Here are three of the funniest films from our 2018 programme. They show very different kinds of comedy and ways filmmakers can use humour to draw us into their stories.
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Show Me Shorts presents a night of German short films on 27 March at The Third Eye in Wellington. Join us to celebrate the cinema of Germany with a fun collection full of variety – comedy, fantasy, documentary, pianists, escaped bears and three brothers in a bathtub.
New Zealand wants your short film! Submissions are now open for the 14th edition of Show Me Shorts Film Festival.
Which short films will shine at the Oscars this year? The Academy Award nominations are out and Clayton gives us his guesses for who’ll take out the prizes. Watch the films here.
Congratulations to Gina Dellabarca, who has been appointed as a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to the film industry.
Writer/director Kyan Krumdieck and producer Arielle Sullivan have won the Calibrate Legal / Patrick McGrath Barrister People’s Choice Award for ‘Repugnant’!
We lay out the preparatory steps to directing a short film, with some handy tips from Ivan Barge – director of the award-winning New Zealand film ‘Madam Black’.
Toi Whakaari was New Zealand’s first drama school and remains Aotearoa’s leading performing arts school. Here we feature some of the best recent Toi Film shorts.
The winners of our 2018 awards have been unveiled. Congratulations to all of the filmmakers behind these winning short films.
We are happy to announce the nominees for our 2018 awards. The winners will be announced at the Auckland Opening Night and Awards Ceremony this Saturday 6 October at The Civic.
Script to Screen and Show Me Shorts Film Festival are calling for submissions to attend the 2019 Aotearoa Short Film Lab.
Announcing the programme for Show Me Shorts 2018. Check out all the films, and all the locations to enjoy them.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern welcomes the commencement of Show Me Shorts Film Festival.
We are delighted to be working alongside Sesame Workshop’s Films Department to give New Zealand filmmakers the opportunity to pitch a short film idea for Season 50 of Sesame Street!
In this month’s Screening Room we highlight three short films that look at life through a prism, asking: what is ‘normal’ anyway?
