A generation of screen practitioners has learned how to create content for global markets and build viable screen businesses.
Through long experience, they’ve acquired valuable screen business know-how. But this knowledge is not written down or taught in universities.
Young practitioners entering the industry have to learn through trial and error, re-inventing solutions to problems that others have solved long before them.
RAINMAKERS will capture a generation’s hard-won business knowledge and systematically share it with the next generation of screen practitioners.
Rainmakers Podcast Series
Workshops
AUT | Auckland | 19th November 2025
Sharon Menzies & Polly Fryer– Film Financing in NZ: Status Quo, Challenges and Opportunities
Paul Wiegard, Jasmin McSweeney & Stallone Vaiaoga-Ioasa– It All Starts With Audience – Audience-First Financing
Alex Reed– Case Study: Cats in Conflict
David Court & Matthew Metcalfe– Thinking Outside the Box
Emma Slade– Case Study: Uproar and Lomu
RMIT Campus | Melbourne| 6th August 2025
Katie Shortland
Tony Ayres
Auckland 14th March
The Ship in Cox’s Bay
Rachel Antony – Squiggly lines to leadership
Matthew Liebmann – The future of cinema and your part in it
Sue Maslin – IP gold: rights management as a business model
Tom Hern – Partnering with others in a creative venture
Rainmakers is Produced in Partnership with:
