EDGE #368 Taika Waititi Gives Vampire Film New Life + 12 Stories

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News of Global New Zealanders From Brian Sweeney, publisher, NZEDGE.COM | 19 June 2019 | #368 | New York Researched, edited and produced by Jane Nye (Wellington), Carla Hofler (Auckland) and Alexandra Burnside (New York). See all stories and a 15,000 story archive of international New Zealand news 2000-2019 at NZEDGE/MEDIA. Fern symbol by www.nzflag.com founded by Lloyd Morrison. Film & TV | Hollywood Reporter 20 June 2019 Taika Waititi Gives Vampire Film New Life In-demand director Taika Waititi reveals to The Hollywood Reporter what it took for him and fellow New Zealander, Jemaine Clement to develop a TV show based on their 2014 film, What We Do in the Shadows and finding the right tone: “It was about just keeping it real… Visual Arts | Art Newspaper (The) 15 June 2019 Berlin-Based Simon Denny Opens Show in Hobart New Zealand artist Simon Denny, who lives in Berlin, talks to The Art Newspaper’s Tim Stone about his latest exhibition, Mine, which has just opened at Hobart’s…   Visual Arts | Contemporary HUM 15 June 2019 Artist Jono Rotman On Guns, Mongrelism, San Francisco Newly published on online art platform Contemporary HUM, artist and arts writer Emil McAvoy interviews US-based, New Zealand photographer…   Music | Exclaim! 16 June 2019 Jordan Rakei’s Third Album Shifts Focus “Jordan Rakei, the New Zealand-born, Australia-raised collaborator who quickly made a name for himself within London’s varied music scene, has shifted his focus on…   Business | Fortune 17 June 2019 Hilton Boss Alan Watts Sets His Sights on India Alan Watts, Asia-Pacific president of iconic hotel brand Hilton, which turns 100 this month, is bullish on India, Ashish Gupta writes for Fortune. New…   Theatre 17 June 2019 Cabaret Performer Sophie Koh at Centre Stage Profoundly inclusive and spectacularly eclectic, cabaret is what ‘theatre could have been if it hadn’t started building walls’. “Growing up, I never saw anyone…   Wine | Forbes 19 June 2019 How an American Became a Central Otago Winemaker Jen Parr was recently nominated by Gourmet Traveller WINE magazine as one of 6 finalists for New Zealand Winemaker of the Year in 2019. How did she end up…   Innovation | Stuff 15 June 2014 5 Years Ago – Some of the Best Technology Talent in the World Bringing New Zealand tech whizz kids to Silicon Valley for a summer of work experience at startup company Pertino is…   Travel & Tourism | Desert News 19 June 2009 10 Years Ago – Near Perfect North The Bay of Islands “is not only South Pacific-beautiful, it has been an important crucible for New Zealand’s…   Sport | ms2s 14 June 2004 15 Years Ago – A Race of Extremes John O’Loghlen (NZ investment banker at Goldman Sachs, NY) and Rosa Volz (Wellington IT worker) were the first non-Mongolian man and woman…   Legends | Change 26 May 2000 Legends – Kate Shephard The leader and main figurehead of the suffragist movement in New Zealand – the first country in the world to grant universal adult suffrage to men and…   Legends | Change 20 July 2000 Legends – Rewi Alley Rewi Alley; social reformer, educator, fireman, writer, poet, translator, great internationalist, industrialist, revered citizen, potter, soldier, a hero and a friend…   Legends | Change 1 August 2009 Legends – Ettie Rout Reviled and lauded in equal parts, Ettie Rout was a woman before her time, a career woman in pre-World War I Christchurch, and then a tireless campaigner in the war…