Script to Screen - South Auckland Short Film Workshop - 2026

Anyone - no matter their filmmaking experience, can learn to develop their short film ideas. 

On Saturday 7th of November, join Script to Screen's South Auckland Short Film Workshop to feel empowered with the tools to make your story come to life. 

This Workshop will be lead by accomplished and award-winning filmmaker and scholar Tavu’i Dr. Marina Alofagia McCartney. (Sāmoa - Sāmoeleoi, Sālilomaiava; England - Geordie, Romanichal). She is the filmmaker behind Milk & Honey (2012), which depicts the Samoan experience of the Dawn Raids, and wrote and directed the Samoan vignette in Vai (2019), which opened NATIVe at the Berlinale. Her work has screened at Palm Springs, NZIFF, imagineNATIVE, SXSW, Edinburgh, Sydney and Melbourne. She is one of the most credited Pacific women screenwriters in prime-time NZ television (My Life is Murder, Blue Murder Motel, The Brokenwood Mysteries). Her short The Return is on the festival circuit, and she is currently writing her next feature film for a US-NZ co-production. 

Sign up for this illuminating and empowering workshop via Humanitix to take your storytelling to the next level.

Saturday 7th November 2026
9am - 4pm

Friendship House, 20 Putney Way, Manukau, South Auckland
The venue is wheelchair accessible 

Cost: $12.50 (INC BF & GST) Book via Humanitix
Morning tea and afternoon tea provided, BYO lunch


What to bring:

• Pen, paper/notebook or iPad or laptop
  We do not advise participants to take notes on phones.

• Water bottle

• Keep cup

• Lunch (Cafe and foodcourt close by if required)

TAVU’I DR. MARINA ALOFAGIA MCCARTNEY

This Workshop will be lead by accomplished and award-winning filmmaker and scholar Tavu’i Dr. Marina Alofagia McCartney. (Sāmoa – Sāmoeleoi, Sālilomaiava; England – Geordie, Romanichal). She is the filmmaker behind Milk & Honey (2012), which depicts the Samoan experience of the Dawn Raids, and wrote and directed the Samoan vignette in Vai (2019), which opened NATIVe at the Berlinale. Her work has screened at Palm Springs, NZIFF, imagineNATIVE, SXSW, Edinburgh, Sydney and Melbourne. She is one of the most credited Pacific women screenwriters in prime-time NZ television (My Life is Murder, Blue Murder Motel, The Brokenwood Mysteries). Her short The Return is on the festival circuit, and she is currently writing her next feature film for a US-NZ co-production.

This workshop is made possible thanks to generous support from Foundation North and Auckland Council Creative Communities Scheme.