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1137 decisions found.

Hamu

$48,500
Funding type:
Scripted
Production company:
Arctic Arcade
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Funding Subtype:
Creation Scripted
Genre:
Children
Primary Platform:
Arctic Arcade
Date:
Jul 2025
Synopsis:
Hamu (hunt) for the hidden pattern, or hide your own. A tukutuku-based game of hide and seek!

Shortland Street 35/2026

$2,500,000
Funding type:
Scripted
Production company:
South Pacific Pictures Serials
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Funding Subtype:
Creation Scripted
Genre:
Drama
Episodes & Duration:
120x23 mins
Primary Platform:
TVNZ 2
Date:
Jul 2025
Synopsis:
Shortland Street is Aotearoa New Zealand's longest running soap opera and the nation's most recognisable television drama brand.

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
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.

Happiness 2

$2,165,000
Funding type:
Scripted
Production company:
Greenstone Pictures Happiness 2
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Funding Subtype:
Creation Scripted
Genre:
Comedy
Episodes & Duration:
6x23 mins
Primary Platform:
THREE
Date:
Jul 2025
Synopsis:
When former best friends Jacqui and Charlie become theatrical archenemies, their feud ignites a glittering musical showdown at Pizazz Theatre.

Rupture 26 (Development)

$420,000
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.

You And Me (Together)

$1,078,297
Funding type:
Scripted
Production company:
Treehut
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Funding Subtype:
Creation Scripted
Genre:
Children
Episodes & Duration:
25x30 mins
Primary Platform:
YouTube
Date:
Jul 2025
Synopsis:
The iconic preschool series You and Me is still loved by generations of Kiwis. You and Me (Together) revisits the format, enrichening it for today's tamariki.

All Of Me

$2,730,000
Funding type:
Scripted
Production company:
Luminous Beast
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Funding Subtype:
Creation Scripted
Genre:
Comedy
Episodes & Duration:
8x22 mins
Primary Platform:
Sky Open
Date:
Jul 2025
Synopsis:
When a pathological people-pleaser secretly clones herself a replacement she’s suddenly forced to deal with all of herself.

Secrets At Red Rocks 2

$2,250,000
Funding type:
Scripted
Production company:
Libertine Pictures 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Nz Spy

$1,998,000
Funding type:
Scripted
Production company:
Kevin & Content
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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 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.

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:
Facebook
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.

How Was Your Day?

$124,700
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.

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.

Kiwi

$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.