Tom Hern is a New Zealand producer best known for his recent feature films THE DARK HORSE (2014) starring Cliff Curtis, and EVERYTHING WE LOVED (2014), directed by Max Currie.
Starting his career in the screen industry as an actor on various TV productions, Tom eventually followed his yearnings to tell stories that he believed in, and in 2007 co-founded production company Six String Pictures with his old acting buddy (turned writer-director) James Napier Robertson. Together the pair independently developed, financed and produced their debut feature, the micro-budget, whodunnit thriller I’M NOT HARRY JENSON. INHJ was released theatrically in New Zealand to strong reviews, off the back of sell out screenings at the New Zealand International Film Festival, and went on to play at a number of other festivals.
In 2010 Tom co-founded Four Knights Films Ltd, again with Napier Robertson, and Australasian entrepreneurs Tim and Sasha Wood. That year, Tom produced a short film entitled LAMBS, written and directed by Sam Kelly, which was invited to screen at a number of prestigious international film festivals including Clermont Ferrand, Berlin, Melbourne and Raindance, and won the Madman Grand Jury Prize and the Peoples Choice Award at the 2012 New Zealand International Film Festival.
2013 ad 2014 have been huge for Tom and Four Knights with the release of two feature films. The micro-budget arthouse drama EVERYTHING WE LOVED, written and directed by Max Currie, and THE DARK HORSE, a drama inspired by the colourful life of bipolar-suffering Maori speed-chess-genius Genesis Potini. The film was directed by James Napier Robertson and stars Cliff Curtis and James Rolleston.
Tom is a passionate, creative-producer who loves cinema.
Session info: Secrets of The Dark Horse with Tom Hern and James Napier Robertson
Session info: In Conversation with Alix Madigan
