Friday, 2 July 2021, 1:03 pm
19 screen projects have been offered a total of $1.5
million of development funding in the first round of Ara ki
Te Puna Kairangi – The Premium Development Fund.
The
successful projects represent a broad array of ideas with
the potential to engage both local and international
audiences, and include two feature films, 11 drama series,
two documentary, and four animation projects.
The
overall purpose of the Premium Fund, (which includes
development and production funding), is ‘to support high
quality productions that tell New Zealand stories for global
audiences’ and that is underpinned by five key objectives
that speak to economic benefit, employment, cultural