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Next funding deadline

14 December 2018

For: Feature-length Pasifika or Asian Project RFPs

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Funding Mō ngā tono

Scripted & Factual

We support public media content for audiences on many different platforms. Over $80m a year is available across five funding rounds.

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Music

We fund great local songs. Between $7,500 and $30,000 is available per project, to be used for recording costs, making music videos, and promotion.

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Platform funding

We provide operating funding to a number of targeted platforms and services providing important public media content. This is a closed fund with only one round per year.

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News Ngā rongo o te wā

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Media Releases

10 Dec 2018

NZ screens and airwaves to be filled with stimulating new factual stories next year

Factual story-telling that reveals more of who we are, the land we live in, and the many and varied communities that make up our nation, in new line up for ...
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Media Releases

07 Dec 2018

Lighten up with lots of brand new screen comedy next year

Five brand new screen drama and comedy projects and one internationally successful returning series for local audiences next year
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Media Releases

03 Dec 2018

Public media journalism boosted with new government funding

Nine widely diverse journalism projects have now been selected to receive funding support through the new $6 million Joint Innovation Fund
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Media Releases

27 Nov 2018

Big uplift in demand for funded public media

A fundamental change more than a year ago has resulted in much more diverse public media and a 50% increase in the number of funding applications