Autumn 2012


 The Hobbit Production Video 6 AND the first offical trailer Now Playing

Learning and training opportunities

Heading for Wellington!  Actors Studio Elena Stejko 

Peter Feeney has advised places are still available for Term 1 Workshops (Script Interpretation and Camera Clinic)

The Performing Arts School of New Zealand's offers a great variety of courses.

The Actors' Program has kicked off for 2012.

South Seas Film & Television School offers both a short course and a diploma course in On  Screen Acting

Toi Whakaari New Zealand Drama School is a three-year degree course. (Bachelor of Performing Arts (Acting)

Presenters Platform provides TV Presentation and Media Training

John Callen (top) as Oin and Mark Hadlow as Dori in Warner Bros. Pictures'The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey .

The Maori Troilus and Cressida led off the World Shakespeare Festival at the Globe theatre in London where all 38 of Shakespeare’s plays are being performed, each in a different language. This unique event is part of London’s Olympic celebrations. One of the proudest members of the troupe is Juanita Hepi

Our Voices 
are being heard

The Robert Bruce roster of voice actors and voice-over artists is attracting more attention every month. Check them out if you haven’t already

Roger Hall's  A Shortcut to Happiness ran at Circa Theatre 

Elena Stejko was interviewed by the Dominion-Post


BIG STEP: The star of A Shortcut to Happiness Elena Stejko, left, with dance partner Matthew Pike and, in background, cast members Donna Akerston, Peter Hayden, Catherine Downes, Jane Waddell, and Carmel McGlone.

Photo: ANDREW GORRIE/Fairfax NZ





Singer with "Once Were Warriors childhood' makes his acting debut starring opposite Temuera Morrison in Mt Zion

Australian Idol winner Stan Walker plays Turei, a talented young musician with a dream – for his band to win the audition to be the support act for Bob Marley’s 1979 concert in Auckland.

Set amongst a Maori family of contract potato pickers in Pukekohe, Mt Zion is a family- oriented story in which Turei’s desperate ambition clashes with traditional whanau values, leading to an emotional showdown and powerful change.

Temuera Morrison plays Turei’s father, the hard-working head contractor who has some lost ambitions of his own. The film is currentlly in production. The New Zealand Herald ran an article when shooting started in February


Photo: Doug Herrin