Seed
2023 ROUND 2
Jayden Daniels - Ngā Whetū
Daniel Max - Tāne
Jamie Lawrence - Daz
Aroha Silenzio - Mana Tapu
Kishan Raman - Rise Up
Ryan Ammar - The Bay Hill
2023 ROUND 1
Pulkit Arora - Soft
Tracey Slaughter & Liam Hinton - The Longest Drink in Town
Celestina Sumby - Blessed are the Sinners
Nathan Morris - Redemption Songs
Joseph Taylor - The Rider
Jane Wilson - The Mostly True Story of Amy Bock
2022 ROUND 2
Navneeth Nair - Bismillah Baron vs. The People
Michele Powles and Anna Rose Duckworth - Put a Baby in Me
Alex MacDonald - Teenage Dirtbag
Daisy Lawless - Morag
Ying Ly - What Did You Say to Me?!
Matt Butler - Junior Senior
2022 ROUND 1
Ankita Singh - Bindu Patel and the Lost Spirit
Jordan Windsor, Angella Dravid & Tim Fletcher - Yaya Says Nah
Nacoya Anderson - Moonripe
Erica Kent - I am Dali
Ghazaleh Golbakhsh & Mia Maramara - The Ordeal
Will Agnew - The Casket & The Cross
2021 ROUND 2
Gwendolyn Lin - Blood, Sweat & Shuttlecocks
Stella Reid - The Band of the True Prophet
Nahyeon Lee - Vile Abjection
David Hay - Shadowboxer
Daryl Wong - Lost in the Fire
Rajneel Singh & Annamarie Connors - Leave Me Cold
2021 ROUND 1
Sinead Lau - Not this Time
Teresa Bass - Exit Strategy
Jackson Herman - The Great Kiwi Caper
Nastassia Wolfgramm - Chronicles of Polynesia - Tangi e Lupe (The Dove's Cry)
2020 ROUND 2
Alex MacDonald - Gold Diggers
Raul Sharma - 2BRO2B: To Be or Not to Be
Will Agnew - The Demon
Jessica Smith & Benedict Wall - Minors
2020 ROUND 1
Jodie Hillock - Blood & Gold
Brian Challis - New Zealand Ninja
Rebecca Tansley - Portrait of a Modern Woman
Allan George - Hiakai
2019 ROUND 2
Hannah Greenslade-Yeats - Charlie's Just fine
Tanya Moir - Trufflepig
Sarita So - Zoo Life
Jordan Windsor - Mum, I'm Alien Pregnant
2019 ROUND 1
Martha Hardy-Ward - Roaring Meg
Hweiling Ow & Mia Maramara - Grafted
Gavin McGibbon - Old Hand
Pennie Hunt - Riding Blind
2018 ROUND 2
Madeleine Sheahan - Seven Stars
Sima Urale - Solo
Jeremiah Tauamiti - Garden City Nights
Mika Haka - Carmen
2018 ROUND 1
Josephine Stewart - Ace
Rachel O'Neill - Underground Fires
Diane Young - Mr Wellington
Steve Barr & Daryl Belbin - The Geometry of Souls
2017 ROUND 2
Peter Force - Introduced Species
Alex Sutherland - Jump
David Hay - South West
Tanya Moir - Star-Crossed
2017 ROUND 1
Ro Bright - The Owl and the Bellbird
René Le Bas - Kindred Spirit
Stephanie Matuku - How Tui and Kae Found their Mother
Danny Mulheron & Nua Finau - Dox
2016 ROUND 3
Will Agnew - Abraxas
Steven Baker - The Graveyard Shift
Ciarin Smith & David Butler - Tama
Tim Van Dammen - One Man's Peace
2016 ROUND 2
Nathalie Boltt - Holy Days
Dean Hewison & Richard Faulkner - Tough Crowd
Paul Simei-Barton - Til My Heart Stops
2016 ROUND 1
Shoshana Sachidhanandam - The Black Dog
Fiona Jackson & Daniel Fleming - Rememberance
Stephen Kang - Luna
2015 ROUND 3
Joe Lonie - Flagfall
Anna Francino & Siobhan Marshall - Bara
2015 ROUND 2
Jonothan Cullinane - I See Red
Ross Hastings - Harrodsville
Jason Lei Howden - Deathgasm 2
2015 ROUND 1
Steve Barr & Casey Whelan - Passage
Daryl Belbin - The Watchmaker
Charlie Bleakley - Untitled Sci-Fi Comedy
Cushla Dillon - The Great Destroyer
2014 ROUND 3
Max Currie - Life In Subtitles
Warren Friend - Apartment
Jeremy Wadzinski - The Last Surrender
2014 ROUND 2
Juliet Bergh - Hannah's Birthday
Arthur Meek - Junk
Aidee Walker - Postie
Miriam Smith - I Put a Spell On You
2014 ROUND 1
Andrew James - From Te Anu to the Moon
Dianne Taylor - Tender Age
Jackie van Beek and Madeleine Sami - The Breaker Upperers
Seed Advanced
2023 ROUND 2
Kate McDermott - Invisible
Angeline Loo & Poata Alvie McKree - Hungry Ghosts
2023 ROUND 1
Hweiling Ow - Pohpoh wants to Die
Rouzie Hassanova - Tulpar
2022 ROUND 2
Robyn Paterson - Birdwatching
Jess Karamjeet - But Then There Was Ella
2022 ROUND 1
Sophie Henderson & Curtis Vowell - The Resort
Himiona Grace & Patricia Grace - Tū, God of War
2021 ROUND 2
Rene Le Bas - Saviour
Jesse Griffin - Childish
2021 ROUND 1
Stephanie Cullen - Whaiaipo
Tusi Tamasese - Moonflower
2020 ROUND 2
Jon Coutts - Ezekiel Craw & His Cross-Eyed Daughter
Nic Gorman - White Mars
2020 ROUND 1
Brendan Donovan - The Child
Andrew Todd - Cookie Cutter
2019 ROUND 2
Steven Page - The Man Who Began It
Jackie van Beek & Armagan Ballantyne - Wolves
2019 ROUND 1
Sophie Henderson - Murder Club
Thomas Augustine - Arsonist
2018 ROUND 2
Christopher Dudman - We Will Not Cease
Justin Harwood - The Letter
2018 ROUND 1
Steven Page - Rack
Kathryn Burnett - Bad Aunty
2017 ROUND 2
Fiona Samuel - A Handful of Days
Patrick Gillies - Mad Cows
2017 ROUND 1
Stuart Hoar - Beatrice
Dane Giraud - Unnatural
About Seed & Seed Advanced
Seed
NZWG Seed Grants are offered over two rounds with a total of twelve grants of $10,000 (+ any applicable GST) per year for the development of a first draft of a feature film script. Seed is open to emerging writers who haven’t yet written and had produced a feature film. Included in each grant is $2,500 (+ any applicable GST) to put toward script consultation.
Seed Advanced
NZWG Seed Advanced Grants are offered over two rounds with a total of four grants of $12,500 (+ any applicable GST) per year for the development of feature film scripts. Seed Advanced is open to established writers who have more than 90 minutes of scripted broadcast credits. Included in each grant is $2,500 (+ any applicable GST) for further development of the feature film script. This can include (but is not limited to) workshops, table reads, research and multiple script consultants.
Applicants can only apply to one fund per round – either Seed or Seed Advanced. One or more applications may be submitted per round.
With thanks to the
New Zealand Film Commission
for their support.