Joining the NZCS
NZCS offers four categories of membership as follows:
Full Membership:
A full member is a person who is and has been an active professional cinematographer for at least 5 years. All applications for Full membership are reviewed by the committee for final approval.
Associate Member:
An Associate member is a person who is either a cinematographer who does not meet the criteria of Full Membership, or any other person working in an allied craft such as camera operators, camera assistants, lighting, grips, colourists and editors.
All applications for Associate membership are reviewed by the committee for final approval. Associate members do not have any voting rights within the society.
Honorary Member:
An honorary member is a person upon whom honorary membership has been bestowed at the discretion of the committee. An honorary member is not liable for annual membership fees.
Corporate Member:
Corporate membership is offered to Companies and organizations providing services, goods or equipment to the New Zealand Screen Production Industry who share the ideals of NZCS. Corporate members do not have any voting rights within the society. Corporate members are able to be represented at any NZCS event or meeting which is open to the wider membership base. The number of representatives from any one corporate member permitted to attend any NZCS event or meeting shall be limited to 2 unless agreed in writing in advance by the NZCS committee.
Corporate members shall be listed on any website that NZCS may choose to publish under the heading of “Corporate members”. Corporate membership does not imply that NZCS and it’s members endorse any goods, services or equipment supplied by the corporate member. All corporate members shall provide to the secretary of NZCS, details of a “point of contact person” who is either engaged or employed by the applicant and to whom all communications can be forwarded.
All applications for corporate membership are reviewed by the committee for final approval.
An annual Corporate membership fee of $500 plus a one off joining fee of $25 is payable once any application has been approved by the committee.
To join as a corporate member please email
Standard Membership Fees:
Full $ 240.00
Associate $ 180.00
Joining Fee $ 25.00
Please fill out the form below if you wish to join:
IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR ALL APPLICANTS:
Once your application has been accepted the letters NZCS are not to be used as an accreditation behind your name in any way including on screen credits. The New Zealand Cinematographers Society does not have an accreditation process (at this time) and your acceptance of membership by the committee in no way implies an accreditation bestowed upon you. All paid up members are most welcome to remind people on your CV, website or signature that you are “a Full member of NZCS” or “Associate member of NZCS”.
