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Rotting Hill makes a million
Thursday, 12 July 2012, 6:56 pm | Media Design School
Rotting Hill makes a million Auckland, 12 July 2012: Zombie romcom Rotting Hill has reached one million views on Vimeo since its July 2011 release. More >>
Sir Richard Taylor 'thrilled' by film success
Monday, 25 June 2012, 9:27 am | Media Design School
Auckland, 25 June 2012 - New Zealander of the Year Sir Richard Taylor has thrown his weight behind Media Design School’s bid to conquer the film world. More >>
Student films compete in global YouTube festival
Tuesday, 12 June 2012, 5:20 pm | Media Design School
Media Design School is proud to announce that student short films Dr Grordborts Presents: The Deadliest Game and Das Tub have been selected for the YouTube Your Film Festival channel and is calling on Kiwis to boost the films into the final 10. More >>
Students receive Interactive Gaming scholarships
Monday, 11 June 2012, 3:16 pm | Media Design School
Wellington-based game studio Sidhe and mobile publisher PikPok has granted two Media Design School students a generous scholarship toward their first year of study More >>
New Zealand's first game degrees are here
Wednesday, 23 May 2012, 5:27 pm | Media Design School
Media Design School will fuel growth of the industry with the introduction of New Zealand’s first game development degrees. The School has been supplying the game industry with talent since 2004 when it launched the Graduate Diploma of Game Development. More >>
'The Deadliest Game' Premieres in Auckland
Thursday, 16 February 2012, 2:15 pm | Media Design School
The retro-future world of Dr Grordbort comes alive in Media Design School’s sci-fi short film The Deadliest Game , which premiered in Auckland last night. Based on the richly imagined universe of Weta Workshop Conceptual Designer Greg Broadmore, ... More >>
Four NZ Short Films Take on the World’s Best in Bondi
Friday, 16 December 2011, 2:29 pm | Media Design School
Acceptance of one short film to screen at the Flickerfest Short Film Festival in Australia is reason to celebrate, but having four short films selected is an unexpected Christmas gift for a number of talented 3d Animation students, and the director of ... More >>
Media Design School to offer Visual Effects
Tuesday, 13 December 2011, 10:07 am | Media Design School
Media Design School to offer Visual Effects and 3D Animation Degree Shaping education for the 21st century Auckland—December 12, 2011-- With the announcement of a new degree qualification in visual effects and 3D animation, the burgeoning New Zealand ... More >>
2011 Graduates Receive Inaugural DDB Scholarship Award
Monday, 21 November 2011, 3:18 pm | Media Design School
Auckland – 18 November 2011 -- The AdSchool at Media Design School celebrated its end-of-year AdShow on Wednesday November 16, with the announcement of the first-ever recipients of the DDB Scholarship Award . More >>
Media Design School animation wins at Mississippi Festival
Tuesday, 15 November 2011, 3:20 pm | Media Design School
Media Design School has notched up another win for CGI-live action short film First Contact, taking the trophy for Best Sci-Fi or Horror at the Mississippi International Film Festival in Jackson, Mississippi. More >>
Media Design School Involved In Dr Grordbort Project
Monday, 19 September 2011, 5:21 pm | Media Design School
How does one write a press release that begins with Greg Broadmore? He is after all the guy who created Dr Grordbort’s Contrapulatronic Dingus Directory and is a senior conceptual designer at Weta Workshop. He’s the man responsible for the Indivisible ... More >>
Sweet Taste Of Success For Kiwi Students
Thursday, 5 May 2011, 11:23 am | Media Design School
Two creative students at Media Design School’s AdSchool picked up Best Student Brief at the 2011 Bees Awards in San Francisco last night – the first international social media marketing awards for the communications industry. Ben Andrews (art director) ... More >>
NZ Short Film Wins at Aspen SHORTSFEST
Tuesday, 12 April 2011, 2:51 pm | Media Design School
NZ short film Das Tub has won Best Short Short at the Aspen Shortsfest in Colorado – considered one of the world’s top 50 leading film festivals. The win comes on the heels of the film winning Best Director at the Honolulu Film Awards in Hawaii. More >>
Double Win at Honolulu Film Awards
Tuesday, 5 April 2011, 4:32 pm | Media Design School
Two acclaimed short films from Media Design School have gone on to win double accolades at the 2011 Honolulu Film Awards – which recognises outstanding achievement in independent filmmaking globally. More >>
Double Win At Honolulu Film Awards
Tuesday, 5 April 2011, 4:28 pm | Media Design School
Two acclaimed short films from Media Design School have gone on to win double accolades at the 2011 Honolulu Film Awards – which recognises outstanding achievement in independent filmmaking globally. More >>
David Bell Wins Axis Lifetime Achievement Award
Friday, 1 April 2011, 3:43 pm | Media Design School
Advertising maestro David Bell has won a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2011 CAANZ Axis Awards. Bell, who is a founding member and the first course leader of the AdSchool at Media Design School, was shocked and overwhelmed by the win. More >>
Submarine Action Film Sinks Competition
Wednesday, 23 March 2011, 1:24 pm | Media Design School
A tongue-in-cheek student short film that pays homage to submarine action films has been selected as an international finalist at the Aspen Shortsfest in Colorado – considered one of the world’s top 50 film festivals. Das Tub, animated by Advanced ... More >>
Elite Scholarship Win For Karl Burnett
Friday, 18 March 2011, 2:45 pm | Media Design School
Former Shortland Street actor Karl Burnett has been chosen as the recipient of the 2011 Sidhe Elite financial scholarship. More >>
UFO Sighted At Western Park
Tuesday, 8 March 2011, 9:37 am | Media Design School
Scientists have been mystified by reports of unusual extra-terrestrial activity around the Western Park area in the past few weeks. Visitors to the park have reported experiencing "warm, prickly sensations" before passing out only to wake up in a strange ... More >>
Media Design School Turns Red & Black for Christchurch
Friday, 4 March 2011, 11:47 am | Media Design School
Students and staff at Auckland’s Media Design School are dressing up in Red & Black today (March 4, 2011) for a very special Red & Black Mufti Day to raise funds for victims of the recent Christchurch earthquake. More >>