NZ On Screen is a state-funded online promotional showcase of New Zealand television and film. Funded by NZ On Air, it provides free worldwide access to NZ-produced television, film and music videos. Content is streamed and the webpages provide authoritative background information. The site was launched in October 2008 and is updated constantly. It provides titles in full or as excerpts, with background notes, photographs and profiles of key cast and crew. All material is rights-cleared and there is some content now on the site that had not been seen since its mid-twentieth century screening. The ScreenTalk section is a videoblog with interviews with people from the NZ television and film industry – including

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, Vincent Ward and Sam Neill. The site won a

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for Best Entertainment site in May 2009, and was finalist for Best Website Design.

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External links

NZ On Screen
official site
ScreenTalk interviews

NZ On Air

Article on Lively Blog
from the MCH website
Interview with NZ On Screen director Brenda Leeuwenberg
on the site's first anniversary. The Big Idea, October 2009 New Zealand digital libraries Film organisations in New Zealand Television in New Zealand 2008 establishments in New Zealand Internet properties established in 2008 {{NewZealand-media-stub