NZ International Film Festival - Latest News [Page 3]
Further Sneak Titles + Guest Shorts Selector Announced
Thursday, 24 May 2012, 1:15 pm | NZ International Film Festival
MEDIA BRIEF: Thursday 24 May Further Sneak Titles + Guest Shorts Selector Announced for NZIFF 2012 The New Zealand International Film Festival today announced a further four sneak titles for the 2012 Festival. West of Memphis Peter Jackson’s West of ... More >>
NZIFF Announces Short Film Competition with Cash Prizes
Wednesday, 28 March 2012, 12:35 pm | NZ International Film Festival
The New Zealand International Film Festival (NZIFF) today introduced its first ever competitive strand with three cash prizes for New Zealand short films. More >>
New Zealand International Film Festival to Move in 2012
Thursday, 10 November 2011, 2:32 pm | NZ International Film Festival
The New Zealand International Film Festival today announced key dates which will see the event screening a little later next year. The Festival is confirmed to screen in Auckland, Wellington, Dunedin and Christchurch. More >>
NZ Film Festival Secures Award-Winners From Cannes
Monday, 20 June 2011, 11:15 am | NZ International Film Festival
The New Zealand International Film Festival has announced that a record-breaking number of Cannes award winners will have their New Zealand premiere screenings on this year’s programme. More >>
Medically Accurate Movie Crawls Back Into Cinemas
Monday, 30 August 2010, 1:01 pm | NZ International Film Festival
The most talked about film of the 2010 New Zealand International Film Festival returns for a limited season starting this Thursday September 2nd. More >>
Dunedin Audiences Buck Film Festival Trend In 2010
Wednesday, 11 August 2010, 12:20 pm | NZ International Film Festival
Local attendance at the New Zealand International Film Festival in 2010 has surpassed 2009 results by almost 600, reversing the trend of a small decline in Auckland and Wellington admissions this year. More >>
New Zealand International Film Festival 2010
Tuesday, 10 August 2010, 11:05 am | NZ International Film Festival
The annual New Zealand International Film Festival has long been the premier film event of the year, and the cultural highlight of the New Zealand winter. More >>
Strange Birds in Paradise - West Papua Movie At Festival
Wednesday, 7 July 2010, 1:45 pm | NZ International Film Festival
Strange Birds in Paradise – A West Papuan Story A documentary by Charlie Hill-Smith While the Indonesian army continues to dominate the indigenous inhabitants of West Papua, three friends gather in Melbourne to record outlawed folk songs with renowned ... More >>
Local documentaries to screen at Film Festival
Friday, 7 May 2010, 10:47 am | NZ International Film Festival
New Zealand-made films are among the early announcements for the NZ International Film Festival programme for 2010. The 2010 Festival programme is not due to be released until mid-June but Festival organisers today confirmed two NZ-made documentaries ... More >>
Grant injects life into Film Festival in Chch
Monday, 6 July 2009, 4:17 pm | NZ International Film Festival
The Canterbury Community Trust is providing a lifeline for the NZ International Film Festival this year with a $10,000 grant announced. More >>
Record-breaking first day for Festival
Wednesday, 24 June 2009, 9:39 am | NZ International Film Festival
The NZ International Film Festival’s first day of advance sales in Wellington has exceeded all previous records. More >>
Festival film set to divide audiences
Friday, 19 June 2009, 9:54 am | NZ International Film Festival
Controversial Cannes film Antichrist has been secured for the NZ International Film Festival 2009 in Auckland, Wellington and Dunedin. A late confirmation to the programme, the film’s participation was not cemented until after the Auckland programme had ... More >>
Campion’s Bright Star to open Festival
Wednesday, 17 June 2009, 9:29 am | NZ International Film Festival
Direct from competition at Cannes, Bright Star will open the NZ International Film Festival in July. Festival director Bill Gosden today announced that the film, directed by NZ-born Jane Campion, will open both the Auckland and Wellington legs of the Festival ... More >>
Small film with big heart to premiere at Festival
Monday, 8 June 2009, 5:34 pm | NZ International Film Festival
Locally filmed and produced documentary This Way of Life has scored it’s first hit with selection in the New Zealand International Film Festival in July. Shot on location in the Ruahine Ranges and Waimarama Beach, the film follows the Hawke’s ... More >>
Film Festival evolves in 2009
Tuesday, 19 May 2009, 2:18 pm | NZ International Film Festival
15 New Zealand cities and towns will this year host the annual International Film Festival which for the first time will relinquish its various regional names to be called the New Zealand International Film Festival. More >>
Herzog And Anvil! Two Late Additions Confirmed
Thursday, 17 July 2008, 12:51 am | NZ International Film Festival
It is with great excitement that the New Zealand International Film Festivals announces two late additions to the programmes of the Auckland International and Wellington Film Festivals: the astonishing Antarctica documentary Encounters at the End of the ... More >>
International Filmmakers At Film Festival
Monday, 14 July 2008, 10:45 am | NZ International Film Festival
Every year the New Zealand International Film Festivals offer audiences the one-off chance to get insights into what motivates and inspires those who work behind the camera by inviting filmmakers to take part in question and answer sessions at screenings ... More >>
Ward’s Rain Of The Children premieres
Monday, 14 July 2008, 10:43 am | NZ International Film Festival
Vincent Ward’s Rain Of The Children premieres in spectacular fashion at the 40th Auckland International Film Festival. More >>
Wild Untamed Cinema Unleashed
Saturday, 12 July 2008, 11:56 am | NZ International Film Festival
Launched upon an unsuspecting conservative NZ climate in 1994, the Incredibly Strange Film Festival was was greeted with cheers from movie maniacs and jeers from self appointed moral guardians of the state. For ten years the festival brought provocative, ... More >>
International Acclaim For 'Rain Of The Children'
Friday, 4 July 2008, 3:26 pm | NZ International Film Festival
Vincent Ward’s Rain of the Children has received stunning reviews after its world premiere, where it screened in competition at the Sydney Film Festival. More >>