Writing/Producing/ Directing/ Film/Television.
An independent production house in Wellington, New Zealand. We write, produce and direct films and TV – from shorts to features to TV drama, with documentaries and special projects also in our hearts. We partner with other brilliant writers and collaborators on projects and enjoy the support and culture of the vibrant film and TV making environment of Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand.
Projects
Maunga (Mountain)
SHORT FILM | 2019
On Christmas Eve in 1944, Ania, a Polish orphan refugee and Sarah, a farm girl, discover their friend Tamati, a local Māori boy, broken and weeping at an ancestral cave in the thick forest at the base of the epic volcano, Mount Taranaki in New Zealand. These three friends who have lost everything, on one night will become family. This night will define them forever.
The Last Night
SHORT FILM | 2014
In mountainous Afghanistan, UN military advisor Captain James Lesley negotiates with the powerful warlord Azeem Asoud not to massacre a village in the morning. A story inspired by true events about the futility of Western efforts in trying to change lives in Afghanistan.
Tiki Taane Mahuta
PERFORMANCE | 2017
Live music, theatre, aerial performance, contemporary dance, kapa haka, mau rakau and hip hop united in Tiki Taane Mahuta, one of New Zealand’s largest nationally-devised productions. Created by Taki Rua Artistic Director Tanemahuta Gray and set to live music from iconic musicians Tiki Taane and Shapeshifter’s Sam Trevethick.
Pacific Dreams
SHORT FILM | 2011
Pacific Dreams Rest Home, ‘that sounds nice doesn’t it, a place to rest and dream,’ says the Taxi Driver to Grace as they drive up to the front entrance. Grace soon discovers that to rest and dream are not always pleasant. For Pacific Dreams is limbo, a grey, quiet place between life and death, where residents exist but don’t live.
Life is outside, it doesn’t come in...
Polish Children of Pahiatua
DOCUMENTARY | 2015
On a sunny morning on 1 November 1944, 733 Polish orphan children on board the American troopship General Randall, awoke to the picturesque sights of Wellington. This safe harbour marked the end of a tragic exodus from Poland four years before, suffering hardship in Siberian gulags, where over 1.7million Poles perished.
