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Our 2024 festival is now closed. See our Selections, our Award Nominees, and our Award Winners.

CONVOS

We’re running some Convo sessions with nominees for some of Best in Show award categories across podcast, short film and webseries strands.

We’ll add participants to the tabs as they confirm

These Creator Convo sessions run live on our YouTube channel (@NZWebFest), and remain available there to enjoy later. We’ll post them to our facebook channel (@NZWebFest) after they run

SATURDAY 2 NOVEMBER

Kyle Decker
Quest Friends!

Taylor Garcia van Biljon
Backwater Bastards

Lian Xia Rose
Bad Heroes

Alli Nova
RPG for You & Me

Kira Nova
RPG for You & Me

Sean Flierl
Role to Cast

Aaron Hammonds
The All Night Society

Clara Allison
MEKONG

Connie Chang
The Chaos Protocol: Arc One

Joaquín Daray
Re Rol: The Sprout of Fire

Valentina Álvarez Such
Re Rol: The Sprout of Fire

Sarah Barker
Virtual Reality: A Path to Mental Wellness

Blake Pfeil
The TMI Project Story Hour

Ellie Harwood
Behind ‘ADHD+Me’

Karthic
Tune into Nature

Katie Mahalic
Shadow Clock

Sebastian Kerebs
Pōneke Classical Sessions

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SUNDAY 3 NOVEMBER

Pearl Tan
Diversity Work

Rah Rah
A Place As Beautiful As This

Alexander Duncan
Hovering

Ella Gale
Candy Claus, Private Eye

Jonathan Winstead
The Invicta Collective

Amber Devereux
Camlann

Diana Woody
Company Christmas

Jane Watson
Spiked Eggs

Matthew Woerner
Operator

Jonah Simmonds
Felix: Space Pirate

Lance Axt
London After Midnight

Faith Cruz
Crescendo

Holly Groves
Amalgamate

Oberon Romond
Nokia Low

Taniora Ormsby
The Great South

Weitong Li
Borders of the Heart

James Fink-Jensen
The Balloon

Angela Cudd
Ahi & the Stars

Hayden Smithie
The Wētā

Daniel Betty
Opia

Julie Zhu
Monster State


SATURDAY 9 NOVEMBER

Muriel Aboulrouss
Zyara to Yemen

Joey Skaggs
Stop BIOPEEP!

Judy Drosd
Stop BIOPEEP!

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Cam Faull
Swiping Right

Craig Selbrede
Hurt

Leon Cheo
People Like Us

Marushka Almeida
Get Up, Aisha

Sally McLean
Dark Arcadia

Tony Radevski
Fanny Scat Investigates

Ravi Khajuria
I Will Bury You

Elena Moscatt
Rosemary Street

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Belle Gwilliam
Fiordland Kiwi Diaries

Liam van Eeden
Queer Academy

Magnolia Lowe
Turning the Tide

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Jack Nicol
Well Well Wellness

Jake Tabata
The Creature

Ataraiti Waretini
Ahikāroa, Only in Aotearoa,
Te Pāmu Kūmara

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The awards ceremony runs online. Watch it live on our facebook page (@NZWebFest). We’ll also live post our winners to instagram (@nzwebfest) during the ceremony, and publish a winners list on our website after the end of each ceremony.

See our finalists page for nominees. The running order for the ceremony is as follows:

BEST HOST, ACTUAL PLAY

BEST HOST, ACTUAL PLAY VIDEO

BEST CAST, ACTUAL PLAY

BEST CAST, ACTUAL PLAY VIDEO

BEST CAST, FICTION PODCAST

BEST PERFORMANCE, INTERNATIONAL SHORT FICTION FILM

BEST CONCEPT, NF PODCAST

BEST CONCEPT, FICTION PODCAST

BEST WRITING, FICTION PODCAST

BEST DIRECTING, SHORT DOCUMENTARY FILM ***

BEST SOUND DESIGN, FICTION PODCAST

BEST DIRECTING, INTERNATIONAL SHORT FICTION FILM

BEST MUSIC VIDEO ***

BEST PODCAST, ACTUAL PLAY

BEST PODCAST, ACTUAL PLAY VIDEO

BEST PODCAST, STANDALONE FICTION PODCAST

BEST PODCAST, NF PODCAST

BEST FILM, SHORT DOCUMENTARY FILM ***

BEST STUDENT FILM, INTERNATIONAL SHORT FICTION FILM

BEST PODCAST, SERIES FICTION PODCAST

BEST FILM, INTERNATIONAL SHORT FICTION FILM

*** As this open category contains a majority of NZ nominees, the winner will be announced at the NZ Short Film Awards ceremony.

