DOCNZ

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Auckland, New Zealand February 25 - April 05, 2009
This festival travels to 4 cities throughout New Zealand during the festival run: Auckland, Wellington,
Call for Entry Deadline: July 31, 2008
The extended deadline (fee applies): August 14, 2008
Festival Data:
- Established: 2004
- Genre: Documentary (click to see)
- Total Number of Films Submitted: 500
- Total Number of Films Screened: 139
- Total Screenings: 319
- Total Domestic Films Screened: 43
- Total Foreign Films Screened: 87
- Total National and International Premieres: 24
- # of Shorts Screened: 87
- # of Features Screened: 52
- Competitive
- Film Market
- Has Panels
- Has Seminars
- Workshops
Festival Website:
www.docnzfestival.com
Festival Description:

DOCNZ is a competitive film festival that screens local and international documentaries. Films compete for the DOCNZ DOCUMENTARY AWARDS in the short, medium and feature length categories. While DOCNZ welcomes all documentary films, it encourages films to be submitted for consideration under the theme MEDIA WATCH which relates to the impact of media in society including access, control, the shifting power bases between the traditional state run media to the corporate media giants to the individual with the emergence of new media and digital film-making.

AWARDS given include:
Best International Short Documentary
Best New Zealand Short Documentary
Best International Feature Documentary
Best New Zealand Feature Documentary
Best Educational Documentary
Best Emerging Director
Film Submissions:
- Accepts direct submissions
- Submission formats: Beta-SP, 16mm, 35mm, DVD
Email: info(at)docnz.org.nz

Phone: (64-9) 309 2613

Fax: (64-9) 309 4084

Mailing Address: DOCNZ TRUST PO Box 90943 AMSC
Auckland 1001
New Zealand

Email:	info(at)docnz.org.nz
Phone:	(64-9) 309 2613
Fax:	(64-9) 309 4084
Mailing Address:	DOCNZ TRUST PO Box 90943 AMSC Auckland 1001 New Zealand

OCT 24, 2007 03:38PM FFW Festival Editor writes:

Award Winners for the 2007 DOCNZ

International Competition

Short Documentary: "A Summer Not to Forget"
Director: Carol Mansour

Special Mention: "Wittenoom"
Director: Caro MacDonald

Medium Documentary: "Please Vote for Me"
Director: Weijun Chen

Special Mention: "My Daughter the Terrorist"
Director: Beate Arnestad

Feature Documentary: "Knee Deep"
Director: Michael Chandler

Special Mention: "Terra Incognita"
Director: Maria Finitzo

New Zealand Competition

Short Documentary: "In the Night Kitchen"
Director: Simon Burgin

Medium Documentary: "Darling! The Pieter-Dirk Uys Story"
Director: Julian Shaw

Feature Documentary: "The Nuclear Comeback"
Director: Justin Pemberton

Best Educational Documentary: "Please Vote for Me"
Director: Weijun Chen
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