Press Releases

Europe may be the setting for the 33rd America’s Cup currently underway in Valencia but New Zealand will be deep in the heart of the action – both on and off the water.

Kiwi short film 'The Six Dollar Fifty Man' has won a top prize - the Jury Prize in International Short Film-making - at the Sundance International Film Festival in Utah.

Talented Kiwi film-makers have been showcasing the beauty of New Zealand this week, at the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival (4 - 12 February 2011).

Kiwi adventurer Erik Bradshaw has made New Zealand alpine history as the first person to ski the length of the Southern Alps.

New Zealand is not the first country that springs to mind as a tea grower but a new brew with 100% pure origins is about to line up against the most famous global brands at the World Tea Expo in Las Vegas.

New Zealand singer Will Martin has become the youngest tenor in musical history to reach #1 in the British classical charts.

A party of mountain-loving New Zealanders is carrying on Sir Edmund Hillary’s torch – an ongoing friendship between Kiwis and the Sherpas of Nepal – by helping foster a quiet revolution on the side of Mount Everest.

Three enterprising students, soon to be winging their way from Christchurch in New Zealand’s South Island to Los Angeles to meet US talk show host Ellen DeGeneres, are the latest beneficiaries of online social networking.

Two plucky young New Zealanders have driven their way into the record books after crossing Cook Strait – the passage between the North and South Islands – in a rather unlikely amphibian van.

A Kiwi wildlife worker is leaving her daily routine of tending endangered species, to line up in London as New Zealand’s only whistle-blower at the Women’s Rugby World Cup.