Antony Starr remembers the thrill of sharing the set with a film icon.

NZ On Screen brings us the story behind Whale Rider.

NZ On Screen brings us the stories behind some of our most notable local films.

NZ On Screen brings us the stories behind some of our most notable local films.

Released in 1977, Sleeping Dogs is based on the CK Stead novel Smith's Dream.

TVNZ launches new kids' streaming service HEIHEI at star-studded party.

Clare Curran says her plans for RNZ TV channel wont hurt TVNZ in the short term.

Jane Wrightson is one of the people receiving an award from Massey University tomorrow.

Kiwi Roseanne Liang is on a list of 20 female directors likely to direct a Hollywood film.

West Auckland principals say TV3's Westside is driving students out of local schools.

Attitude Pictures is kicking the stigma around disability, Dan Buckingham explains.

COMMENT: The implications for NZ on Air are stark. They simply cannot keep funding programming if the audience is no longer watching it.

NZOA's changing up its funding, creating one fund to rule them all and applying it to a whole bunch of new platforms.

The East Coast Lab has been launched to research New Zealand's least understood subduction zone, the Hikurangi Trough.

Animated webseries Aroha Bridge started life as a weekly comic strip, created by Jessica Hansell, better known as local rapper Coco Solid.

Last week nz On Air announced some significant changes to its music funding schemes, which for the past five years have been known as Making Tracks.

TV boss will have to decide if it is worth making another attempt to get taxpayer funding for NZ version of Home and Away.

The man who brought us Fred Dagg is returning to take a fresh look at Godzone.

Gina can't see, is bedbound and has to avoid light and sound as they are painful to her eyes and ears. Gina is pro-euthanasia.

NZ On Air will decide on Wednesday whether to fund a new 5:30pm soap opera which TV3 hopes will help boost ratings for 3News, writes John Drinnan.

Foreign firms are believed to get more than half the grants made by NZ On Air, writes John Drinnan.

New Zealand On Air is changing its funding system for regional television, but it is too late for the three tiny stations that have closed so far this year.

There’s a lot of anger about TV current affairs at the moment – sparked by the threats to Campbell Live. But there’s also humour, writes Bryce Edwards.

The hidden dangers of the online world is a growing concern among parents as multiple screens become a regular feature of Kiwi kids' lives.

Lawyers representing a company which funded the animated comedy series Bro'Town and the IRD have reached a confidential out-of-court settlement.

A film project dramatising the "Black Widow" murder case of Helen Milner, who poisoned her husband, has received taxpayer funding.

A bogan who made a career out of his Holden car-loving, heavy metal, black T-shirt-wearing lifestyle is to bring "boganology" to the small screen.

Love him or hate him, Muldoon was definitely a memorable NZ politician - and this Monday is the 30th anniversary of the '84 snap election.

In the quarter of a century since it began, NZOA has funded a wide range of television programmes and music videos - we take a look at some of the best.