PROJECTS
Projects Released:
Night Raiders
Feature Film
The year is 2043. A military occupation controls disenfranchised cities in post-war North America. Children are property of the State.
Director: Danis Goulet
Reunion
Thriller
A pregnant woman returns to her recently-deceased grandparents’ old family home to spend time with her estranged mother. What begins as a tenuous reunion slowly turns terrifying.
Director: Jake Mahaffy
Cousins
Drama
Theatrical release in New Zealand April 2021
The story of Mata, raised by a cruel guardian who keeps her from her family, Makareta, the reluctant princess of her tribe, and Missy, overlooked but in the end the glue that holds them together.
Directors: Ainsley Gardiner and Briar Grace - Smith
She Shears
Documentary
In the gruelling world of competitive sheep shearing there is no women’s section. Women and men compete together.
Director: Jack Nicol
The Breaker Upperers
Comedy
Released - available on Netflix, iTunes, DVD
We’re two best friends who break up couples for cash
Directors: Madeleine Sami and jackie van Beek
Projects in Production:
Going, Going
Comedy
In Post Production
Faith, a lonely empty-nester on an uncharacteristic mission of mercy; Natalia, a duped mail - order bride and Briar, a numbed anaesthetist on an unromantic weekend each navigate their way through the alpine landscape and the contours of the human heart.
Director: Loren Taylor
Not Even
Comedy TV series
In Pre Production
Five twenty something Maori friends crash through Wellington city warring first with their cultural identities and then with each other.
Director: Ainsley Gardiner and Dana Leaming
Projects in Development:
At The End of The World
Comedy
Advanced Development
Two Iranian-Kiwi slackers who resent everything and everyone around them, decide to go on real life adventures including romancing a hot backpacker but realize that in order to become fully functional adults, they might need to do what terrifies them the most - becoming independent from each other.
Director: Ghazaleh Golbokhsh
Back the Roughie
Comedy
In Development
When a failed 30-something actress with an overactive imagination returns home to look after her estranged brother, she sees an opportunity to perform her next role, but quickly realises mortality is the least of their problems.
Director : Georgiana Plaisted
Daisy Chain
Sex Comedy
In Advanced Development
Commitment-phobe Daisy begins an affair with a married man, but when she falls in
love, she discovers he was never married; it was a lie spun by her equally commitment
phobic lover.
Director : Morgana O'Reilly and Peter Salmon
This Whole Marriage Thing
Comedy
In Advanced Development
A feisty perfumer starting an open marriage must battle jealousy over her husband’s boyfriend and her own growing feelings for the hot neighbor while asking if it’s possible to truly love more than one person.
Director : Anna Duckworth