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The Qantas Film and Television Awards ceremony took place at the mighty Civic Theatre over the weekend, and NZ On Screen Content Director Irene Gardiner donned her glad rags to represent us.
Visitor from Hawkes Bay and Irene Gardiner on the red carpet
In the feature film category, Dean Spanley proved the big winner on the day, taking away seven of its 12 nominations. These included best movie with a budget of more than $1 million, best director for Toa Fraser, and best supporting actor for British acting legend Peter O’Toole. You can watch nominated actor Sam Neill talking about the film here.
Best low-budget feature went to the hit Topp Twins documentary Untouchable Girls (NZ On Screen has a nine-minute excerpt from the film). Sima Urale’s debut feature Apron Strings also featured strongly, with awards for lead actors Jennifer Ludlam, Scott Wills, cinematographer Rewa Harre, and production designer Johnny Hawkins.
On the short film front, the team of Mark Albiston and Louis Sutherland scored big again with their Cannes-awarded short The Six Dollar Fifty Man, which won best short, best screenplay, and best performance (Oscar Vandy-Connor).
When it came to television, the big drama awards went largely to Until Proven Innocent, the TV movie based on the conviction of Kiwi David Dougherty. Until Proven Innocent won best drama programme, acting gongs for Cohen Holloway (who played Dougherty) and Peter Elliott, plus a camera award for David Paul. Paul Sutorius, currently working down the hall from our offices on new series Kaitangata Twitch, took away another editing gong.
Fiona Samuel’s adoption drama Piece of My Heart scored awards for young actors Emily Barclay and Keisha Castle-Hughes. Other winners included Jason Gunn and Dancing with the Stars, The Jaquie Brown Diaries, Hunger for the Wild and Play it Strange.
The news and current affairs awards were dominated by TV One.
You can find more details of those nominated – and the winners – here.
NZ On Screen would like to congratulate everyone who worked on any of the nominated productions.
Last week we had a gathering of all our freelance writers. The writers have been commissioned to write synopses and unique perspectives on each of the titles in the site.
It was an opportunity for some of them to meet each other for the first time and also to get acquainted with Paul, the new editor. We also welcomed a new writers to the group, Debbie Martin, Makerita Urale and Tony Hiles. Other writers who have worked with us since February are Costa Botes, Mary Jane Duffy, Karen Nobes, Rachel Davies, Monika Ahuriri, Mihi (Midge) Murray, Richard King, Annie Simon and Michelle Scullion.
Today we also spent more hours at The Dominion Post scanning photos from their archive. As an example of some of the fantastic material that is in there, here is a photo of the ‘mobile news’ trucks in 1976. The back ground to the photo is that Muldoon wouldn’t go out to Avalon studios to be interviewed for ‘Eye Witness’ a current affairs programme. According to one of Mr Muldoon’s Press officers “This would have taken two hours of the Prime Minister’s time and he is too busy for that”
So they took all the equipment to the Beehive to do the show instead.
Beehive with news trucks 1976
NZ On Screen is pleased to welcome Paul Stanley Ward on board as our new editor!
Paul is a Wellington-based writer who has experience in writing both for web (as Editor of the New Zealand Edge website) and for television (most recently working with Gibson Group and Sticky Pictures in producer, researcher and writer roles). He has also written two nzfc-funded short film scripts.
Paul is ideally placed to coordinate the group of writers working with NZ On Screen, and to set the tone and style of copy throughout the site (he has a degree in English Lit from Oxford to answer knotty apostrophe questions).
Aside from all that, he’s working on a secret project that will bring the calls of New Zealand birds to the masses … more on that later.
NZ On Screen is hiring …
We’re looking for an online web editor (not a video/film editor).
Who we are:
- A small team of dynamic, motivated, friendly and hard-working people who are creating an iconic New Zealand website.
- NZ On Screen will be a showcase of moving image and sound content created in NZ or by NZ’ers.
- We are the people who are putting it all together.
Who you are:
- You are a person with a passion for editorial detail. You know where apostrophe’s go and can spot a spelling mistake a mile off.
- You know what style guidelines are and how to keep consistent tone through different pieces of writing.
- You know that writing for the web is different from other media, that online users have to be addressed in an online style, and ideally you know how to do this.
- You have a strong interest in, and ideally knowledge of, the NZ film and television industry through the ages.
- You have more than a passing familiarity with computers and the programmes they run (especially macs).
- You can spell internet, you know what it can do and are keen to be part of where it can go.
- You have a good working knowledge of colloquial Maori language and the evolving Kiwi vernacular.
- You can make order from chaos, enjoy working with creative people and keeping track of many things at once.
- You are familiar with information management, and content management systems and are not afraid to use them.
- You like small teams, are independent, motivated, self-managing and not afraid to defend your point of view.
- You are based in Wellington.
If you like the sound of us, and we’ve captured your key skills and interests in a nutshell … and you’re looking for 20-32 hours work / week … and you’re available asap … then send in your CV and a cover letter to Brenda (brenda at nzonscreen.com) by May 10th and we’ll talk.
