Screentime Corporate Television

New Zealand's premier producers of television and corporate communications.

Screentime is one of New Zealand's leading producers of actuality television, documentary and corporate video. The company came to be known as Screentime, after its Australian owners, in February 2004, but its origins date back more than 20 years.

The company started out as Communicado in the 1980s and went on to create a wide range of ground breaking feature films, including "Once Were Warriors","Crooked Earth" and "Broken English", hundreds of hours of factual TV series, documentaries and internationally distributed dramas such as "Greenstone" and "The Chosen".
In 2001 the company merged with one of Australia's most dynamic production companies, Screentime, and became known as Screentime-Communicado. This led to top rating shows such as Middlemore, Single Girls, The Big Art Trip, Stripsearch, travel.co.nz and Grass Roots Business, and long-running series such as Police Ten 7 and Marae DIY, Crimescene and Beyond the Darklands.

Corporate clients included Air New Zealand, Genesis Energy, Contact Energy, MAF, ACC, Agriquality, Westland District Council, and James Hardy.

At the start of the 2007 year Steve King and his company Video Promotions joined Screentime to run its corporate television division. One of New Zealand's top corporate video production companies, Video Promotions had over 15 years in business, and over 1,700 satisfied clients throughout Australasia. This expertise joining with Screentime's has created a formidable corporate television team.

Companies such as Microsoft New Zealand, DB Breweries, Telecom Mobile, Pacific Retail Group, QANTAS, Whitcoulls, Mercedes, Watercare, Macquarie Goodman and Lockheed Martin, Linfox, Vodafone have used Video Promotions' expertise to produce everything from internal product launches, external communication and staff training videos to CDROM based sales presentations.

A major strength of Screentime is the ability to handle