Black Magic Media Pty Ltd

11/09/2025

Argh, the call of the Outback… or at least country New South Wales. Check out the wet! Great stuff. Love this event!

26/10/2024

Wonderful few days, working our backsides off producing daily updates for Golden Homes NZ Jet Boat Marathon.
As always, Robyn anchored the coverage out in the river bed in all weather conditions.
Thanks to Wayne Duffy and his team of official Patrol Boats for moving her to the various shooting locations!!
Here’s the last day’s highlight reel. Check out riverracingnz/page for all the video updates, if you’re interested.

09/05/2024

Update on World Jet Boat Champs from USA. Just over half way through the event... Four classes, Four competing countries and each country with a class lead right now!
Unlimited - Gord Humphrey CAN
A - Jose Antonio Villafuerte Vazquez
CX - Adam Wilton NZ
FX - Cameron Kirkland - USA

05/05/2024

The weather suggests this could be NZ… but the river’s just too big!

03/05/2024

This isn’t work,… it’s pleasure! A few days off in Oregon, USA to experience jet boat river racing - American style. Six kiwi teams have made the journey… time to watch some action!

27/04/2024

A great project undertaken in 2003/4.
Time flies…

This is the story of the evolution of the the jet boat thanks to the passion and drive of New Zealander Bill Hamilton who, after building a successful engine...

14/04/2024

Great team effort for Otago Rally this weekend!
Robyn Robyn Cockburn Mullan keeping things together as always!.. feeding the team and lead camera crew!
John McCredie and Matt West (with Eliot in the UK) handling the edits… and Bert, Joe, (Robyn) and their drivers, Matt Devo, Jason and Robbie for the pics.
Of course always good to have Colin Clark holding a mic. Never a dull moment and plenty of laughs all weekend.

23/10/2023

It's been a huge week providing coverage for the Golden Homes World Jet Boat Marathon. As always Robyn Cockburn Mullan anchored everything in the river bed each and every day... rain or shine. And there was plenty of the former! Thanks Robyn , and to your team on the river, Lance Kerr, Ian Armstrong (Kermit) and Blaney, who provided a top notch job finding good spots to shoot from in the river.
Special thanks also to Canadian Michael Reeve from Velocity Video Productions who joined our coverage - this was a small tight knit group that is very proud to have provided the extensive coverage we did... despite the lack of sleep!
Huge thanks to Ethan Smith at Golden Homes for providing the consistent support to make all this happen. We (River Racing NZ) are very fortunate to have such a passionate and educated supporter of this minority sport.
Here's the link to the week of highlights on EngineblockTV for those interested...
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzUH1gGk5m4W-AJwNBG6jFK7AvZKP6Bg6

12/10/2023

Tradition says Friday 13th is Black Magic Media’s birthday!
Back in 1995 when it all began we splurged $200k on a top of the range Avid edit suite and a flash new room in the office to kick things off.
Today, 28 years on, en route to begin a week covering the World Jet Boat Marathon in NZ, I’m sitting with the edit suite (hugely more powerful) on my knee.

08/09/2023

05/09/2023

It's that time of year again! Kick off for the 2023 Sunraysia Safari... love this event!