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.
“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
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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
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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
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