Catalyst He Kauahi supports New Zealand filmmakers to progress their talents to the next stage and make exceptional, high end narrative short films that will ignite the flame and be the catalyst for change in their career.
Three teams have been offered funding in the April 2019 round.
The Meek
Writer: Gillian Ashurst
Director: Gillian Ashurst
Producer: Catherine Fitzgerald, Nadia Maxwell
Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the Earth.
Funding amount: $90,000 grant towards their short film and $10,000 towards development of their feature concept.
Impossible
Writer: Gabriel Reid
Director: Gabriel Reid
Producer: Craig Gainsborough-Waring
Executive Producer: William McKegg
A young Sikh DJ and a mature star of the stage discover affairs of the heart make kindred spirits of us all.
Funding amount: $90,000 grant towards their short film and $10,000 towards development of their feature concept.
Green
Writer: Rachel Ross
Director: Rachel Ross
Producer: Morgan Leigh Stewart, Samantha Dutton
An estranged father and daughter, both with newly diagnosed life altering illnesses, smoke marijuana together for the first time and it becomes healing in more ways than one.
Funding amount: $75,000 grant towards their short film and $10,000 towards development of their feature concept.