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Secrets At Red Rocks 2

$2,250,000
Funding type:
Scripted
Production company:
Libertine Pictures (Red Rocks) Limited
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Funding Subtype:
Creation Scripted
Genre:
Children
Episodes & Duration:
8x22 mins
Primary Platform:
Sky Open
Date:
Jul 2025
Synopsis:
A supernatural story is brewing at Red Rocks, Jake must summon all his smarts and strength to stop wild, ancient forces from claiming his baby sister.

Rupture 26 (Development)

$0
Funding type:
Scripted
Production company:
The Story Project
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Funding Subtype:
Content Development
Genre:
Drama
Episodes & Duration:
6x0 mins
Date:
Jul 2025
Synopsis:
Rupture works with bold mid-career writer-creators to accelerate their story craft and their careers, and to foster a rigorous story development culture.

Day One Shorts 2026

$405,000
Funding type:
Scripted
Production company:
Connected Media Charitable Trust
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Funding Subtype:
Creation Scripted
Genre:
Youth
Episodes & Duration:
8x10 mins
Primary Platform:
Connected Media Charitable Trust
Date:
Jul 2025
Synopsis:
Day One Shorts 2026 is a series of eight short scripted or factual screen stories by young emerging content creators from across Aotearoa.

How Was Your Day?

$164,944
Funding type:
Scripted
Production company:
Mad Carnival Entertainment
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Funding Subtype:
Creation Scripted
Genre:
Games
Primary Platform:
HEIHEI Games
Date:
Apr 2025
Synopsis:
A narrative-driven point-and-click puzzle game, How Was Your Day? is a supernatural coming of age mystery set in 80s Aotearoa New Zealand.

Nz Spy

$1,998,000
Funding type:
Scripted
Production company:
Kevin’s Intelligence Agency
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Funding Subtype:
Creation Scripted
Genre:
Comedy
Episodes & Duration:
6x22 mins
Primary Platform:
TVNZ 2
Date:
Apr 2025
Synopsis:
It's the 1970's and New Zealand's Spy agency is looking for new recruits to foil an attack from our biggest enemy - Australia.

The Last Moa

$685,997
Funding type:
Scripted
Production company:
Vinewood
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Funding Subtype:
Creation Scripted
Genre:
Children
Episodes & Duration:
10x5 mins
Primary Platform:
Sky Open
Date:
Apr 2025
Synopsis:
The Last Moa is an animated comedy series in which a kiwi finds a frozen egg that hatches into moa, the last of her kind.

Please Don't Break Anything - The First Night

$687,477
Funding type:
Scripted
Production company:
Kevin & Content
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Funding Subtype:
Creation Scripted
Genre:
Youth
Episodes & Duration:
5x7 mins
Primary Platform:
YouTube
Date:
Apr 2025
Synopsis:
At a chaotic high school party, a teenage girl proclaims that one of her classmates will be murdered before midnight

Music With Michal 2

$399,220
Funding type:
Scripted
Production company:
Music with Michal Studios
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Funding Subtype:
Creation Scripted
Genre:
Children
Episodes & Duration:
20x6 mins
Primary Platform:
YouTube
Date:
Apr 2025
Synopsis:
Music with Michal is songs, fun, and learning for preschoolers in Aotearoa and beyond.

The School Repeaters

$673,574
Funding type:
Scripted
Production company:
The Niu Wav
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Funding Subtype:
Creation Scripted
Genre:
Youth
Episodes & Duration:
6x10 mins
Primary Platform:
The Coconet TV
Date:
Apr 2025
Synopsis:
Facing expulsion,J ay Jay and his crew must repeat their final year, play rugby and to lead the school to victory while keeping their secret from their parents.

Settling

$3,150,000
Funding type:
Scripted
Production company:
South Pacific Pictures
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Funding Subtype:
Creation Scripted
Genre:
Comedy
Episodes & Duration:
6x23 mins
Primary Platform:
THREE
Date:
Apr 2025
Synopsis:
Two disillusioned 30-somethings decide to stop waiting for "the one" and follow through on their teenage marriage pact.

