Interested in becoming a corporate partner of WIFT NZ? Here is an information sheet and membership form.
Here's a list of the discounts available to WIFT NZ Full and Friend Members in 2010. For more details on individual discount providers, check out the Partners section of our website.
This recent Film Industry Study by Dr. Martha Lauzen, a professor at San Diego State University, details the small - and in some fields declining - proportion of women directors, executive producers, producers, writers, cinematographers, and editors working on American films.
This guide to feature film production funding, covering both Australia and the United Kingdom, was prepared by by Tim Thorpe Consulting for the NZ Film Commission.
This Television Funding Database prepared by Tim Thorpe Consulting describe funds available for television production in 17 countries.
Following on from the WIFT Documentary Hui in 2007, Creative NZ and NZFC commissioned a report researching New Zealand’s independent documentary sector. The report identifies current barriers and opportunities and presents the views of documentary makers on ways to support the career paths of those in the sector and enhance documentary making opportunities in New Zealand.
In 2009, the NZ Government announced a review of the New Zealand Film Commission to be led by New Zealand film-maker Peter Jackson and David Court, Head of Screen Business at the Australian Film, Television & Radio School. WIFT NZ was one of 57 submitters whose submissions to the review team cam be read in this document.
These guidelines, prepared by NZ Casting Directors in consultation with NZ Actors Agents, outline reasonable expectations in the casting process in the context of the New Zealand screen industry.