Press Releases

Two Kiwi feature films will share the screen at next year’s 60th anniversary Berlinale – Berlin International Film Festival.

One of New Zealand’s rising stars in the wine industry is tapping in to a set of multi million dollar taste buds to help promote its brand.

Auckland – the city of sails – will host three prestigious international sailing events in March 2010 during the Auckland Festival of Sail.

Ground-breaking New Zealand technology will be showcased around the world this weekend as Avatar – Hollywood producer James Cameron’s latest cinematic experience opens to international movie audiences.

It might sound like a golfer's pipe dream but a plan by two young Kiwi lawyers to travel the world playing a different golf course every day in 2010, has more behind it than pure indulgence.

Peter Jackson’s 'The Lovely Bones' has premiered in Wellington - coming home to where the film’s heart is, says the famous New Zealand film producer.

New Plymouth’s Pukekura Park, one of New Zealand’s best known gardens of national significance, is about to become a sparkling wonderland for the annual TSB Bank Festival of Lights.

Major Indian Bollywood producers Dharma Productions will film in Queenstown in late January 2010, putting New Zealand on screen in front of up to 150 million viewers.

The largest fleet of waka, or ceremonial Māori canoes, in recorded history will gather at Waitangi in New Zealand’s Bay of Islands in February 2010 for the national Waitangi Day celebrations.

It’s called the silly season and no wonder! While most Kiwis celebrate Christmas in a traditional way, the summer sun and pending holidays sometimes incite out-of-the-ordinary festive behaviour in New Zealand.