Shooting the Stars

NZ life and culture explored

Four writers selected for the residency programme at the Michael King Writers’ Centre next year will explore diverse aspects of New Zealand life and culture.

Finding your rhythm

Fresh from recording sound on hip-hop feature film Born to Dance, Ande Schurr has picked up a few new moves to help freelancers find their rhythm.

Theatreview Weekly: 13/11/2014

The latest Theatreview Weekly includes reviews of One Day Moko, Vanilla Miraka, Oneone, and The Blind Date Project.

Gender information on NZ filmmakers

This NZ Film Commission research paper includes gender information based on feature film development funding applications, including script, early and advanced development funding applications.

Performance Ethics Episode 8: The University process

This podcast explores how performers, directors and researchers negotiate a University ethics process initially developed for medical, animal, sociological and anthropological research.

Tane Lives at Art in the Dark

Johnson Witehira tells us about his latest work Tane Lives at Art in the Dark in Auckland and the need to put more "Maori-ness in the mono-cultural landscape that is Aotearoa."

Pushing boundaries

Dave Boivin is quite a character with a passion for giving stories a life beyond the page, stage and screen, as Anna Jackson reveals in this interview.

New Te Papa chief executive

Rick Ellis has been appointed to take up the role of Te Papa chief executive for the museum, starting on 24 November.

ScreenTalk: Katrina Hobbs

Katrina Hobbs is a TV presenter and actor who has had roles in New Zealand, Australia and even Russia.

CIRCUIT CAST: William Kentridge, Simon Denny, Gloria Knight

The CIRCUIT Cast panel discuss William Kentridge’s The Refusal of Time and talk to Simon Denny mid-install for The Personal Effects of Kim Dotcom.

CIRCUIT CAST: Symposium interviews: George Clark (Tate Modern), Simon Rees (Govett-Brewster)

Mark Amery talk to George Clark and Simon Rees about the CIRCUIT symposium and the Govett-Brewster programming at Tate Modern.