Be With Zee

$2,500,000
Funding type:
Scripted
Production company:
BE WITH ZEE NZ
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Funding Subtype:
Creation Scripted
Genre:
Children
Episodes & Duration:
52x6 mins
Primary Platform:
TVNZ+
Date:
Apr 2025
Synopsis:
Be With Zee is an animated mindfulness show for children, in which our little pal Zee learns to identify and deal with their feelings in fun and healthy ways.

Good Bones

$1,480,000
Funding type:
Scripted
Production company:
Good Bones LB
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Funding Subtype:
Creation Scripted
Genre:
Comedy
Episodes & Duration:
6x22 mins
Primary Platform:
Sky Open
Date:
Apr 2025
Synopsis:
A chronic procrastinator attempts to renovate a rundown house to save his marriage but uncovers a historic crime scene

A Remarkable Place To Die 2

$600,000
Funding type:
Scripted
Production company:
Remarkable Productions NZ
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Funding Subtype:
Creation Scripted
Genre:
Drama
Episodes & Duration:
6x90 mins
Primary Platform:
TVNZ 1
Date:
Apr 2025
Synopsis:
Anais Mallory’s illicit enquiry into Maja Staunton’s death binds her Police family closer together putting them all in the cross-hairs of Internal Affairs.

Kupu

$45,000
Funding type:
Scripted
Production company:
Arctic Arcade
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Funding Subtype:
Creation Scripted
Genre:
Games
Primary Platform:
HEIHEI Games
Date:
Apr 2025
Synopsis:
Kupu is an educational word game designed to assist with learning te reo Māori and increasing player vocabulary.

Bust Up

$2,265,000
Funding type:
Scripted
Production company:
Bust Up Productions
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Funding Subtype:
Creation Scripted
Genre:
Drama
Episodes & Duration:
6x44 mins
Primary Platform:
Sky Open
Date:
Nov 2024
Synopsis:
Deb and Mihi - ex-partners in life - are forced to partner up again as cops on the beat in the Bay of Islands.

Sgt. Haane

$584,064
Funding type:
Scripted
Production company:
Penny Diver Pictures Limited
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Funding Subtype:
Creation Scripted
Genre:
TMP Co-Fund
Episodes & Duration:
1x80 mins
Primary Platform:
TVNZ+
Date:
Nov 2024
Synopsis:
KIWI is a docudrama that follows WWII Māori Battalion soldier Lance Sergeant Haane Manahi, who,captured a vital enemy stronghold under machine-gun fire.

Suzy & Friends 2025

$227,249
Funding type:
Scripted
Production company:
Treehut
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Funding Subtype:
Creation Scripted
Genre:
Children
Episodes & Duration:
53x60 mins
Primary Platform:
Various Stations
Date:
Nov 2024
Synopsis:
A radio show and podcast that focuses on local content for the tamariki of Aotearoa New Zealand.

Baddies

$1,665,283
Funding type:
Scripted
Production company:
Brown Sugar Apple Grunt Productions
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Funding Subtype:
Creation Scripted
Genre:
TMP Co-Fund
Episodes & Duration:
6x22 mins
Primary Platform:
TVNZ+
Date:
Nov 2024
Synopsis:
When a group of charismatic bank robbers take over a camp for wayward youth, a lonely 12-year-old must make a decision: become a true baddie or change his ways.

The Sanctuary

$1,367,556
Funding type:
Scripted
Production company:
KEVIN'S SANCTUARY
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Funding Subtype:
Creation Scripted
Genre:
Comedy
Episodes & Duration:
8x22 mins
Primary Platform:
THREE
Date:
Nov 2024
Synopsis:
An eccentric American billionaire hiding from the law in New Zealand is forced to convert his lavish private island into a Department of Conservation sanctuary.

Head Girl

$3,372,958
Funding type:
Scripted
Production company:
Head Girl
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Funding Subtype:
Creation Scripted
Genre:
Drama
Episodes & Duration:
6x30 mins
Primary Platform:
ThreeNow
Date:
Nov 2024
Synopsis:
Three estranged BFFs navigate the highs and lows of their early twenties in Wellington.