The annual SPADA Screen Industry Awards was held on Wednesday 20 November, during the 27th annual SPADA Conference in Auckland. The Industry Awards are a chance to celebrate some of the wonderful people in our screen sector, and this year’s awards ceremony was a highlight of the conference. The 2019 SPADA New Filmmaker of the Year …
If you haven’t heard of Looking Up, then you’re not alone. This family drama about an astronaut reflecting on his father’s teachings premiered in Bejing on the 14th of July and on opening weekend made $9.22 million in China—practically tripling The Lion King‘s total. Park Road’s Senior Re-Recording Mixer Mike Hedges flew to China …
We are delighted to announce that Dean Watkins, previously Head of Production, is to take the reins as General Manager, effective immediately. Dean joined the team at Park Road in early 2011, leaving the world of film and television post production in Soho London, to make his home in Wellington. Dean has been an integral […]
What immediately stands out in Peter Jackson’s documentary They Shall Not Grow Old is the faces of its subjects. A painstaking restoration of century-old video footage from the First World War, the film is a complex project with a simple goal: to try to convey what it was like to live and fight on the Western Front …
The World War I documentary produced by acclaimed filmmaker Sir Peter Jackson is up for a BAFTA next month for his new film which uses original footage from the Imperial War Museums’ extensive archive, much of it previously unseen, alongside BBC and IWM interviews with servicemen who fought in the conflict. Original film footage has …
Black and white silent film footage from World War I has been transformed by Oscar-winning director Sir Peter Jackson into a 3D colour documentary film to mark the centenary of the end of the conflict. The legendary filmmaker painstakingly restored and coloured hours of archival footage and paired it with historical veterans’ interviews and a …
It was a milestone moment for Weta Digital winning its first Emmy for outstanding special visual effects for its work on a zombie polar bear at the Creative Arts Emmys this month. Weta Digital’s visual effects supervisor Wayne Stables told Mike Hosking it’s an important step to help get them into the television market. “The best …
The latest Chinese feature film ‘Wolf Warrior II’ is currently hitting headlines around the world as it breaks China’s box office record for the highest grossing film in its history. It’s a great feeling for the team at Park Road as we had the pleasure of working with writer/director Wu Jing on the film’s sound …
Park Road will play host to a range of documentary-making talent on the 13th of May during this years Screen Edge Forum, part of Doc Edge; New Zealand’s International Documentary Film Festival. For ten years, Screen Edge has been an essential part of the Doc Edge Festival, to promote idea sharing and debate in a lively …
Park Road experienced firsthand the benefits of the reduced threshold applied to the 20% PDV Government incentive grant in late 2015. With the threshold lowered from $NZD1M down to $NZD500,000 an international feature film client who had sought out Park Road was encouraged to allocate more work to the facility thanks to the change. The …