Emerging Women Filmmakers Incubator
The Incubator is a talent-focused development programme structured over five one-day workshops across a year. While directors come to the Incubator with a project, our main aim is to provide specific knowledge, skills, connections and inspiration to enable each participant to advance themselves and their careers.
> Applications for 2021 closed Monday 12 April, 9AM.
“It was specifically curated to our needs and exceeded my expectations on every level. It was jam-packed with sessions, info and meetings with industry practitioners who could give us behind the scenes knowledge and equip us with real-time insight into the industry. It was relevant and challenging, and has been immensely beneficial to me in giving me the confidence to pitch my projects at MIFF [Melbourne International Film Festival] and most recently Clermont-Ferrand.”
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“Being a part of the DEGNZ’s Incubator has been a highly motivating and encouraging experience. It is rare to get a chance to talk frankly with such experienced practitioners, but this programme created a space in which such useful dialogue could take place. The Incubator also provided regular meetings with other filmmakers at the same stage in their career.”
2020 Alumni

Michelle Ang
Directors & Editors Guild of NZ
Charlotte Evans
Directors & Editors Guild of NZ
Pennie Hunt
Directors & Editors Guild of NZ
Stella Reid
Directors & Editors Guild of NZ
Rachel Ross
Directors & Editors Guild of NZ
Jessica Grace Smith
Directors & Editors Guild of NZ
Kathleen Winter
Directors & Editors Guild of NZ2019 Alumni

Anna Duckworth
Directors & Editors Guild of NZ
Marina Alofagia McCartney
Directors & Editors Guild of NZ
Jessica Sanderson
Directors & Editors Guild of NZ
Claire van Beek
Directors & Editors Guild of NZ
Ursula Williams
Directors & Editors Guild of NZ2018 Alumni

Chantelle Burgoyne
Directors & Editors Guild of NZ
Linda Darby-Coring
Directors & Editors Guild of NZ
Hiona Henare
Directors & Editors Guild of NZ
Abi King-Jones
Directors & Editors Guild of NZ
Agnes Peel-McGregor
Directors & Editors Guild of NZ
Lauren Porteous
Directors & Editors Guild of NZ
Michelle Savill
Directors & Editors Guild of NZ
Asuka Sylvie
Directors & Editors Guild of NZ2017 Alumni

Catherine Bisley
Directors & Editors Guild of NZ
Nathalie Boltt
Directors & Editors Guild of NZ
Abigail Greenwood
Directors & Editors Guild of NZ
Kirsty Hamilton
Directors & Editors Guild of NZ
Cathy MacDonald
Directors & Editors Guild of NZ
Renae Maihi
Directors & Editors Guild of NZ
Zoe McIntosh
Directors & Editors Guild of NZ
Nikki Si’ulepa
Directors & Editors Guild of NZ
Yamin Tun
Directors & Editors Guild of NZ