Art & Culture

An American film-maker living in New Zealand has had an overwhelming response at film festivals throughout the United States to a movie he made about his new home.

Move over Babe, a select group of New Zealand pigs is being primed for starring roles in a big-budget motion picture to be filmed in Wellington and the South Island next year.

New Zealand soprano Hayley Westenra has won the ‘classical performer of the year’ award at the Variety Club’s annual show business awards in London.

Fine Hawke’s Bay wines will definitely be on the menu for musical legend Lionel Richie when he headlines at next year’s Mission Estate Winery Concert (February 28, 2009).

The diversity of New Zealand’s cultures and some of the country’s spectacular landscapes feature in a major new movie that’s just hit the silver screen.

New Zealand’s stunning landscapes and huge pool of highly skilled film professionals have earned the country more than $NZ915 million in the last five years.

A New Zealand farm north of Auckland has been given the green light to open up its pastures for domestic and international film producers.

Marlborough - New Zealand’s premier wine-growing region - has been ranked among the world’s top 10 wine destinations by online travel community TripAdvisor.com.

Leading New Zealand garden designer Doug Waugh has died of cancer, aged 52.

The rural North Island town of Taihape is bracing itself for a flurry of unusual flying objects when competitors take part in the indigenous New Zealand sport of gumboot throwing