Production Funding May Board Meeting
Atomic Falafel (arthouse – political satire)
Proposed NZ – German – Israel co-production
Producers: Matthew Metcalfe, Chilik Michaeli (Israel) and Andro Steinborn (Germany)
Writer / Director: Dror Shaul
Beyond the Known World (drama)
Proposed NZ – India - co-production
Producers: Kristian Eek, Matthew Horrocks and Gaurav Dhingra (India)
Writer: Dianne Taylor
Director: Pan Nalin
Poi E (docu-drama)
Producers: Alexander Behse, Reikura Kahi and Te Arepa Kahi
Writer / Director: Te Arepa Kahi
Production Funding - updating films that have recently contracted.
25 April (animated docudrama)
GFC (Gallipoli) Ltd
Producer: Matthew Metcalfe
Writer / Director: Leanne Pooley
$1,950,000
Turbo Kid (action thriller)
NZ - Canada co-production
Producers: Ant Timpson and Tim Riley
Writers / Directors: Anouk Whissell, Francois Simard and Yoann Whissell
$392,356
Waves of Anzac Cove (documentary)
Joint Documentary Fund with NZ On Air
Producers: Owen Hughes, Alan Erson (Australia)
Writers: Owen Hughes and Sam Neill
Director: Peter Butt
$141,000
What We Do In The Shadows (mockumentary)
Producers: Chelsea Winstanley, Taika Waititi, Emanuel Michael
Writers / Directors: Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement
$250,000
Outstanding Conditional Offers for Production Funding
It is our policy to maintain a list of outstanding conditional offers for production funding.
The current list is:
Born to Dance (drama / hip-hop dance)
Producers: Leanne Saunders, Daniel Story and Jill Macnab
Writers: Hone Kouka, Steve Barr and Casey Whelan
Director: Tammy Davis
Deathgasm (a Make My Horror Movie – contracting)
Producers: Sarah Wensley, Andrew Beattie and Morgan Leigh Stewart
Executive Producer: Ant Timpson
Writer / Director: Jason Lei Howden
Jojo Rabbit (drama adaptation)
Producer: Chelsea Winstanley
Writer / Director: Taika Waititi
Kiri Te Kanawa - My Breathing is Singing (documentary)
Proposed NZ - Germany co-production
Producers: Tom Parkinson and Robert Boyd-Bell
Writer: Ian Fraser
Director: Michael Seresin
Rosa aka Here at the End of the World (drama)
Proposed NZ-Australia co-production
Producers: Dan Hennah, Barrie Osborne, Emma Slade (NZ) and Su Armstrong (Aust)
Writers: Graeme Tetley and Beatrix Christian
Director: Ray Lawrence
The Patriarch (drama adaptation)
Producers: Robin Scholes and Janine Dickins
Writer: John Collee
Director: Lee Tamahori
The Straggler (drama)
Producer: Trevor Haysom
Writer / Director: Jonathan Ogilvie
Board Development Funding - May
Beyond the Known World (drama)
Proposed NZ – India co-production
Producers: Kristian Eek, Matthew Horrocks (NZ) and Gaurav Dhingra (India)
Writer: Dianne Taylor
Director: Pan Nalin
ADF (CEO Delegation) $20,000
Born to Dance (drama / hip-hop dance)
Producers: Leanne Saunders, Daniel Story and Jill Macnab
Writers: Hone Kouka, Steve Barr and Casey Whelan
Director: Tammy Davis
ADF $30,000
Advanced Development Fund – 26 February 2014
Amchitka (drama)
NZ – Canada co-production
Logline: A boatload of hippies and activists attempting to prevent a nuclear test capture the imagination of the world and create the germ of the movement now known as Greenpeace.
StellaFilm Ltd
Producer: Robin Laing
Writer: Aubrey Nealon
Director: Christine Jeffs
$20,000
In The Roar (drama)
Logline: An unconventional love story set on a remote sheep station between an antisocial teenager, an out of place farmer and a four-year old girl.
