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Documentary New Zealand Trust
Set up in 2004, The Documentary New Zealand Trust is a non-profit organisation promoting documentary filmmaking and advocating opportunities for New Zealand documentary filmmakers. Its signature events are an international film festival, DOC Pitch and DOC Lab. It engages with the government, funding agencies, creative organisations, academic institutions and other screen industry guilds to ensure maximum support and funding for documentary filmmakers in New Zealand. The Organisation The Trustees *Alex Lee *Dan Shanan Doc Edge Festival and Awards The DOCNZ International Documentary Film Festival was launched in 2005 in Auckland by the then Prime Minister, Helen Clark. It was rebranded as Documentary Edge Festival in 2010, then Doc Edge, and is held annually in Auckland and Wellington. The Documentary Edge Awards are awarded at the festival. The Screen Edge Forum The Screen Edge Forum (previously known as DOCNZ Summit and Documentary Edge Forum) is an annual pan-s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Auckland
Auckland (pronounced ) ( mi, Tāmaki Makaurau) is a large metropolitan city in the North Island of New Zealand. The List of New Zealand urban areas by population, most populous urban area in the country and the List of cities in Oceania by population, fifth largest city in Oceania, Auckland has an urban population of about It is located in the greater Auckland Region—the area governed by Auckland Council—which includes outlying rural areas and the islands of the Hauraki Gulf, and which has a total population of . While European New Zealanders, Europeans continue to make up the plurality of Auckland's population, the city became multicultural and Cosmopolitanism, cosmopolitan in the late-20th century, with Asian New Zealanders, Asians accounting for 31% of the city's population in 2018. Auckland has the fourth largest Foreign born, foreign-born population in the world, with 39% of its residents born overseas. With its large population of Pasifika New Zealanders, the city is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wellington
Wellington ( mi, Te Whanganui-a-Tara or ) is the capital city of New Zealand. It is located at the south-western tip of the North Island, between Cook Strait and the Remutaka Range. Wellington is the second-largest city in New Zealand by metro area, and is the administrative centre of the Wellington Region. It is the world's southernmost capital of a sovereign state. Wellington features a temperate maritime climate, and is the world's windiest city by average wind speed. Legends recount that Kupe discovered and explored the region in about the 10th century, with initial settlement by Māori iwi such as Rangitāne and Muaūpoko. The disruptions of the Musket Wars led to them being overwhelmed by northern iwi such as Te Āti Awa by the early 19th century. Wellington's current form was originally designed by Captain William Mein Smith, the first Surveyor General for Edward Wakefield's New Zealand Company, in 1840. The Wellington urban area, which only includes urbanised ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Documentary Edge Festival
The Doc Edge, formerly DOCNZ International Documentary Film Festival or simply DOCNZ Film Festival, and then Documentary Edge Festival, is New Zealand's Academy Award-qualifying international documentary film festival, run annually by the Documentary New Zealand Trust since 2005. History The first Documentary Edge Festival, previously known as DOCNZ International Documentary Film Festival, or simply DOCNZ Film Festival, was launched in 2005 in Auckland by the then Prime Minister, Helen Clark. The Festival was rebranded as Documentary Edge Festival in 2010, and has been branded Doc Edge since around 2016. Traditionally held in May to June in Auckland and Wellington theatres, the festival chose to pivot during the coronavirus outbreak in 2020, taking the full festival online, opening up to a nationwide audience for the first time and increasing the size of the programme. Description Doc Edge is held annually, from April to June, in Auckland and Wellington Wellington ( mi, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Clark
Helen Elizabeth Clark (born 26 February 1950) is a New Zealand politician who served as the 37th prime minister of New Zealand from 1999 to 2008, and was the administrator of the United Nations Development Programme from 2009 to 2017. She was New Zealand's fifth-longest-serving prime minister, and the second woman to hold that office. Clark was brought up on a farm outside Hamilton. She entered the University of Auckland in 1968 to study politics, and became active in the New Zealand Labour Party. After graduating she lectured in political studies at the university. Clark entered local politics in 1974 in Auckland but was not elected to any position. Following one unsuccessful attempt, she was elected to Parliament in as the member for Mount Albert, an electorate she represented until 2009. Clark held numerous Cabinet positions in the Fourth Labour Government, including minister of housing, minister of health and minister of conservation. She was the 11th deputy prime ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Documentary Edge Awards
