Briar Grace-Smith is of Ngā Puhi descent, and is an award-winning writer of short fiction, stage plays and feature films.  Her plays include Ngā Pou Wāhine, Purapurawhetū and When Sun and Moon Collide. She…

Sophie Henderson is a New Zealand screenwriter, theatre-maker and actor. Her first screenplay, Fantail, in which she also starred, won over audiences at home and overseas. Fantail premiered at the…

Park Chan-wook is a Korean film director, screenwriter, producer and former film critic who has emerged as one of the most significant talents in cinema in recent years. He is best known…

Peter Mullan is an award-winning Scottish actor, writer and director who is known both for his hard-hitting performances in front of the camera, and the powerful execution of his stories…

Tusi Tamasese was born in Samoa and raised in the villages of Vaimoso and Mulifanua.  At the age of eighteen he moved to New Zealand and attended the University of Waikato,…

Gaylene Preston has been celebrated as one of New Zealand's leading filmmakers, having made some of the most enduring popular classics of New Zealand cinema. Gaylene is a storyteller whose…

One of the world’s most brilliant and audacious cinematographers, Christopher Doyle has undeniably created some of the most beautiful and innovative cinema imagery of all time. He left his native…

Philippa Campbell produced Jane Campion’s acclaimed television mini-series Top of the Lake, winner of two Golden Globe Awards and an Emmy, among other accolades. Her feature films include Cannes selection Rain, comedy…

Carthew Neal graduated from the Ingenious Media and National Film and Television School’s Creative Producing Course covering six royalty based entertainment industries and championed by Sir Richard Branson. Carthew has fourteen…

Director Gillian Armstrong has been making award-winning films and documentaries since the seventies including MY BRILLIANT CAREER, OSCAR AND LUCINDA, CHARLOTTE GREY and LITTLE WOMEN. Gillian was born in Melbourne.…