Sabertooth Film Ltd
Producer: Aaron Watson
Writer / Director: Jackie van Beek
$15,000
Early Development Fund – 20 March 2014
Call Me Carmen (biographical drama)
Logline: An exuberant, cheeky, life-affirming swinging-sixties biopic about one of Australasia's most charismatic, outrageous and scandalous public figures.
Producers: Vincent Burke, Debra Kelleher (NZ) and Walt Missingham (Australia)
Writer: Michael Bennett (NZ)
Director: Dee McLaughlan (Australia)
$25,000
Lovebooks (character drama / comedy)
Logline: A world-weary British novelist escapes to rural New Zealand for inspiration, but is transformed by something far more potent - the secret of his true family.
The Gibson Group Ltd
Producer: Bevin Linkhorn and Steve Barr
Writer: Brendan Donovan
Director: TBC
$20,000
Pasha Patel: A journey to me (comedy)
Logline: Washed-up, phony cheerleader, Pasha Patel, seeks stardom but ends up finding fame in an unexpected way.
Super Fumes Ltd
Producers: Carthew Neal and Leanne Saunders
Writers: Madeleine Sami, Thomas Sainsbury and Carthew Neal
Director: TBC
$21,500
Pushing It (comedy drama)
Logline: The incredible true story of Sonia Manaena - a middle aged mother of three who chose powerlifting over aqua jogging, and at 51 became the strongest woman in the world.
Semi-Professional Pictures
Producer: Luke Sharpe
Writer / Director: Gerard Johnstone
$25,000
Early Development Fund – 10 April 2014
Chester Grindle (family / comedy)
Logline: After being missed out every year by Santa Claus, Chester Grindle grows up to become a zillionaire, hell bent on taking over management of the holiday season.
Centron Pictures
Producer: Kevin Stevens
Writers: Kevin Stevens and Jason Stutter
Director: Jason Stutter
$25,000
The Guinea Pig Club (biographical drama)
Logline: A renegade Kiwi surgeon realises he must do much more than repair the bodies of the injured airmen. He must restore their souls and give them a will to live.
Crimbil Equities Ltd
Producer: Tim Sanders
Writer: Mike Riddell
$25,000
You And Me (romantic comedy)
Logline: After a decade of self-imposed exile in New York, charismatic train wreck come romance writer, Marjorie Bennett, returns home to New Zealand to settle her estranged mother’s estate.
Kilgour Development Ltd
Producers: Kelly Kilgour and Tim White
Writer: Casey Whelan
Director: TBC
$20,000
Early Development Fund – 9 May 2014
Maria Take a Bow
Logline: Returning home for the weekend, Maria bumps into an old friend still living in his student flat with fellow unemployed graduates, and is drawn into the humour and tragedy of their aimless lives.
Producer: Nadia Maxwell
Writers: Martin Sagadin and Alayne Dick
Director: Martin Sagadin
$10,000
The Art of Recovery (documentary)
Logline: Amongst the apocalyptic rubble of post-quake Christchurch a battle is brewing as artists and entrepreneurs fight for a place in the government's new city plan.
Producer / Director: Peter Young
Writers: Peter Young and Alex Reed
$5,000
Sheila (documentary)
Logline: Consistently ahead of her times, this extraordinary woman has made a unique contribution to both science and the arts over 60 years.
Producers / Writers: Hugh MacDonald and Christine Dann
Director: Hugh MacDonald
$5,000
Wulf (historical drama)
Logline: In the midst of New Zealand's colonisation, two worlds collide when a Catholic priest is drawn from Europe into the mysterious, antipodean world of Maori Chief Te Rauparaha.
Producer: Robin Scholes and Co-Producer Brad Haami
Writer: Michael Bennett
Director: Sam Peacocke
$25,000
Feature Film Finishing Grant – May 2014
Te Awa Tupua (documentary)
Producer/Director: Paora Joseph
$7,070
Nga Reo o te Whenua (documentary)
Producer: Catherine Fitzgerald
Director: Paul Wolffram
$25,000