Black. ADVICE FROM IVAN: Being given a great script by a writer is […]
Read More →Submissions for 2018 now open | Show Me Shorts Film Festival
MIL OSI – Source: Show Me Shorts Film Festival – Release/Statement Headline: Submissions for 2018 now open | Show Me Shorts Film Festival Submissions are now open for the 13th edition of Aotearoa New Zealand’s leading international short film festival. Show Me Shorts 2018 will take place this Spring in more than 25 cinemas nationwide […]
Read More →Applications now open for Aotearoa Short Film Lab 2018 | Show Me Shorts Film Festival
MIL OSI – Source: Show Me Shorts Film Festival – Release/Statement Headline: Applications now open for Aotearoa Short Film Lab 2018 | Show Me Shorts Film Festival Applications are now open for the 2018 Aotearoa Short Film Lab. Aotearoa Short Film Lab is New Zealand’s most prestigious hothouse mentoring scheme for screenwriters and aspiring screenwriters […]
Read More →Short Films by Jackie van Beek | Show Me Shorts Film Festival
MIL OSI – Source: Show Me Shorts Film Festival – Release/Statement Headline: Short Films by Jackie van Beek | Show Me Shorts Film Festival Writer/director/actor/comedian Jackie van Beek is one of New Zealand’s most prolific and successful short film makers. Her first feature film The Inland Road has just premiered to positive critical review. Time […]
Read More →Branded content: the future of short films | Show Me Shorts Film Festival
MIL OSI – Source: Show Me Shorts Film Festival – Release/Statement Headline: Branded content: the future of short films | Show Me Shorts Film Festival Today it is common practice for us to skip or block advertising when we are watching TV shows or online video content. Interrupting our entertainment with an unwanted 30-second advertisement […]
Read More →Disney short films keep us dreaming | Show Me Shorts Film Festival
MIL OSI – Source: Show Me Shorts Film Festival – Release/Statement Headline: Disney short films keep us dreaming | Show Me Shorts Film Festival Cartoons don’t get the respect they deserve. If you’re eight or eighty you’ve probably got a favourite Disney animated short film. Mine were always the How To Goofy cartoons. Since Mickey […]
Read More →Kiwis in Korea | Show Me Shorts Film Festival
MIL OSI – Source: Show Me Shorts Film Festival – Release/Statement Headline: Kiwis in Korea | Show Me Shorts Film Festival We were privileged to take part in the 34th Busan International Short Film Festival (BISFF) in South Korea. What a beautiful city and wonderful festival run by passionate film lovers! We presented a selection […]
Read More →Filmmaking competitions forge teams | Show Me Shorts Film Festival
MIL OSI – Source: Show Me Shorts Film Festival – Release/Statement Headline: Filmmaking competitions forge teams | Show Me Shorts Film Festival So many times I have thought – damn I could make a sweet short film that could lead onto greatness. But figured screw it, I haven’t got the time to spend being Spielberg […]
Read More →Submissions for 2017 now open | Show Me Shorts Film Festival
MIL OSI – Source: Show Me Shorts Film Festival – Release/Statement Headline: Submissions for 2017 now open | Show Me Shorts Film Festival Submissions are now open for the 12th edition of Aotearoa New Zealand’s leading international short film festival. Show Me Shorts 2017 will take place this Spring in more than 20 cinemas nationwide […]
Read More →Daily Digest: Tanna filmmakers respond to exploitation claims
MIL Analysis+Reportage – EveningReport.NZ Article by AsiaPacificReport.nz Comment from Vanuatu Daily Digest Knee-jerk resentment of someone else’s success, as elsewhere, is sadly a feature of Vanuatu life, so the kind of comment seen below, prompted by the feature film Tanna‘s global success — and now Oscar nomination, is not unexpected: Thanks and good tumas blo save’ but my […]
Read More →Flashback: Honouring independent journalist and film maker Mark Worth
MIL Analysis+Reportage – EveningReport.NZ Article by AsiaPacificReport.nz Land of the Morning Star … the 2004 documentary on West Papua made by Mark Worth. From Pacific Media Watch / Australians for a Free West Papua Darwin Australian award-winning journalist and film maker Mark Worth died in West Papua on January 15, 2004 – suspiciously just two […]
Read More →Disney’s Moana: First Pacific princess the real deal
MIL Analysis+Reportage – EveningReport.NZ Article by AsiaPacificReport.nz The Moana trailer … “magical but also our reality.” By Vaimoana Tapaleao of The New Zealand Herald You know the film is something special when the opening scene brings a tear to the eye. It is the call of song from an ancestor: the voice of a woman […]
Read More →Scorsese’s Silence and the Catholic connection to the atomic bomb
MIL Analysis+Reportage – EveningReport.NZ Article by AsiaPacificReport.nz By Gwyn McClelland in Melbourne Today, Martin Scorsese’s Silence will have its premiere at the Vatican, where it will be screened to hundreds of Roman Catholic priests. The famed director’s first foray into East Asia links to familiar themes of Catholic guilt and redemption, as he portrays the […]
Read More →Price of Peace filmmakers honoured with award
MIL Analysis+Reportage – EveningReport.NZ Article by AsiaPacificReport.nz The film made its debut at the New Zealand International Film Festival in 2015. Video: JourneymanVOD By TJ Aumua in Auckland Co-producer Christina Milligan (left) with Peace Foundation board member Tom Ang and other co-producer Roger Grant (far right). Film director Kim Webby is currently in Vanuatu opening […]
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