Re:Frame
NOYIFF Campus Screening Programme
Cinema returns to campus.
Young voices return to the screen.
Re:Frame is NOYIFF's campus screening programme, created to bring bold, fresh and future-facing films by young creators into universities, art schools and youth communities.
It is not only a screening event.
It is a space for watching, questioning, discussing and imagining together.
At a time when cinema is being reshaped by live-action filmmaking, AI, hybrid creation, vertical storytelling and new visual languages, Re:Frame brings emerging voices back to one of the places where new ideas often begin: the campus.
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Why It Exists
A young film should not only live on a submission platform, inside a jury room, or at an awards ceremony.
It should travel.
It should enter classrooms, lecture theatres, student spaces and public conversations. It should meet people who may not already belong to the film industry, but who are ready to be moved, challenged or surprised by a new image.
Re:Frame was created to make that movement possible.
Through campus screenings and post-screening conversations, NOYIFF-selected films and youth-made works can reach students, educators, filmmakers and local audiences in a more direct and living way.
The screen becomes a meeting point.
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In 2026
Re:Frame has already held campus screenings with the University of Waikato and the University of Auckland, forming an early foundation for NOYIFF's university-linked youth cinema network in New Zealand.
In 2026, the programme will continue to develop through new conversations and planned collaborations with more universities and creative communities.
The long-term direction is to grow from individual campus screenings into a wider university-linked screening circuit - beginning in New Zealand, and gradually connecting with universities, film schools, art schools and youth communities internationally.
Possible formats include curated short film showcases, post-screening conversations, student and filmmaker dialogues, thematic screenings and cross-campus cultural exchange.
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Why It Matters
Young creators need more than competitions.
They need audiences.
They need conversations.
They need spaces where their work can continue to live.
For students, Re:Frame offers a direct encounter with global youth cinema.
For universities, it becomes a flexible platform for creative education and cultural exchange.
For young filmmakers, it gives their films a life beyond selection and awards.
If NOYIFF is where youth cinema is discovered, Re:Frame is where it travels.
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A Living Youth Cinema Ecosystem
A festival can be more than a calendar of screenings.
For NOYIFF, the festival is a structure for connection - between creators and audiences, students and educators, local communities and international voices, traditional cinema and new forms of moving image.
The annual festival is one part of that structure.
Around it, NOYIFF is developing a broader ecosystem: campus screenings, community events, filmmaker conversations, international exchange, youth arts networks and collaborative cultural projects.
The aim is simple: let young films move further, let young creators meet more people, and let cinema remain alive in the places where new ideas are still being formed.