Art & Culture

New Zealand’s first authentic Chinese garden – only the third outside of China and the first in the Southern Hemisphere – has been officially opened in the South Island city of Dunedin.

Movie fans and tourists keen for an insight into the workings of Weta, New Zealand’s Academy Award-wining visual effects studio, are already flocking to the company’s new showcase – ‘Weta Cave’.

A moving film that became a personal journey for award winning New Zealand director Vincent Ward has had its world premiere at the Sydney Film Festival.

A New Zealand archaeologist has uncovered an untouched "time capsule" of Maori life which dates back almost 200 years.

Thousands of excited Hobbit fans have hit the net to get the low down on Peter Jackson's latest movie.

The latest in the movie adaptation of C. S. Lewis' Narnia books has hit the big screen notching up another triumph for the New Zealand film industry.

Auditions have started in Johannesburg for a big-budget sci-fi film produced by Peter Jackson.

The most valuable collection of paintings to ever visit New Zealand will be on display at Wellington’s Te Papa Museum in 2009.

Further success for Kiwi folk-comedy duo Flight of the Conchords - their first full length album has scored a stunning debut on the US Pop charts.

Acclaimed Mexican film-maker Guillermo del Toro is moving to New Zealand’s capital city Wellington to take a journey back to Middle-earth, directing The Hobbit movie and its sequel for the next four years.