WOODGLEN STUDIOS NEWS

CCC decides against supporting Festivities:
https://canterburypilgrims.nz/no-support-for-milestone-canterbury-anniversary-event/

BUT YAY!! The Mayor has intervened!!
https://www.chrislynchmedia.com/news-items/phil-mauger-intervenes-after-public-backlash-over-councils-refusal-to-support-canterburys-175th-anniversary/

FIVE KINGDOMS Special Screenings in LYTTLETON & CHRISTCHURH to be announced!

FIVE KINGDOMS at the Carnevale di Venicia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnival_of_Venice

Everyone welcome - a Premiere during the Carnevale

WHEN: 8.30pm 3rd of Feb 2025

WHERE: Cinema Dante, Venice, Italy.

HOW: Get some air tickets…. plus your authentic Masquerade costume together & join in the suspension of the sumptuory laws which ends on “Pancake Day” (Shrove Tuesday before Lent).

For those not going we have some plans for festivities here in NZ!!

A wonderful service by Geoff Cotton to consecrate a permanent memorial for Josyln at the Lumiere Cinema.

https://dailytelegraph.co.nz/art-and-entertainment/memorial-plaque-unveiled-to-commemorate-nz-actress-joslyn-brandt/

Congratulations to David Blake for a Lifetime Award for his work in International Cinema.

The Wizard stole the show arriving in a London Cab!

CONGRATULATIONS TO:

Most Popular Historical Cinema Documentary - Andrew Prouting & Samuel Miller - Mesopotamia High Country Story - Executive Producers, Don Prouting, Jennifer Prouting, Valme Prouting, Laurence Prouting, Ray Prouting & Frank Prouting.

Services to the Film Industry - Nick Paris

Best Local TV Actor - Herbie Berger

4. Most Dangerous Stunt involving Fire - Retired Senior Station Officer Woodend Fire Brigade Robbie Boyd

Best Supernatural Actor - Dale Goodman

Services to English Country Dancing, Scottish Country Dance & Macedonian Dance - Sugra Morley

SFX Award Achievement - Epiphanie Baine

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Historical & Cultural - Lifetime Achievement Awards

Lifetime Achievement Award Miniature Steam - Jock Miller Hamilton Jet, Halswell Steam Club President & President Old Boys Assoc STAC

Lifetime Science Award Physics - Dr Glyn Jones, Oxford University, UCLA & University of Canterbury, Spectroscopy Research, Recipient of 1851 Exhibition Scholorship

Services to Conservation - Karl Barkley, Save Marsden Point

Service to the Film Industry 2024 - Anglican Minister Geoff Cotton

Joslyn Brandt Permanent Memorial unveiled at the Lumiere Cinema - beside a painting of Federico Fellini.

Thankyou Anglican Minister Geoff Cotton, Diana Castillo & Phillip Stott (Joslyns Step Father) for your wonderful words for one of our Stars.

A memory of Joslyn is now where it should be - a great Cinema.