DOCNZ E-Newsletter

#14-April 2008

Kia Ora from DOCNZ. The Trust has just launched a Membership Programme which will allow you to become a member of DOCNZ. The annual membership is a donation (tax-deductible) and will provide you with some great incentives for DOCNZ 2009. More details below. Here is the latest from DOCNZ.

The DOCNZ Team

1. DOCNZ Membership Programme

We are a not-for-profit charitable organisation that relies on the generosity of the community.

A festival is a time consuming and expensive event to plan, organise, promote and to put into action. While the DOCNZ Festival runs for around two months, The Trust is busy year round preparing for the national event, sourcing and selecting the films, printing programmes and marketing materials and working as an advocate and educator for New Zealand documentary filmmakers. While some of our expenditure is covered by the festival’s box office sales, corporate sponsorship and community funding, unfortunately this is not enough for The Trust to be able to continue its activities effectively.

The Trust invites you to join us in our efforts to provide a home for our documentary filmmakers, to act as an industry advocate and spokesperson and to achieve our goal of becoming the capital of documentary films in the Southern Hemisphere.

Membership Levels

Crew Pass $300

10 complimentary tickets for the DOCNZ 2009
Your Donation will be recognised in the DOCNZ 2009 programme

Producer Pass $600

DOCNZ Festival Pass 2009 (member access with ID to all sessions at your local festival; subject to availability)
Your Donation will be recognised in the DOCNZ 2009 programme

Director Pass $1,000

Invitation to Opening & Awards Night 2009 (Meeting filmmakers and industry delegates)
Invitations to functions run by the Trust
DOCNZ 2009 Festival Pass (bearer access to all sessions at your local festival)
Your Donation will be recognised in the DOCNZ 2009 programme

Thank you! All donations are gratefully received. For more information and Registration Form, please visit: DOCNZ Membership Programme

2. DOCNZ 2009 - Campaign Contest

Get ready! The Trust will announce next month a competition for the design of DOCNZ 2009’s campaign. The brief will include the design of the festival’s tagline, the festival’s poster, programme cover page, billboard as well as print ads.

We will encourage emerging and professional designers to enter their concepts and ideas for selection. The chosen campaign will be used for DOCNZ 2009 and receive a cash award. Full details will be included in the next newsletter in late May.

3. Other Festivals - Call for Submissions

Festival dei Popoli

The 49th Festival dei Popoli International Documentary Film Festival will take place from the 14th to 21nd of November 2008 in Florence, Italy.

The deadlines for entries are:

30 June 2008 for films produced before 30 April 2008;

10 August 2008 for films either produced after 30 April 2008 or still in production.

The Festival includes the following sections: International Competition, Main Programme, tributes/retrospectives, seminars, panel discussions. www.festivaldeipopoli.org

Homegrown (NZ)

Deadline extended to 30 April 2008

www.mic.org.nz

FIFO 2009 Tahiti

Deadline 1 October 2008

www.filmfestivaloceanie.org

4. Festival Highlight

DOK.FEST Munich

The 23rd International Documentary Film Festival Munich will be held from 1st to 7th May 2008. DOK.FEST is Germany’s biggest festival for creative documentaries with feature length. It showcases première screenings alongside the international highlights of the year; creative documentaries produced for cinema release as well as the most interesting examples of new talent from all over the world.

www.dokfest-muenchen.de/index.php

5. Filmmakers News

Congratulations to Annie Goldson and Pietra Brettkelly for their film selection to Hot Docs 2008.

Annie’s film, An Island Calling is Owen Scott’s journey back to Fiji to make sense of the murder of his brother John Scott and John’s partner Greg Scrivener.

Pietra’s film, The Art Star and the Sudanese Twins, is about Vanessa Beecroft’s obsessively determination to adopt Sudanese twin orphans. Her consuming passion drives her marriage to a breaking point and fuels her controversial art, raising troubling questions about exploitation, culture clash, and the imposition of the West on Africa.

Both filmmakers are attending Hot Docs which runs in Toronto, Canada 17-27 this month.

6. DOCNZ Deadlines Reminder

DOCNZ 2009:

The early deadline for submission is: 30 June 2008 (postmarked)
The official deadline for submission is: 31 July 2008 (postmarked)
The extended deadline (fee applies): 14 August 2008 (postmarked)

DOCNZ Pitching Forum:

The official deadline for submission is: 4.00pm, 31 July 2008

For regulations and entry forms: www.docnz.org.nz

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The DOCNZ Team