New Zealand Media

An index of media originating in New Zealand.

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Advertising

• Air New Zealand Safety Videos
• Claude the Cat

Art

• Laser Kiwi flag

Artists

• Michelle Ang
• KJ Apa
• Zoë Bell
• Gina Bellman^note English actress born in New Zealand before relocating to England
• Manu Bennett
• Kerry Bishe^note American actress born in New Zealand before moving to the US with her family
• Grant Bowler
• Lesley-Ann Brandt

• Martin Campbell
• Jane Campion
• Keisha Castle-Hughes
• Danielle Cormack
• Russell Crowe
• Cliff Curtis
• Marton Csokas
• Alan Dale
• Rhys Darby
• Julian Dennison
• Katrina Devine
• Roger Donaldson^note director who was born in Australia

• Daniel Gillies
• Lisa Harrow
• Martin Henderson

• Rachel House
• Peter Jackson
• Simone Kessell
• Beulah Koale
• Emma Lahana
• Jay Laga'aia
• Michelle Langstone
• Lucy Lawless
• Bruno Lawrence^note actor who was born in the UK
• Nathaniel Lees
• Melanie Lynskey

• Rose McIver

• Thomasin McKenzie
• Temuera Morrison

• Sam Neill
• Ninja Kiwi
• Dean O'Gorman

• Anna Paquin
• Craig Parker
• Caren Pistorius^note actress born in South Africa, lived in New Zealand since the age of 12
• Antonia Prebble
• Tessa Rao
• Clive Revill
• Jonno Roberts^note Later moved to the US in 1999
• Zoë Robins
• Jay Ryan
• Bruce Spence
• Antony Starr
• Pamela Stephenson^note Born in New Zealand and later moved to Australia
• Alex Tarrant
• Olivia Tennet

• Joel Tobeck
• Karl Urban
• Taika Waititi

• WETA
• Brooke Williams
• Dean Wray

Authors

• Pip Ballantine
• Margaret Mahy
• Ngaio Marsh
• Tamsyn Muir
• BJK White
• Cherry Wilder

Comics

• Footrot Flats
• Love Is...

Film

• 6 Days (co-production with Britain)
• An Angel at My Table (co-production with Australia and Britain)
• Bad Taste
• Battletruck
• Black Sheep (2007)
• Boy (2010)
• Braindead
• Buddy (co-production with America)
• Coming Home In The Dark
• The Dead Lands
• Deathgasm
• Death Warmed Up
• District 9 (international co-production)
• Eagle Vs Shark
• Fly Away Home (international co-production)
• Fresh Meat
• The Frighteners (co-production with America)
• Goodbye Pork Pie
• Heavenly Creatures
• The Hobbit
  • The Lord of the Rings
• Housebound
• Hunt for the Wilderpeople
• King Kong (2005)
• The Legend of Johnny Lingo
• The Locals
• Love Birds
• Meet the Feebles
• Mortal Engines
• Nate and Hayes
• Once Were Warriors
• Perfect Creature
• Pork Pie
• The Piano
• The Quiet Earth
• Race for the Yankee Zephyr
• Shadow in the Cloud
• Sleeping Dogs (1977)
• They/Them (2020)
• They Shall Not Grow Old (co-production with Britain)
• Tongan Ninja
• Turbo Kid
• Two Cars, One Night
• Utu
• The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep
• Whale Rider
• What We Do in the Shadows
• The World's Fastest Indian

Funding

• New Zealand On Air

Let's Plays

• Cobbledump
• Sunfire SG

Literature

• The Bone People
• The Books of the Order
• I Am Not Esther
• Light Thickens
• Milly, Molly
• Photo Finish
• Sanctuary
• Stim
• This Other World
• Tripswitch
• Wise Phuul

Live-Action TV

• The Almighty Johnsons
• The Amazing Extraordinary Friends
• The Beatles: Get Back (co-production with America and Britain)
• The Brokenwood Mysteries
• Bumble
• Cleverman
• Country Calendar
• Creamerie
• The Cul De Sac
• Diplomatic Immunity
• Freaky

• Golden Boy NZ
• The Legend of William Tell
• Maddigan's Quest
• My Life Is Murder (Australian-New Zealand co-production)
• Outrageous Fortune
• Seven Periods with Mr Gormsby
• Shortland Street
• Space Knights
• Spartacus: Blood and Sand
• Taskmaster (NZ)
• Top of the Lake
• Tracker
• The Tribe
• Underbelly NZ: Land of the Long Green Cloud
• Wellington Paranormal

Music

• Alien Weaponry
• Crowded House
  • 1993 - Together Alone
• Flight of the Conchords
  • Jemaine Clement
• Gin Wigmore
• Hayley Westenra
• Kimbra
• Lorde - Easily the most successful New Zealand artist worldwide.
  • 2013 - The Love Club
  • 2013 - Pure Heroine
  • 2017 - Melodrama
  • 2021 - Solar Power
• OMC
• Graeme Revell
• Split Enz
• Ulcerate
• Stan Walker
• Various artists
  • 2001 - The Underwater Melon Man

Professional Wrestling

• Travis Banks
• Bad Luck Fale
• Mana The Polynesian Warrior
• Toni Storm^note Australian wrestler born in New Zealand
• Jay White
• The Bushwhackers

Tabletop Games

• Flames of War

Video Games

• AMID EVIL
• Ashen
• Automation
• Best Friend Forever
• Blood Drive
• Bloons
  • Bloons Tower Defense
    • Bloons Adventure Time TD
    • Bloons Monkey City
    • Bloons TD Battles
  • Bloons Super Monkey
• Casebook Trilogy
• DayZ (co-production with the Czech Republic)
• Depth
• Distant Worlds
• DREDGE
• Gloom
• Madagascar Kartz
• Mini Metro
  • Mini Motorways
• Path of Exile
• SAS Zombie Assault
• Seek And Destroy
• Shatter
• Tallowmere
• Turbo Overkill
• Umurangi Generation

Web Animation

• Hector's World
• Andrew Kepple
  • Colin Mochrie vs. Jesus H. Christ
  • Spy & Pyro
  • StrifeToons
• Monkey Wrench

Web Original

• Ill Bethisad

Web Video

• AFK
• Izzzyzzz
• Joseph's Machines (co-production with the United States)
• Nothing Much To Do
• That Dude in the Suede
• Viva La Dirt League

Western Animation

• Bro Town
• The Frog, the Dog, and the Devil
• Master Raindrop
• Mosley
• Oscar And Friends
• Sparkle Friends
• Staines Down Drains

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