Top Reasons to Film in Marlborough

Located in New Zealand’s South Island, Marlborough offers easy access to stunning locations and studio space. Discover the benefits of shooting here.

Film Permits

If you’re thinking about filming in Marlborough, you’ll need to apply for a film permit. Complete your application form here.

Explore Marlborough

Marlborough Highlights

DAY 1. Wine Country. Arrive in Marlborough in the morning ready to start your wine tour late morning. Join a guided van or bike tour, or hire a bike, and choose from more than...

Getting to Marlborough

Getting to Marlborough couldn't be easier with so many ways to travel!

Meet in Marlborough

Planning your business event, conference, convention or incentive group in Marlborough is easy and, in a region known for its warm, genuine hospitality, will set your event apart from the rest. Marlborough has a wide selection of unique venues that specialise in organising and hosting events of all kinds and sizes. This is truly the ideal place to welcome your delegates, clients or colleagues for a successful and memorable event.

Live in Marlborough

Understand what makes Marlborough a great place to live and find out whether its lifestyle is the right choice for your next move.

Work in Marlborough

Marlborough has world-leading industries that need smart people. Here, you can build your career and find work-life balance.

Screen Marlborough

Marlborough is a unique, accessible and affordable location for screen productions. View our diverse locations and apply for a film permit.

Explore Marlborough

Explore Marlborough run biking and driving wine tours of the Marlborough wine region. Our biking wine tours can be guided or self-guided and are a wonderful way to wine tour...

A Slice of Marlborough

Wildlife, Conservation & Picnic Tour We offer an opportunity to get up close with some of New Zealand’s wild species that we breed here for release.

Marlborough Boutique Gins

Marlborough may be known for it's wine, but flourishing within the Marlborough region, craft gin has made its way to being one of the most preferred ways to delight the taste buds. Marlborough’s gin industry is thriving with new Marlborough made craft gin and tasting experiences.

Marlborough Wine Tasting & Tours

As you explore this breathtaking landscape, consider joining a captivating Marlborough wine tour or curate your own trail through the region's stunning vineyards. With an array of options available, it's an experience you wouldn't want to miss during your visit!

Marlborough Sounds Fishing

Head out on the boat, whether it be your own, a mates, or perhaps let the skipper take you to the best spots with a half or full day fishing charter.

The Marlborough Falcon Trust

The Marlborough Falcon Trust is breeding the incredible karearea for release and if you keep your eyes peeled, you may see one cruising above the vines.

Marlborough Sounds Restoration Trust

Visitors to the Marlborough Sounds may notice the odd stand of dead pine trees amid the native bush. The poisoned trees are part of a project by the Marlborough Sounds...

Marlborough Airport Heritage

The airport was one of the first in New Zealand, and also one of the first to accommodate turboprop aircraft. The airfield gained attention in 1928 when the Blenheim Borough...

Marlborough Golf Club

Located among vineyards you’ll enjoy the scenery and course challenge when you play at Marlborough Golf Course, Fairhall, Blenheim - the region’s premier course.

Garden Marlborough Festival

Find out more at www. gardenmarlborough. co. nz.

South Marlborough Awatere Valley

Driving through the golden hills and vineyards of the Awatere Valley, you'll find snow-capped mountains to one side and the blue Pacific Ocean on the other.

Business Events Marlborough

Organisers of seminars, incentives, conferences and retreats are constantly confronted with a variety of challenges. Business Events Marlborough together with a network of...

Marlborough Tech & Innovation Hub

Opening late 2023, Marlborough’s Tech & Innovation Hub will support start-ups and create local investment opportunities for entrepreneurs.

Making Marlborough – the Migrant Story

Making Marlborough – the Migrant Story is a full feature-length documentary that tells Marlborough’s immigrant stories in a contemporary manner for a twenty-first century audience. It is a celebration of the diversity of Marlborough and of the people who now call this place home.

About Destination Marlborough

About Events Marlborough

Marlborough Public House

The perfect place to get away from it all, Marlborough Public House offers great food & great drink in a relaxed & friendly atmosphere.

Bike Hire Marlborough

Bike Hire in the heart of the Marlborough wine region. Hire a bike from Explore Marlborough or our sister company Bike Hire Marlboroughand wine tour by bike for the day around...

Little Marlborough Wine Tours

Spectacular Marlborough wine tours with a legendary and fun tour guide, tailored specifically for you and up to 3 friends. If you're looking for a wine tour with it all...

Marlborough Events Centre

Featuring contemporary design, the purpose-built Marlborough Events Centre is both intimate and spacious, so whether you are planning a small business meeting for 10 or a large...

Marlborough Scenic and Wilderness Tours

Wilderness Adventure a chance to soak up the breathtaking scenery, to explore a truly sublime part of our region and get lost in the landscape.

Marlborough Sounds Adventure Co

Hike the Queen Charlotte Track on one of our quality guided or unguided "adventures.... just the way you like it". Our complete packages feature all the special...

Marlborough Tour Company

Since its inception, Marlborough Tour Company has been owned by families born and bred in Marlborough. This long line of family connection to the region and a total commitment...

