An impressive array of film activity in and around the city this year looks likely to continue.

· Congratulations to the Good Company Arts team for the acclaimed international premiere of their latest film "Astrolabe - whakaterenga" at the National Museum of Singapore on 5 December. 

· Also just released is a beautiful video for Nadia Reid’s new single ‘Best Thing’.

· Over the next few months crews will visit Dunedin to films scenes for a David Bain TV series based on the ‘Black Hands’ podcast and separately for the Jane Campion directed feature film, ‘The Power of the Dog’.

· Ms Lili Li, a respected Shanghai scriptwriter spent six weeks in Dunedin exploring the region for inspiration and investigating possible collaborative productions between the two cities. She returned to Shanghai in mid-October already working on potential ideas that could be fleshed out into future films. A report of Lili's visit can be found below. The first recipient of the exchange opportunity was Dunedin scriptwriter, David Hay, whose six weeks in Shanghai from late December 2018, produced ideas including one which is now in the pre-production stage. 

· In the last year Dunedin hosted crew to film scenes for the features ‘There is No I in Threesome’ written by Jan Oliver Lucks, a Six60 feature documentary, a feature based on the Shayne Carter autobiography ‘Dead People I have Known’. Natural History NZ produced the amazing ‘Wildlife Rescue New Zealand’ TV series that has been screening on Sunday evenings on Choice over the last month.

· The city also hosted numerous other projects filming TV Commercials such as this one for travel insurance and international travel and reality tv shows like an episode of the popular Taiwanese game show 'Mr Player' which had a million viewers.

Short Films

· The Short Film Otago-supported productions ‘Milk’ by Punakaiki Productions and ‘Winters Blight’ by Shine On Films have had multiple successes in international festivals this year with more in the year ahead.

· ‘Hot Chocolate’ by Legal Fiction will have a special screening in Dunedin on 12 December and has been selected for international festivals already.

· The next project by the Legal Fiction team of David Hay and Tess Whelan, ‘Canvass’ has been selected for the NZFC Fresh Shorts Development Lab.

· ‘Greenwitch’, produced by Ian Bowmer filmed in September

· ‘Triple Scoop’ by Ruby Harris was filmed in October.

· For the third year in a row Benaiah Dunn of Middlemarch was placed in the International Youth Silent Short Film award:

   -  2017 The Chase

   - 2018 Random Act of Kindness

   - 2019 Inspired by life.

For all film inquiries or to let Antony Deaker know about your screen projects email antony.deaker@dcc.govt.nz