The Candle Wasters

The search for the greatest episode of a New Zealand webseries ever made

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In this completely unbiased search, we asked New Zealand webseries makers to pick their favourite episodes and tell us the stories behind them.  Roseanne Liang of Flat 3 The absolute best thing about making webseries, for me, is creative freedom. The budgets are so low, and the viewership so niche that you can take risks … Read more

Five things you need to know about the Candle Wasters. Or, Why you should give a Puck

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A group of young Wellingtonians have scored millions of online views for their idiosyncratic Shakespearean revamps. With the launch of their third series, Bright Summer Night, we asked them to explain themselves, and they sent us a video. The first two web series by the Candle Wasters put a girdle around the earth in hardly … Read more