‘We can shoot any world we want’: New $95m film studio planned for Christchurch

by Stuff — 22 January 2022

The Digital Screen Campus at the University of Canterbury’s Christchurch will create a screen hub for big-budget commercial films, as well as indie productions and games. The education and studio facility will be completed in phases until 2025 and include film studio space, editing, and visual effect suites, recording spaces, a green screen facility, and a motion capture studio.

A planned $95 million education and studio facility at the University of Canterbury’s Christchurch campus will create a screen hub for big budget commercial films, as well as indie productions and games, proponents say.

The Digital Screen Campus will be completed in phases until 2025 and include film studio space, editing and visual effect suites, recording spaces, a green screen facility, and a motion capture studio.

The plan comes as three Christchurch companies collaborated to create short films using a groundbreaking new visual effects technique on the university campus this week.

Campus programme director Andy Phelps said the new facility could attract major feature film productions to Canterbury.

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