NZ On Screen is an online showcase of archival New Zealand

New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

 television and film. The website is fully funded by NZ On Air and provides free worldwide access to NZ-produced television, film and music videos. Content is streamed and the webpages provide authoritative background information.

The site was launched in October 2008 and is updated constantly. It provides titles in full or as excerpts, with background notes, photographs and profiles of key cast and crew. All material is rights-cleared and there is some content now on the site that had not been seen since its mid-twentieth century screening. Despite being an official service funded by NZ On Air (the state media funding agency), NZ On Screen has a .com domain rather than a .govt.nz domain as other New Zealand state services do.

The ScreenTalk section is a videoblog with interviews with people from the NZ television and film industry - including Florian Habicht

Florian Habicht

Florian Habicht is a New Zealand film director. Florian was born in 1975 in Berlin, Germany. He moved to New Zealand, with his family to the Bay of Islands, at the age of eight. He went to high school in Kerikeri before attending the University of Auckland's Elam Art school, and graduating in...

, Rena Owen

Rena Owen

Rena Owen is a New Zealand actress in film, theatre and television. She is of Maori, Torres Strait Islander and Pakeha descent. Owen is most well known in the lead role of Beth in the cult classic movie Once Were Warriors directed by Lee Tamahori...

, Margaret Mahy

Margaret Mahy

Margaret Mahy ONZ is a well-known New Zealand author of children's and young adult books. While the plots of many of her books have strong supernatural elements, her writing concentrates on the themes of human relationships and growing up.Her books The Haunting and The Changeover: A Supernatural...

, Vincent Ward

Vincent Ward

Vincent Ward, ONZM is a film director and screenwriter.-Biography:Vincent Ward was awarded an Order of New Zealand Merit in 2007 for his contribution to film making. He was born in Greytown, New Zealand. He was educated at St Patrick's College, Silverstream and trained as an artist at the...

 and Sam Neill

Sam Neill

Nigel John Dermot "Sam" Neill, DCNZM, OBE is a New Zealand actor. He is well known for his starring role as paleontologist Dr Alan Grant in Jurassic Park and Jurassic Park III....

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The site won a Qantas Media Award

Qantas Media Award

The New Zealand Newspaper Publishers’ Association awards are annual New Zealand media awards recognising excellence in the news print media. The first awards were held in 1974 giving out awards for news photography and have expanded to include many disciplines of journalism. The awards are...

for Best Entertainment site in May 2009, and was finalist for Best Website Design.

External links

• NZ On Screen official site
• ScreenTalk interviews
• NZ On Air
• Article on Lively Blog from the MCH website
• Interview with NZ Onscreen director Brenda Leeuwenberg on the site's first anniversary. The Big Idea website, October 2009