NHNZ managing director Kyle Murdoch has slammed New Zealand television networks as ''archaic'' after they declined to take content from its new children's TV channel.
Dunedin-based NHNZ, one of New Zealand's seminal film and documentary makers, has been sold by its multi-national owner to a leading Australian television executive.
When NHNZ shot its first episode of I Survived, no-one at the Dunedin-based production house dreamt it would be one of the more popular shows in the United States.
Dunedin-based film-maker NHNZ booked a roughly three-fold profit increase to $3.1 million in its full year to June 2011, underpinned by programme sales and licensing revenue up almost $6 million.
Flaming hands, frozen sheep brains and exploding balloons feature in the latest advanced still and moving footage from Dunedin, likely to be seen around the world.
NHNZ is working with a Korean company to develop cost-effective software able to turn high-definition television into 3-D programmes.
A partnership between two Dunedin-based heavyweights could have "huge" commercial potential, its backers say.
A Dunedin computer-game company has collaborated with National Geographic to produce an app for smart phone and tablet computer devices. It was released last month.
For the past decade the University of Otago has collaborated with NHNZ in a documentary film-making venture that, at its core, strives to produce good storytellers. Shane Gilchrist reports.
Dunedin-based company NHNZ is putting the natural history back into New Zealand television with a new series on the country's national parks.
NHNZ has been used by one of the world's largest video game companies.
Dunedin television production company NHNZ is not anticipating any fallout in the wake of the News Corporation scandal unfolding in the United Kingdom.
Gaining a business award for its efforts in China is "fantastic recognition" for Dunedin production company NHNZ, chief executive Michael Stedman says.
In a coup for NHNZ, the Dunedin-based television company has been chosen by documentary heavyweight National Geographic to archive and sell more than two decades of footage.
From taking a first step into the world of online gaming, NHNZ's Flutter game this week went viral on Facebook. Business editor Dene Mackenzie investigates.
The key to making an online game successful is attracting people who ask their friends and then start sharing and competing with each other, Runaway Play director Tim Nixon says.
A little bit of Dunedin will be seen in a major documentary about the 9/11 terrorist attacks - not that the United States audience will know it.
More television commercials being shot in the Southern Lakes, the prolific Dunedin-based Natural History New Zealand television documentary company and an overall maturing of the film industry are behind the growth in screen production spending and number of movie businesses in the South.
Dunedin-based Natural History New Zealand (NHNZ) managing director Michael Stedman is among seven entrepreneurs and innovators honoured in this year's World Class New Zealand Awards.
The growing availability of 3D television represents a significant step forward in quality viewing and choice of viewing, NHNZ managing director Michael Stedman says. NHNZ is in the midst of...