NHNZ subsidiary NHNZ Moving Images is up against one of the world's largest media organisations in the 2013 Focal International Awards.
The Dunedin documentary production company has been nominated for the Footage Library of the Year Award, alongside United States giant Getty Images.
''We're pretty delighted. It's a fabulous award. It recognises footage licensing and use of footage in documentaries,'' NHNZ Moving Images archive director Caroline Cook said yesterday.
The 18 awards acknowledge excellence in the manage- ment and use of library footage. NHNZ Moving Images sells footage and outtakes from NHNZ documentaries and represents National Geographic Channels Worldwide library of footage. It is the largest online repository of New Zealand documentary archive footage in the country.
Focal (the Federation of Commercial Audiovisual Libraries International) was founded in 1985 to promote the use of footage, images, stills and audio in all forms of media production.
The other finalists in the best library category are Getty Images, of the United States, and English organisation Videoplugger.
The 10th annual Focal International Awards will be presented at a black-tie ceremony at the London Lancaster Hotel on May 2.
