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Thanks for sharing our 'why' for making kids drama Little Apocalypse Re: News

NZ’s first q***r kids show: Why these characters need to be centre stage Q***r people often end up being side characters in TV shows and movies, but a new local kids’ series is making sure q***r characters take centre stage as complex, relatable heroes.

New Kiwi kids' series a first for rainbow community Supernatural comedy Little Apocalypse is New Zealand’s first scripted children’s series by, for and about rainbow young people, with a vibrant cast of q***r characters and allies.

Watch an army of mischievous little monsters and a cheeky poltergeist on the new tamariki series Little Apocalypse. Full season out now on TVNZ+
https://www.tvnz.co.nz/shows/little-apocalypse

Great write up in The Post NZ about Little Apocalypse this morning. The series is live on TVNZ+ for your viewing pleasure.

https://www.thepost.co.nz/a/culture/350021804/new-kiwi-kids-tv-drama-comedy-seen-through-rainbow-lens

"Snippets of Little Apocalypse have also started to make waves with a clip of Leith on Tiktok garnering more than 70,000 views.
“And 14,000 likes from both local young people, and people in Australia and the US, who were really excited to see a q***r kids drama.
“Some of the comments we had on that were, ‘as a young q***r New Zealander, this is revolutionary, I thank you’. That for me is meaningful in itself,” Coppell said."

Congrats to filmmaker Paloma Schneideman and team Gate Crash as our short film has been selected as one of NZ's Best for 2023. The film is screening in competition as part of New Zealand International Film Festival this year. Huge fun producing this short with Vicky Pope and POP Film as part of the Toi Whakaari: NZ Drama School film programme last year with a vibrant and energetic cast of 3rd year graduating students who absolutely smashed it!!! Super stoked to be part of this line up of shorts with such powerful creative teams - come along and support us, will be a goody!
https://www.nziff.co.nz/2023/nziff-2023/new-zealands-best-2023/

So proud of Team Pincher who've made an epic pilot through the Pan-Asian Screen Collective Episode One Pilot Programme. Big cheers to the superstar creators, my fellow producer Sara Chen, Writer Tim Chen and Director Pon Torthienchai. Big ups to our cast led by the uber talented and hilarious X**a Tang and our fab crew. Full series ready for development and on the hunt for platform partners! Check out the trailer for our pilot at the link below.

Thanks for the support NZ On Air and NZ Film Commission.

Pincher - PASC Recreational porch pirate, Mei, Just Stole an urn. When its maverick ghost threatens vengeance, Mei is forced to investigate her past victims to right her wrong.

Super excited to share our coproduction with Electric Shoelace Productions coming to RNZ Tahi on October 4th. Funded by NZ On Air.

New show coming soon 🔥

Our documentary collaboration with filmmaker Kathleen Winter and poet Freya Daly-Sadgrove has a new home on the Going West site! Go check it out!!

Ultimately Lacks Polish — Going West Writers Festival Documentary Film: Proudly low-brow poet Freya Daly Sadgrove combines poetry with glam and p***y theatrics, but faces harsh criticism in her attempt to make poetry accessible. Directed by Kathleen Winter.

Capturing the Zeitgeist Poetry's magical possibilities of collaboration and innovation are showcased with Nathan Joe's Homecoming Poems and Freya Daly Sadgrove's Ultimately Lacks Polish, according to Chris Tse.

Excited to be producing ConspiraSeries! Over the moon for director/producer Jaimee Poipoi whose fantastic series idea was picked up by RNZ & Coconet and has been greenlit by NZ On Air. THANKS TEAM. Working with Electric Shoelace Productions as co-producer, shout out to our writer Rosie Howells, host with the most Sieni (aka Bubbah) & EP Matasila Freshwater!

Exploring the many faces of Aotearoa – new informative Factual content gets green light The many different faces of Aotearoa are represented in a host of new Factual content to be commissioned from the latest NZ On Air funding round.

Very excited to reunite with talented director/writers Elsie Bollinger & Sally Bollinger to bring some witchy, ghostly apocalyptic mayhem to tamariki next year with Little Apocalypse. And its a series created by me, Thomas haha (eek)!!! Looking forward to collaborating with some of Welly's fine talent on this kaupapa. Thanks team NZ On Air & HEIHEI ❤

NZ On Air invests over $13 million in new content to engage tamariki Aotearoa’s youngest viewers are in for a treat with $13.3m worth of new content to stimulate and entertain across a range of digital platforms, games and tv

Script to Screen is delighted to announce the 12 participants selected for Strength in Numbers – Growth 2022. They will participate in a series of workshops run by Script to Screen and led by David Court of Compton School.

Congratulations to the following participants and their businesses:

🖊️AJ FILMS Ltd - Amanda Jenkins
🖊️Aroha Productions Ltd -Victoria Dabbs
🖊️FLUROBLACK - Fraser Brown, Leela Menon
🖊️Hex Work Productions -Amber Easby
🖊️Luminous Beast - Dan Musgrove, Shoshana McCallum
🖊️MHM Productions Ltd - Morgan Stewart
🖊️Mooncake Ltd - Becky Kuek
🖊️The Granary - Amber Marie Naveria
🖊️Tomorrow, Rain - Thomas Coppell, Matasila Freshwater
🖊️Useful Media Ltd - Ruth Korver

📣Read the full announcement on our website - https://script-to-screen.co.nz/congratulations-to-the-participants-selected-for-strength-in-numbers-2022/

Strength in Numbers is a Script to Screen initiative run in partnership with Compton School and is possible thanks to funding from the NZ Film Commission, the Auckland Council Regional Arts and Culture Grant and additional help from Screen Auckland and Screen Canterbury NZ .

Check out Ultimately Lacks Polish, a passion project we produced with wonderfully smart and talented director Kathleen Winter over the last year. The film is a portrait piece about Wellington poet Freya Daly Sadgrove, showcasing her bad ass poetry she performs accompanied by drummer Thomas Friggens. In the film Freya reflects on her work that was published in her book Head Girl and looks ahead to the next phase of her artistry. Give it a watch. Big shout out to our wonderful crew who smashed it on this documentary. Thank you to Going West Books and Writers Festival for supporting our team to make this film, and special acknowledgement to the amazing folk at Avalon Studios Ltd who generously let us take over Studio 11 for two days to shoot our poetry music video, and Undergound Sound for supporting our sound design, mix and recording of our soundtrack!
Vidzing are currently hosting the film and it's pay by choice (so you can watch for free or donate if you can to the wonderful mahi Going West does showcasing and supporting New Zealand's writing talent)

Ultimately Lacks Polish | Going West | Vidzing View for free, or donate. Freya Daly Sadgrove is an emerging New Zealand poet, riding the success of her collection Head Girl — but acutely aware that something has to come next. With her multi-poet show Show Ponies, she’s determined to jam together poetry, punk, s*x, s...

Gosh we've been a little quiet haven't we, should probably post what we've been up to this year 🤣