About South Seas
South Seas Film & Television School has been fuelling the film and television industry for 27 years.
Founded by Gerben Cath in 1991 using his film production studio facilities on Auckland's North Shore, our South Seas Film and Television training is grounded in intensive, hands-on courses.
The school has bred an army of creatives in post-production, directing, scriptwriting, art and design, animation and VFX, acting and photography.
Throw a stone at a film set in New Zealand and you're bound to hit a South Seas Film & Television School graduate.
About South Seas
Tour the studio
Set up like a real-life Hollywood-style studio, the South Seas Film School Campus is a 40,000 square foot production complex housing every piece of specialty equipment you could need to bring your ideas to life.
Focused around one-year intensives, your studies here replicate the rigours of the industry and you will graduate ready to hit the ground running.
Home to our On-screen Acting course, the theatre is equipped with a big screen and full THX-certified sound.
Our state-of-the-art television studio is equipped with four Blackmagic 4K cameras. There’s a production control room, a high-tech post-production suite and an industry-grade recording studio with soundproof booth. Our production facilities include a production office for meetings, a director’s room for developing ideas, and Avid Cinemas for viewing rough cuts and experimental work.
There’s always something cool taking shape here. Housed in a separate building, the Set-building Workshop and Art Department feature a large workshop, classroom, open-plan design office, production meeting room, costume and makeup department and prop storage rooms.
There are five of these – a massive 216 square-metre white space with a six-metre ceiling plus four smaller studios, all equipped with pro lighting and rigging equipment. The studios have two Apple Mac labs, each with 16 machines running Adobe Creative Cloud.
What we teach
Artistic? Technical? Organised? Whatever your strengths, our hands-on programmes help you turn them into a specialist role, from directing and screenwriting to set and costume design, makeup or visual effects.
Depending on your goals, you can start a six-month introduction course, get work-ready with a one-year full-time diploma, or choose any of our pathway programmes that focus on specialist technical skills.
Screenwriting
Directing
On-screen Acting
Documentary Directing
Art and Design
Camera Audio and Lighting
Photography
Post-production
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