PRODUCTION FUNDING
Rosa
Deep Pond Ltd
Producers: Emma Slade, Barrie Osborne, Dan Hennah
Director: Ray Lawrence
Writers: Graeme Tetley, Beatrix Christian
Proposed NZ/Aus co-production
POST-PRODUCTION FUNDING
What We Do in the Shadows
Shadow Pictures Ltd
Producer: Chelsea Winstanley
Directors: Taika Waititi, Jemaine Clement
Writers: Taika Waititi, Jemaine Clement
BOARD DEVELOPMENT
25 April
General Film Corporation Ltd
Producer: Matthew Metcalfe
Writer/Director: Leanne Pooley
$100,000
EARLY DEVELOPMENT FUND
Projects funded at the EDF meeting on 14 October 2013:
The Ark of Kindness
Logline: There is light even in the darkest places. A young New Zealander goes a long way to repay a kindness.
Ark Of Kindness Productions Ltd (NZ)
Producers: Costa Botes (NZ) Writer/Director: Costa Botes
$20,000
This project is a co-production with South Africa
The Light in the Bottle
Logline: Jess is 15, her mother is in a coma, her dad is numb, and her best friend is in love with her. She keeps everything at a safe distance until her mum’s friend Lisa arrives unexpectedly and forces her to look life in the eyes.
Escapade Pictures Ltd (NZ) & Toolbox Films (DK)
Producers: Philippa Campbell (NZ) & Signe Jensen (DK)
Writers: Daniel Joseph Borgman & Johan Knatrupp Jensen
Director: Daniel Joseph Borgman
$20,000
Maea: A Thousand Ropes
Logline: An aging midwife prepares his beloved, naïve 15-year old daughter for the birth of her first child. He must release his little girl, to welcome her back as a mother.
Blueskin Films Ltd
Producer: Catherine Fitzgerald
Writer/Director: Tusi Tamasese
$27,500
Photos of Loving Summer
Logline: Come rain, come shine, loving is never easy.
Isola Productions Ltd
Producer: Rachel Jean
Writer: Tim Balme
Director: Katie Wolfe
$15,000
The Rehearsal
Logline: What happens when a group of drama students ransack a family’s intimate scandal as material for their devised play?
T.H.E. Film Ltd
Producers: Trevor Haysom (NZ) & Bridget Ikin (AUS)
Writer: Emily Perkins
Director: Alison Maclean
$25,000
Projects funded at the EDF meeting on 26 November 2013:
Burn Out
Kingfisher Films Ltd
Producer: Karl Zohrab
Writer: Matthew Horrocks
Director: TBC
$12,500
Hello Again
Logline: The story of a grieving family and a troubled boy, travelling the unmarked road of life and death, to discover what lies between.
Kura Productions Ltd
Producer: Quinton Hita
Writer/Director: Paora Te Oti Takarangi Joseph
$5,000
Sam Kelly Project – Untitled
Logline: When you're in, you want out.
POP Film Ltd
Producer: Vicky Pope
Writer/Director: Sam Kelly
$23,600
Wounded
Logline: When an isolated woman in colonial New Zealand is confronted by a wounded Māori rebel, she is challenged on whether to hand him over to the authorities, or to save his life, a decision that will propel her life into chaos.
T.H.E. Film Ltd
Producer: Trevor Haysom
Writer: Brad Haami
Director: TBC
$14,800
Grace Notes
Logline: Grace, 82, leads a life of dull but pleasant conformity, until a young-at-heart Max, 85, reminds her of what it’s like to be alive.
The Gibson Group Ltd
Producers: Bevin Linkhorn & Steve Barr
Writer: Juanita Deeley
Director: TBC
$12,500
The Book of Fame
Logline: August, 1905, and the New Zealand rugby team comprised of “rough colonials” heads over to England to win unexpected fame. They return to New Zealand, changed forever.
Jump Film & Television Ltd
Producer: Robin Scholes
Writer: Gavin Strawhan
Director: TBC
$50,000
SEED DEVELOPMENT FUND
Projects funded at the SDF meeting on 26 November 2013:
Camp of One
Logline: Douglas, an irresponsible 40-something would-be rocker, has to grow up the hard way when he takes part in a camp for troubled teenagers.
Writer: Gavin McGibbon
$10,000
Rutherford's Apprentice
Logline: In the world of quantum physics, love can be both dead and alive at the same time.
Writer: Gillian Ashurst
$10,000
Viet Kieu
Logline: Kiwi Vietnamese girl, Demi, travels to Vietnam to understand her father’s mysterious death and connect with her culture, but she is confronted by her cousin’s jealousy of her western upbringing.
Writer: Sally Tran
$10,000