Press Releases

Sculptor Michael Parekowhai has been named as New Zealand’s artist ambassador to the 2011 Venice Biennale.

Summer drought conditions in the New Zealand's Northland region are causing strife for the local kiwi population.

New Zealand's film industry is on a roll, this time at the 2010 BAFTAs (British Film & Television Awards).

Three New Zealand films have won major awards at the prestigious Berlin International Film Festival.

A piece of precious Maori art will leave New Zealand shores next week, bound for this year’s Shanghai World Expo.

Fans of award-winning US medical drama Grey’s Anatomy had a little taste of New Zealand recently – in the form of a song by Kiwi band Minuit.

A low-budget New Zealand documentary film has sold out all three 1000-seat screenings at the prestigious Berlin International Film Festival.

Re-tracing the footsteps of New Zealand’s early settlers across some of the country’s most remote and dramatic landscape has become an annual pilgrimage in Central Otago, New Zealand.

New Zealand tourism operator Whale Watch Kaikoura has been named as a finalist for a major international award at the 2010 Tourism in Tomorrow Awards, to be held in Beijing on 26 May.

Some of Hollywood’s most famous movie stars could be carrying a touch of New Zealand with them on the red carpet at this year’s Oscars – thanks to a Kiwi jewellery-making family’s big break.