Production Funding February Board Meeting
25 April (animated docudrama)
GFC (Gallipoli) Ltd
Producer: Matthew Metcalfe
Writer: Leanne Pooley
Director: Leanne Pooley
The Space Between
NZ-Italy co-production
Producers: James Dean, Robin Scholes (NZ) Federico Saraceni (Italy)
Writers: Ruth Borgobello, Mario Mucciarelli, Davide Giusto
Director: Ruth Borgobello
Production Funding, updating films committed since 1 July 2013 and subsequently contracted
Flickering Time Bomb (documentary)
PBK Ltd
Producer: Pietra Brettkelly
Writer: Pietra Brettkelly
Director: Pietra Brettkelly
$250,000
Once Were Warriors: Where Are They Now? (documentary)
Jump Film and Television
Producers: Robin Scholes, Claire Logan
Writers: Claire Logan, Julian Arahanga
Director: Julian Arahanga
$45,753
The Dead Lands
NZ – UK co-production
GFC (Warrior) Ltd
Producer: Matthew Metcalfe
Writer: Glenn Standring
Director: Toa Fraser
$1,550,000
Outstanding Conditional Offers for Production Funding
Born to Dance
Producers: Leanne Saunders, Daniel Story, Jill Macnab
Writers: Hone Kouka & Steve Barr
Director: Tammy Davis
Deathgasm aka Make My Horror Movie
Producers: Ant Timpson, Andrew Beattie
Writer: Jason Lei Howden
Director: Jason Lei Howden
Here at the End of the World aka Rosa
NZ-Australia co-production
Producers: Dan Hennah, Barrie Osborne, Emma Slade (NZ), Su Armstrong (Aust)
Writers: Graeme Tetley, Beatrix Christian
Director: Ray Lawrence
Jojo Rabbit
Producer: Chelsea Winstanley
Writer: Taika Waititi
Director: Taika Waititi
Kiri Te Kanawa - My Breathing is Singing (documentary)
NZ - Germany co-production
Producers:Tom Parkinson, Robert Boyd Bell
Writer: Ian Fraser
Director: Michael Seresin
The Patriarch
Producers: Robin Scholes, Timothy White, Janine Dickins
Writer: John Collee
Director: Lee Tamahori
The Straggler
Producer: Trevor Haysom
Writer: Jonathan Ogilvie
Director: Jonathan Ogilvie
Turbo Kid
NZ - Canada co-production
Producers: Ant Timpson, Tim Riley
Writers: Anouk Whissell, Francois Simard, Yoann Whissell
Directors: Anouk Whissell, Francois Simard, Yoann Whissell
Waves of Anzac Cove
Joint Documentary Fund with NZ On Air
Producers: Owen Hughes (NZ), Alan Erson, Chris Hilton (Aust)
Writer: Owen Hughes, Sam Neill
Director: Tony Krawitz
What We Do In The Shadows
Producers: Chelsea Winstanley, Taika Waititi, Emmanuel Thomas
Writer: Taika Waititi, Jemaine Clement
Director: Taika Waititi, Jemaine Clement
Advanced Development Funding – 16 January 2014
Jojo Rabbit
Logline: 10-year-old Jojo wants to be the best Nazi ever, until he meets Elsa. As their friendship grows, Jojo begins to question his beliefs and finds himself torn between his love of the forbidden and his loyalty to a lunatic.
Defender Films Ltd
Producer: Chelsea Winstanley
Writer: Taika Waititi
Director: Taika Waititi
$20,000
Early Development Funding – 15 January 2014
Christine Jeffs Project – Untitled
Logline: A comedy set in New Zealand wine country.
StellaFilm Ltd (NZ)
Producer: Robin Laing
Writer/Director: Christine Jeffs
$25,000
Early Development Funding 13 February 2014:
Black Lotus
Southern Light Films Ltd (NZ)
Producer: Timothy White
Writers: Roseanne Liang and Angeline Loo
Director: Roseanne Liang
$22,000
God of War
Logline: Legendary warrior chief Hongi Hika returns from Georgian England heavily armed, starting the ‘Musket Wars’, to avenge the death of his siblings. He slaughters his enemies, restoring honor, but with unforeseen and sometimes tragic results.
Nukuhau Productions (NZ)
Producer: Tim Coddington
Writer: Guy Hamling
Director: TBC
$17,000
Pokarekare Ana
Logline: An unexpected relationship between a Māori soldier and a young South Korean woman in wartime tells the story of how a Māori love song became a Korean folk song.
NZ Production Company TBC & EnterMedia Pictures (ROK)
NZ Lead Producer: TBC/ ROK co-producer: Sebastian Dong Hun Lee
Writer: Michael Bennett
Director: TBC
$10,000
Unspeakable Secrets of the Aro Valley
Logline: A listless young writer trying to win back his girlfriend stumbles into a labyrinthine mystery buried deep in the past of his inner-city neighbourhood.
Index Films Ltd (NZ)
Producer: TBC
Writers: Jonathan King and Danyl McLauchlan
Director: Jonathan King
$17,000
The Whole World’s Watching
Logline: One man, one day and a game that changed two nations.
WWW Movies Ltd (NZ)
Producer: Richard Thomas
Writer /Director: Alan Erson
$25,000
Professional Development Services Programme (funding for each programme to run over a three year period)
DocEdge: $90,000
NZWG: $12,000
Script to Screen: $410,000
SDGNZ: $340,000
WIFT: $228,000
For more details please see here.