Meet the Filmmakers
Florian Habicht
Florian Habicht requires no introduction to NZIFF audiences. World premiere screenings of Woodenhead, Kaikohe Demolition, Rubbings from a Live Man, The Land of the Long White Cloud and Love Story have been NZIFF highlights. Florian is currently living in Berlin.
Pulp: a Film about Life, Death & Supermarkets
Tuesday 29 July, 9.15pm at the Embassy
Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine
For over 20 years, Emmy Award winning directors/producers Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine have jointly created critically-acclaimed documentary narratives that braid their multiple characters’ personal stories to form a larger portrait of the human experience. Their most recent film is The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden. Their work includes the award winning Something Ventured and the enormously popular Ballets Russes.
The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden
Monday 28 July, 6.15 pm at the Embassy
Wednesday 30 July, 11.00 am at Paramount
Rolf de Heer
Born in 1951 in Holland, Rolf migrated to Australia with his family in 1959. He worked at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation for seven years, then in 1977 was granted entry into Australia’s Film Television and Radio School. He has gone on to make more than a dozen films, generally low budget, and has gained substantial international recognition. His first collaboration with actor David Gulpilil, The Tracker, premiered to critical acclaim in Competition at Venice in 2002. The second, Ten Canoes, won the Special Jury Prize in the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes in 2007; and third, Charlie’s Country, won David Gulpilil the Un Certain Regard Best Actor Award at Cannes this year.
Tuesday 29 July, 6.15 pm at the Embassy
Sophie Hyde
Sophie Hyde, director of 52 Tuesdays, makes provocative, intimate drama and documentary work. Her short films and documentaries have screened widely at international film festivals and won numerous awards. She produced the feature documentary Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure, which premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival and featured soon after at NZIFF.
Friday 25 July, 4.15 pm at Paramount
Saturday 26 July, 7.45 pm at Paramount
Kitty Green
Kitty Green is a graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts. After graduating, she worked at the ABC on Art Nation and Artscape, shooting, editing and producing documentary content for broadcast. Kitty spent a year in her grandmother’s native Ukraine filming with the women of Ukraine’s topless feminist movement ‘FEMEN’. Kitty’s abduction by the KGB while filming a FEMEN protest in Belarus made headlines internationally.
Friday 25 July, 1.00 pm at Soundings Theatre, Te Papa
Sunday 27 July, 12.45 pm at Soundings Theatre, Te Papa
Alister Barry
Alister Barry has been making intelligent and provocative documentaries for more than three decades. Barry's films reflect his longtime interest in how power is exercised in a democracy, and how the decisions of the powerful impact on ordinary people's lives. (Bio provided by NZ on Screen)
Thursday 31 July, 6.15pm at Paramount
Wednesday 06 August, 11.00am at Paramount
Gavin Hipkins
Gavin Hipkins is an Auckland-based artist who works with photography and film. Over the last two decades his artistic practice has engaged discourses of conceptual art and landscape theory via a range of analogue and digital technologies, photo-installations, and artist videos. Erewhon is his first feature film. (Bio provided by Circuit)
Sunday 10 August, 1.15pm at Paramount
Gerard Johnstone
After winning the 48 Hour Film Contest twice, Gerard Johnstone used some of the prize money to make a pilot for a high school comedy. Though the project got trapped in development, TV3 went on to screen two seasons of award-winning comedy series The Jaquie Brown Diaries. In 2014 Johnstone’s first movie — Escalator-funded ghost comedy Housebound — garnered upbeat reviews after debuting at US festival SXSW. (Bio provided by NZ on Screen)
Saturday 09 August, 9.30pm at the Embassy
Jeff McDonald and Bridget Lyon
Director Jeff McDonald and producer Bridget Lyon will be present for their screenings of The Inheritance in Wellington.
Friday 08 August, 6.30pm at The Film Archive
Saturday 09 August, 4.15pm at The Film Archive
Sunday 10 August, 11.00am at The Film Archive
Jim Marbrook
The films of Jim Marbrook include feature-length documentaries on speed chess maestros (2003 award-winner Dark Horse), psychiatric hospitals (Mental Notes) and environmental issues in New Caledonia (Cap Bocage). Marbrook also lectures in screen and television at Auckland University of Technology. (Bio provided by NZ on Screen)
Tuesday 5 August, 2.00pm and 6.15pm at Soundings Theatre, Te Papa
Jonathan King
Jonathan King learnt about filmmaking through directing more than 100 music videos, including NZ Music Awards best video nominee Behold My Kool Style (made for hip hop collective Dam Native). King’s feature film debut was 2007 comedy horror hit Black Sheep, about GE sheep run amok. He followed it with an adaptation of Maurice Gee sci fi classic Under the Mountain, and 2014 sci fi drama REALITi. (Bio provided by NZ on Screen)
Thursday 31 July, 9.00pm at Paramount
Monday 04 August, 1.15pm at the Paramount
Paora Te Oti Takarangi Joseph
Paora Te Oti Takarangi Joseph, the director of Tatarakihi: The Children of Parihaka channels the spirit and poetry in the stories of Whanganui iwi, past and present, and the power of the river itself, in his film Te Awa Tupua - Voices from the River, which celebrates their deep connection.
Te Awa Tupua - Voices from the River
Sunday 27 July, 3.15pm at Soundings Theatre, Te Papa
Monday 28 July, 1.30pm at Soundings Theatre, Te Papa
Paul Wolffram
Dr Paul Wolffram is an award winning director and producer who founded Handmade Productions Aotearoa Ltd in 2006 as a medium for telling stories in a creative and collaborative way. Paul's work seeks to push the boundaries of traditional documentary exploring the way we understand the world around us. His films engage with culture, music, and people, and weave images and sound in compelling and poetic ways. (Bio provided by Handmade Productions Aotearoa)
Voices of the Land: Ngā Reo o te Whenua
Saturday 26 July, 3.00pm at Soundings Theatre, Te Papa
Tuesday 29 July, 1.30pm at Soundings Theatre, Te Papa
Sarah Cordery
Filmmaker Sarah Cordery will be present for her screenings of notes to eternity.
Saturday 09 August, 6.30pm at The Film Archive
Sunday 10 August at The Film Archive