The time of the ceremony is NZDT, which is UTC+13 hours. The ceremony is at
12.30PM Sat 9 Nov US West Coast,
3.30PM Sat 9 Nov US East Coast,
8.30PM Sat 9 Nov UK.

The awards ceremony runs online. Watch it live on our facebook page (@NZWebFest). We’ll also live post our winners to instagram (@nzwebfest) during the ceremony, and publish a winners list on our website after the end of each ceremony.

See our finalists page for nominees. The running order for the ceremony is as follows:

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY, INTERNATIONAL SERIES FACTUAL
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY, INTERNATIONAL SERIES NARRATIVE
BEST EDITING, INTERNATIONAL SERIES FACTUAL
BEST EDITING, INTERNATIONAL SERIES NARRATIVE
BEST SCORE, INTERNATIONAL SERIES NARRATIVE
BEST ENSEMBLE, INTERNATIONAL SERIES NARRATIVE
BEST ACTING, INTERNATIONAL SERIES NARRATIVE
BEST WRITING, INTERNATIONAL SERIES NARRATIVE (not English language)
BEST WRITING, INTERNATIONAL SERIES NARRATIVE (English Language)
BEST DIRECTING, INTERNATIONAL SERIES FACTUAL
BEST DIRECTING, INTERNATIONAL SERIES NARRATIVE
BEST ANIMATED / PUPPETRY SERIES (open category)
BEST PILOT, INTERNATIONAL SERIES
BEST SHOW, INTERNATIONAL SERIES FACTUAL
BEST INTERNATIONAL NARRATIVE SERIES (not English Language)
BEST INTERNATIONAL NARRATIVE SERIES (English Language)

The time of the ceremony is NZDT, which is UTC+13 hours. The ceremony is at
2PM Sat 9 Nov US West Coast,
5PM Sat 9 Nov US East Coast,
10PM Sat 9 Nov UK.

The awards ceremony runs in-person. Attendance is by invitation. We’ll also live post our winners to instagram (@nzwebfest) during the ceremony, and publish a winners list on our website after the end of each ceremony.

See our finalists page for nominees. The running order for the ceremony is as follows:

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY, NZ SHORT FICTION
BEST EDITING, NZ SHORT FICTION
BEST PERFORMANCE, NZ SHORT FICTION
BEST WRITING, NZ SHORT FICTION
BEST DIRECTING, SHORT DOCUMENTARY ***
BEST DIRECTING, NZ SHORT FICTION
BEST MUSIC VIDEO ***
BEST STUDENT FILM, NZ SHORT FICTION
BEST FILM, SHORT DOCUMENTARY ***
BEST FILM, NZ SHORT FICTION

*** This is an open category, and contains NZ and international nominees


The awards ceremony runs in-person. Attendance is by invitation. We’ll also live post our winners to instagram (@nzwebfest) during the ceremony, and publish a winners list on our website after the end of each ceremony.

See our finalists page for nominees. The running order for the ceremony is as follows:

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY, NZ SERIES FACTUAL

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY, NZ SERIES NARRATIVE

BEST EDITING, NZ SERIES FACTUAL

BEST EDITING, NZ SERIES NARRATIVE

BEST ENSEMBLE, NZ SERIES NARRATIVE

BEST ACTING, NZ SERIES NARRATIVE

BEST WRITING, NZ SERIES NARRATIVE

BEST DIRECTING, NZ SERIES FACTUAL

BEST DIRECTING, NZ SERIES NARRATIVE

BEST PILOT, NZ SERIES

BEST NZ FACTUAL SERIES

BEST NZ NARRATIVE SERIES