"I look back with pride on the astounding array of national and international filmmaking that has found its first New Zealand audience at NZIFF.
[12][13] The 2024 festival will start in July, but will only screen in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin (and in fewer venues, and over few days), cutting out Hamilton, Tauranga, Palmerston North, New Plymouth, Masterton, Hawke's Bay, Whangarei, Gisborne, Nelson, Gore and Timaru.
Rescued from this role by the intervention of the New Zealand Federation of Film Societies in 1984, the AIFF achieved an audience in excess of 100,000 for the first time in 2005.
[3] Founded in 1977, the Dunedin manifestation of the Festival presented a highlights package of 75 features, plus short films, at the Regent Theatre.
Provincial centres covered by the festival included Gore, Hamilton, Hawke's Bay, Masterton, New Plymouth, Palmerston North, Tauranga and Timaru.
The New Zealand Film Festival Trust, which runs the NZIFF, is a registered charitable entity under the Charities Act 2005, registration number CC23151.
[15] Current board members are:[update] Catherine Fitzgerald (Chair), Robin Laing, Tearepa Kahi, Chris Hormann (appointed by the New Zealand Federation of Film Societies), Andrew Langridge, Toby Manhire, Sharon Menzies and Kaine Thompson.