This article lists awards won at the New Zealand film festival formerly known as the DOCNZ Film Festival, then Documentary Edge Festival and now branded Doc Edge, since its inaugural edition in 2005 until 2012. Awards 2012 International Selection New Zealand Selection Awards 2011 International Selection New Zealand Selection Awards 2010 International Selection New Zealand Selection Awards 2009 International Selection New Zealand Selection Awards 2008 No Festival this year. Awards 2007 International Selection New Zealand Selection Awards 2006 International Selection New Zealand Selection Awards 2005 See also * List of television awards This list of television awards is a index to articles on notable awards that are given to television shows in different countries and categories. The list is organized by region and country. Typically the awards are given only for local production ... References Sources *2005–2011: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julia Parnell
Julia Parnell (born 1979) is a New Zealand film and television producer and documentary director. For the last eleven years she has led the production company Notable Pictures. Her career started in 1999 and she has produced and directed hundreds of hours of documentary content including two feature films, thirty series, eleven one off docs and a documentary podcast. Career In 2010, Parnell won the Great Southern Television Woman to Watch Award. Parnell left Butobase in early July 2010 to start her own production company, Notable Pictures. Since the opening of Notable Pictures, Parnell has produced projects including two series of '' Bring Your Boots, OZ'' in collaboration with Māori Television's Glen Osborne, a documentary funded by Māori Television and New Zealand On Air about Henare O'Keefe, Māori social crusader and District Councilor for Hastings, New Zealand, '' Both Worlds'', a New Zealand On Air-funded documentary series for broadcast on TV3. in which ten second ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Topp Twins
The Topp Twins (born 14 May 1958) are the folk singing and activist sister comedy duo of New Zealand entertainers Jools and Lynda Topp. They are known for their country music influenced style, live shows and television performances. They often perform as characters, the most notable being the roles ''Ken & Ken'', and ''Camp Mother & Camp Leader''. Career The Topp Twins have performed as a country music-singing comedy duo since the 1970s. They started singing together and performing when they were children. Busking in Auckland on Queen Street in the 1980s was formative to their dynamic as entertainers with a regular Friday night appearance. They were singing political songs of protest, about topics such as Māori land rights at Bastion Point and Nuclear Free New Zealand. Both have been openly lesbian since the 1970s, and were advocates for homosexual law reform. The Topp Twins developed characters for the banter and audience interaction around their music. As Jools said: "We ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annie Goldson
Anne 'Annie' Veronica Goldson is a New Zealand journalism and film academic specialising in documentaries. Her films include Punitive Damage, Georgie Girl, Brother Number One and Kim Dotcom: ''Caught in the Web''. Career Goldson has a BSc from Otago University, a Diploma in Journalism from Canterbury University, a Master of Arts from New York University and a PhD from the University of Auckland. The title of her doctoral thesis was ''A claim to truth: documentary, politics, production''. She is currently a professor at of Media and Communication at the University of Auckland. Honours and recognition Goldson was made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2007 for services to film and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 2007. She was awarded the Humanities Aronui Medal by Royal Society Te Apārangi in 2021. Selected works * Goldson, A. (12/3/2017)Kim Dotcom: Caught in the Web South by South West Festival, Austin, Texas (premiere). *Goldson ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Campbell Cooley
Campbell Cooley is an American voice and television actor based in New Zealand, best known for voicing prominent villains in the ''Power Rangers'' franchise. Biography Early life He attended the University of Louisville where he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Theatre. For several years he worked as a stage actor and director. Acting career In 1997, he moved into acting for film and television. In 1998 (during a four-month period), he played three different villainous roles on Xena: Warrior Princess. One of the roles gave him the distinction of being victim to Gabrielle (Renee O'Connor) in the ''"infamous Drool scene"'', is named by Xena fans, from the episode, In Sickness and In Hell. In 2005 he appeared in New Zealand's medical soap opera Shortland Street as nurse 'Liam Todd', caregiver to Dr. Chris Warner's twin sister, Amanda Warner ( Marissa Stott). In 2007 he got his first major role in the ''Power Rangers'' franchise, the new voice of Alpha 6 in the '' O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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