Rainmakers Aotearoa

Script to Screen, in collaboration with Compton School, is excited to offer a new innovative mentorship programme that will continue to nourish the screen sector in Aotearoa New Zealand. 

Rainmaker Aotearoa will harness the knowledge of a generation of exceptional individuals and through a co-designed approach, enable the transferring of this knowledge to the next generation of screen sector changemakers. This knowledge and experience is critical information that is not typically written down or taught at universities.

Research shows that mentoring delivers highly effective learning and outcomes. The best mentors ‘raise all boats’, increasing the output and creativity of everyone around them. Which is why we are proud to offer this opportunity to screen industry professionals in Aotearoa. 

* This whakatauī is from a waiata composed by early members of Te Ataarangi in honour of Dame Kāterina Mataira and the kaupapa of Te Ataarangi in Te Reo language revitalisation – which continues today. It describes how a single person or kaupapa (kotahi kapua) can have great impact, just like one lifegiving rain shower on the parched land.