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• • Hollywood in Upper Hutt?

    • 19 Aug 2011
    • Wellington Scoop
    • Many questions are raised by today’s curious report that there are dreams of creating a Hollywood-style film production studio in Upper Hutt.
    • Accepted from Wellington Scoop features 122 months ago
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    Lower Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • Sad day for Avalon

    • 5 Apr 2011
    • Architectural Centre Inc
    • Sad news today as it is announced that TVNZ is to sell Avalon studios. The famous Avalon studios opened in 1975 at 41 Percy Cameron Street, and was NZ’s first custom-built television centre.
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• • Wellywood: good idea, dreadful idea

    • 9 Mar 2010
    • Wellington Scoop
    • It’s a great idea to put a Hollywood-style sign on the Miramar peninsula. But it’s a dreadful idea for the sign to use the cliched “Wellywood” word, which does nothing except show that we are hankering after older and bigger film industries rather than having confidence in our own identity and our own name.
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    Miramar, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • The new issue dividing our capital

    • 9 Mar 2010
    • The Wellingtonista
    •  First it was "Bret or Jermaine?" then "Smash Malice or Brutal Paegent?" but now it's time for the really big decision - which Facebook group to join - "Hey, let's NOT have a 'Wellywood' sign in Wellington"or "A WELLYWOOD sign on the Miramar Cutting Hill is a STUPID idea"?
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    Miramar, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • Wellywood

    • 26 Nov 2009
    • Eye of the Fish
    • What Wellington needs now, in these troubled times, is a giant Wellywood sign.
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• • Handle the Jandal 2009

    • 1 Nov 2009
    • The Sidestrip
    • The category winners for the 2009 Handle the Jandal DIY Music Video Awards are: Producer’s name, Band Song Best Use of Exploitative Tactics to Promote A Band: Judah Finnigan and Ben Forman: Highlife,Berserk Best Editing: Joe Fish: James Duncan, A Obvious Best Cinematography: Kimberley Brown: Electric Wire Hustle, Perception Best Concept: Lisa Dunn: Parallel Dance Ensemble, Weight Watchers Best Animation: Preston McNeill: Isaac Aesili, With You In My Bed Rising Star 2009: Greg Pawsey: Cougar Cougar Cougar, Satans Blues And the Golden Jandal for the peoples’ favourites: First: Lisa Dunn for Parallel Dance Ensemble’s Weight Watchers. Second: Mike Gray for El Schlong’s The Baddies Are Coming Third: Judah Finnigan and Ben Forman for Highlife’s Berserk Posted in Arts and Music, News and Events, Peoples and Society Tagged: cultures, music, new zealand, wellington
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• • Team Puppy Guts fingers their way to the top of 48Hours film comp

    • 3 Jul 2008
    • The Wellingtonista
    • Congratulations to team Puppy Guts who have only just gone and won the grand final of the 2008 48Hours film competition with their dance short F*DANCE, making them the first Wellington team to do so.
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• • Furious Filmmaking

    • 1 May 2008
    • The Wellingtonista
    • Registration for this year's 'V' 48 Hours Furious Filmmaking competition closes in only 8 days and organisers are once again looking (somewhat apprehensively) at a record-breaking number of entries. 2007 saw more than 120 teams take part in the Wellington region alone, and this year extra capacity has been made available so no one will get turned away.
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• • Belonging somewhere

    • 26 Feb 2008
    • The Wellingtonista
    • Opening tomorrow night at the Film Archive - Wellington multi-media artist Sarah Jane Parton presents her wacky take on the future...
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• • Big Moments on screen tonight

    • 20 Feb 2008
    • The Wellingtonista
    • Come check out: Life in NZ from the 1950s to the 1980s! The Friends of the Film Archive are launching their 2008 season with a 70-minute romp through pivotal moments in New Zealand's recent history.
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    • museumsandgalleries
  
  

• • Ice Ice Baby

    • 15 Feb 2008
    • The Wellingtonista
    • Tonight come along to the Film Archive (corner of Taranaki and Ghuznee Sts) to the opening of Á jaðrinum (transl. on the edge), a collection of 15 recent video works from Iceland, curated by Leonhard Emmerling, from 5:30pm.
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• • Beautiful Mash

    • 14 Apr 2007
    • The Wellingtonista
    • We all know that in Wellington, everyone and their dogs are already busy making films of some description already, but for any aspiring film-makers not currently up to their eyeballs in digital video, here's your chance. LOOP Recordings want you to make a video for Adi Dick's song "Beautiful View".
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