FeatheStrength and Inside Gaza take top honours at Doc Edge Awards Night
On Wednesday evening Doc Edge held its annual awards as part of the 2026 Doc Edge Festival at Grand Millennium Auckland. More than 30 awards were presented, recognising outstanding documentaries, immersive projects and filmmakers from New Zealand and around the world. Doc Edge is an Academy Awards® qualifying festival for feature and short documentary films. The winners […]
A light left on: The Bookstore That Never Sleeps comes to Doc Edge
If you love bookshops, you will feel seen. Justin, the fillmaker is travelling from Nova Scotia to New Zealand for the festival.
1News – The unexploded bombs still threatening a Pacific nation 80 years on
Watch the interview – “The War Below” – New documentary covers unexploded World War 2 bombs buried across the Solomon Islands.
RNZ – Cultural harvesting of deceased tohora following a whale stranding in Unlikely Kin
Mihingarangi talks to the documentary’s directors Kim Webby and Michael Jonathan.
Special 3-Day Christchurch Showcase to UC Kōawa Studios
Oscar-qualifying Doc Edge Festival, in partnership with Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha | University of Canterbury (UC)’s Kōawa Studios and co-sponsored by Screen Canterbury, is bringing a curated selection of films from its 2026 programme to Ōtautahi Christchurch for a special three-day showcase at UC’s Jack Mann Theatre from 31 July to 2 August. The Christchurch Showcase will feature 13 documentary […]
RNZ – Music and the Mystical Experience
Michael and director, Isabel Corfiatis talk to Susie about what happens when art and neuroscience converge.
RNZ – Royd Tolkien shares his Middle-earth bucket list
The great grandson of J. R. R. Tolkien, Royd Tolkien fufilling his brother, Mike’s bucket list, after he passed away from motor neurone disease at just 39.
RNZ – ‘F the Algorithm’, this year’s documentary festival theme
Listen to Festival co-founder Alex Lee speaking with Guyon Espiner.
Doc Edge Festival 2026 Awards Finalist, Jury and International Guests
More than 20 international filmmakers, producers, immersive creators and documentary subjects are travelling to Aotearoa and available for interviews for the 21st edition of the Oscar-qualifying Doc Edge Festival, joining an outstanding line-up of New Zealand and international finalists competing for this year’s Doc Edge Awards. Doc Edge Festival will showcase 87 films and immersive projects, including 28 world premieres, […]
Our Auckland – World Press Photo and Doc Edge Immersive Exhibition
RNZ – Film festival combines with photo exhibition to document our lives
Our Auckland – Doc Edge Festival 2026
World Press Photo & Doc Edge Immersive Exhibition in Auckland
Doc Edge Festival and the Rotary Club of Auckland are proud to announce World Press Photo & Doc Edge Immersive Exhibition 2026, a landmark new exhibition that merges the internationally acclaimed World Press Photo Exhibition with the Doc Edge Immersive Exhibition into a single, unmissable cultural event. Running 24 June to 12 July 2026 at the iconic Smith & […]
Doc Edge Festival 2026 marks its 21st year
The Oscar®-qualifying Doc Edge Festival marks its 21st year with a bold opening slate — sixteen films that take audiences inside a Gaza conflict zone, into the world of AI companionship, onto the set of a fatal Hollywood shooting, and deep into the criminal underworld of Aotearoa. From competitive dance floors to a bucket list written by […]
Doc Edge Welcomes New Festival Producer, Hunter Weeks
Doc Edge Welcomes New Festival Producer: Hunter Weeks We are delighted to announce the appointment of Hunter Weeks as Producer for the Doc Edge Festival. Hunter brings a rare blend of filmmaking, event production, and partnership development experience. He has produced eight feature documentaries, including five released on Netflix, and was behind the first feature‑length documentary […]
Doc Edge signed MOU to launch in Singapore
Doc Edge, New Zealand’s Oscar®-Qualifying Documentary Festival, Arrives in Singapore The Singapore Film Society (SFS), the nation’s longest-established cinema organisation, has signed a landmark Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Doc Edge, Oscar®-Qualifying internationally recognised documentary festival, to launch Doc Edge Singapore. For two decades, Doc Edge has been the beating heart of Asia-Pacific’s documentary movement […]