Marlborough Wine Barrel Cabins

Live like a Hobbit in Marlborough's only Wine Barrel Cabins. Comfy and cosy, our cabins are nestled between vineyards and olive groves, where you can wake up to birdsong in our...

Marlborough Sounds Wildlife Recovery Centre

Go for a self guided nature walk behind the lodge to come face to face with kune kune pigs, weta, gecko and eels, or to help feed the kakariki in the aviary, which are part of a...

Jimmy’s Classic Marlborough Wine tours

A private wine tour for between one to four guests. Jimmy has worked in the Marlborough wine industry for twenty years from cellar hand to wine tutor.

Cloudy Bay Cellar Door Marlborough

Cloudy Bay's spacious and inviting Cellar Door is located at the winery itself, in the heart of the Marlborough wine region. Enjoy a tasting or a glass of Cloudy Bay wine amidst...

Escape to Marlborough Hop on Hop off

Private Shuttle between Picton and Blenheim. Wherever you need to go between Blenheim and Picton, we can take you in our luxury Mercedes at a very nominal price of $70 for two...

Marlborough Art Gallery Te Kahu o Waipuna

Marlborough Art Gallery, Te Kahu o Waipuna, is Marlborough's new public art gallery located with the Marlborough Library at 15 High Street, Blenheim.

The Real 'Marlborough Wine Tours' | Daily Group Tours and Private Wine Tours

Join us from Blenheim or Picton for one of our famous Marlborough Wine Tours. Our team of wine guides are friendly, knowledgeable and want to ensure you not only taste the best...

Hop 'n Grape Tours - Marlborough Full day wine tours & Half day wine tours

Full day wine tours Marlborough and Marlborough Half day wine tours from Blenheim and Picton. Local Wine maker is the tour guide. Let us open doors to places you could never go...

Case Studies

Filmmakers talk about why they chose Marlborough as backdrop for their stories.

Northspur

Set in a post-apocalyptic New Zealand, the action drama was filmed almost entirely in Marlborough and was written by Nelson-based screenwriter Justin Eade and directed by Marlborough’s Aaron Falvey. 

Buildings

Architecture in Marlborough spans the decades from the late 19th Century to modern builds. Browse our filming locations gallery of Marlborough’s buildings.

Locations

View our photogalleries showcasing Marlborough’s stunning scenery and urban backdrops for screen productions.

Light Between the Oceans

The international production The Light Between Oceans, the adaptation of M. L. Stedman’s best-selling novel, was filmed in 2014 at Cape Campbell on Marlborough’s East Coast as well as in Otago and Tasmania.

Coastal and waterways

Marlborough’s stunning coastal vistas were used in The Light Between the Oceans. Browse our photogallery of Marlborough’s coastal locations.

Rural

From vineyards to farmland to tussock-clad slopes, Marlborough has a range of rural landscapes. Browse our photogallery of Marlborough’s rural locations.

Cities/Towns/Suburbs

Marlborough offers a diversity of urban landscapes from towns through to smaller rural settlements. Browse our photogallery of Marlborough’s city, town and suburb locations.

Forests

From primeval podocarp forest to woodland reserves and coastal bush, Marlborough offers a range of treescapes. Browse our photogallery of Marlborough forest locations.

Mountains

From the vast landscape of the Molesworth to the bush-clad peaks of the Marlborough Sounds, our mountains are distinct. Browse the photogallery of Marlborough's mountain locations.

Parks

Grasslands, forest pockets and English-style gardens can be found in Marlborough’s parks. Browse our photogallery of Marlborough's park locations.

Double As

View our photogallery of Marlborough filming locations that could reflect another place or point in time.

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Taste Bud Sensation

DAY 1. Not just a Wine region, try the Gin & Beer too! Start your day exploring a selection of over 30 cellar doors on a tour of Marlborough’s wine trail.

Omaka Aviation Heritage Centre

Explore Marlborough's Leading Visitor Attraction. . The Omaka Aviation Heritage Centre has combined a rare collection of WW1 and WW2 aircraft with creative display techniques to...

Romantic Getaway

DAY 1. Private Wine Tours. Enjoy a private tour of Marlborough’s famous wine trail and sample New Zealand’s internationally-acclaimed Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc and other...

Wairau Valley

The discovery of these significant cultural sites led to the excavation of 40 graves of Rangitāne tūpuna or ancestors. Ultimately several thousand taonga or sacred treasures and...

Tirimoana House

Tirimoana House is a luxury bed and breakfast accommodation, located in Anakiwa, near the end of the Queen Charlotte Track and immediately opposite the Link Pathway, a new...

Family Fun

. DAY 1. The Marlborough Sounds. Start your day touring the Marlborough Sounds – comprising one-fifth of New Zealand’s coastline. Visit Meretoto/Ship Cove (Captain Cook’s...

The Edwin Fox

The Edwin Fox was built in India in 1853 of teak and named after a prominent London businessman. After serving in the Crimean War, she carried goods like Indian Pale Ale and tea.