Taika Waititi’s new film Hunt for the Wilderpeople – a dramatisation of Barry Crump’s 1986 novel Wild Pork & Watercress – is to premiere at the opening weekend of the 2016 Sundance Film Festival in the prestigious Friday night slot at the Eccles Theatre in Salt Lake City, Utah. 

Claire Waddington, the Sydney-based Australia & NZ marketing & comms manager of APAC media intelligence company Isentia is on a mission to spread the Twitter message to brands in this part of the world …

Fairfax Media’s Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and Stuff.co.nz have announced a launch partnership with Facebook in Australia & New Zealand to continue the social media platform’s global rollout of its Instant Articles programme.

CAANZ has issued the entry call for the 2016 Beacon Awards (formerly the Media Awards). The entry process closes on Tuesday 23 February – but late entries will be accepted (with a fee) up to Thursday 25 February.

Eighty percent of Kiwis using Facebook are connected to a small-medium business, according to new data from the social networking site. Now Facebook is introducing new features to help SMBs manage communications with customers.

Five new design categories have been added to NZ’s premier creative advertising awards show – Design 360, Brand Experience/Environmental, User Experience, and Product Design Tech & Non-Tech – for next year’s Axis Awards at Vector Arena.

Parnell-based Rainger & Rolfe has won the $1.5 million Otago University creative account following a lengthy pitch.

Colenso BBDO is the only NZ agency to taste success at the B&T Awards in Melbourne on Friday, winning State Agency of the Year (NZ) and Experiential Agency of the Year.