Press Releases

Beach lovers can bid a final hurrah to summer with two challenging outdoor events, based entirely around the sand and surf of 90 Mile Beach, in New Zealand’s Far North.

The world’s largest Pacific festival - bringing together New Zealand’s multi-cultural community in a vibrant, island-style celebration - has expanded for 2010.

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.