Story Camp Aotearoa

Applications for Story Camp 2020 closed in August 2020. The five day residential development lab will take place in November 2020.

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Story Camp Aotearoa is a residential feature film lab that fosters craft, voice and vision. Eight selected screenwriters or creative teams workshop their projects with exceptional international and local advisors in a rigorous five-day experience designed specifically to meet the development needs of their feature film project… read more

2020 Participants

Tom Augustine

Project -

Arsonist

Amanda Jane Robinson

Project -

Arsonist

Ghazaleh Golbakhsh

Project -

At the End of the World

Morgan Waru

Project -

At the End of the World

Peter Meteherangi Tikao Burger

Project -

Bastion Point

Nicole Hoey

Project -

Bastion Point

Hweiling Ow

Project -

Cortamus

Nacoya Anderson

Project -

Cortamus

Michelle Ang

Project -

For The Love Of It

Nahyeon Lee

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For the Love of It

Jeremiah Tauamiti

Project -

Garden City Nights

Karin Williams

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Garden City Nights

Judah Finnigan

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God People

Olivia Shanks

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God People

Asuka Sylvie

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Rebuilding Julia

Chelsea Winstanley

Project -

The Appeal

Desray Armstrong

Project -

The Appeal

2019 Advisors

Ainsley Gardiner

Director, Producer

Anahera Gildea

Poet, Writer, Teacher

Briar Grace-Smith

Writer, Director, Playwright, Script Consultant

Brita McVeigh

Story Consultant

Chris Pryor

Director, Cinematographer, Editor

Gyula Gazdag

Writer/Director

Jaycee Tanuvasa

Theatre-maker, performance artist, activist

Kath Shelper

Producer

Loren Taylor

actor, writer, director, casting director

Star Gossage

Artist

Stephen Cleary

SCRIPT EDITOR/Consultant/advisor

2019 Participants

Gillian Ashhurst

Project -

GNATS

Nadia Maxwell

Project -

GNATS

Josephine Stewart-Te Whiu

Project -

Running Barefoot

Jo Randerson

Project -

Sing It to My Face

Jess Feast

Project -

Sing It to My Face

Tusi Tamasese

Project -

Sweet Lips

Catherine Fitzgerald

Project -

Sweet Lips

Michael Bennett

Project -

Te Koha

Karin Williams

Project -

Te Koha

Jane Holland

Project -

Te Koha

Dianna Fuemana

Project -

Untitled

2018 Advisors

Jane Campion

Writer/Director

Alesia Weston

International Film Consultant

Andrew Mason

Producer

Brita McVeigh

Story Consultant

Nick Meyers

Editor

Kath Shelper

Producer

Loren Taylor

Writer/Director

Star Gossage

Artist

Tim White

Producer

2018 Participants

Ainsley Gardiner

Project -

Cousins

Briar Grace-Smith

Project -

Cousins

Reikura Kahi

Project -

Cousins

Tearepa Kahi

Project -

Cousins

Matthew Saville

Project -

Juniper

Desray Armstrong

Projects -

Juniper and Millie Lies Low

Michelle Saville 

Project -

Millie Lies Low

Eli Kent 

Project -

Millie Lies Low

Andrew Stroud

Project -

Millie Lies Low

Gaysorn Thavat

Project -

The Justice of Bunny King

Sophie Henderson

Project -

The Justice of Bunny King

Emma Slade

Project -

The Justice of Bunny King

Ginny Loane

Project -

The Justice of Bunny King

Jan Oliver Lucks

Project -

There's no I In Threesome

Alex Reed

Project -

There's no I in Threesome

Alexander Behse

Project -

There's no I in Threesome

Natalie Medlock

Project -

There's no I in Threesome

Michael Bennett

Project -

Year of the Lion

Jane Holland

Project -

Year of the Lion

Chloe Smith

Project -

Year of the Lion

2018 Sponsors

New Zealand Film Commission

2017 Advisors

Ainsley Gardiner

Producer

Bret McKenzie

Writer

Briar Grace-Smith

Writer

Brita McVeigh

Story Consultant

Gyula Gazdag

Writer/Director

Kath Shelper

Producer

Loren Taylor

Writer/Director

Michael Goldenberg

Writer/Director

2017 Participants

Lisa Cherrington

Project -

All Mixed Up

Steven McGregor

Project -

Carnage

Himiona Grace

Project -

Haka

Yamin Tun

Project -

Hong Kong Story

Alex Sutherland

Project -

Jump

Jake Mahaffy

Project -

Jump

Rochelle Bright

Project -

Petrol Head

Nic Gorman

Project -

Something To Remember Me By

Chris Dudman

Project -

We Will Not Cease

2017 Sponsors

New Zealand Film Commission

2016 Advisors

Ainsley Gardiner

Producer

Brita McVeigh

Story Consultant

Dana Rotberg

Director

Duncan Sarkies

Writer

Gyula Gazdag

Writer/Director

Jake Mahaffy

Director

Joan Tewkesbury

Writer/Director

Loren Taylor

Writer/Director

2016 Participants

Michelle Savill

Project -

Abby Goes to Space

Sophie Henderson

Project -

Abby Goes to Space

Yamin Tun

Project -

Burma Story

Max Currie

Project -

Life in Subtitles

Josephine Stewart-Te Whiu

Project -

Lucky

Armagan Ballantyne

Project -

Magma

Jackie van Beek

Project -

Magma

Alyx Duncan

Project -

The Surrogate

Lani-rain Feltham

Project -

The Surrogate

Florian Habicht

Project -

Under a Full Moon

Jesse Griffin

Project -

Wilson Dixon the Cowboy Philosopher

2016 Sponsors

New Zealand Film Commission

2015 Advisors

Briar Grace-Smith

Writer

Guillermo Arriga

Writer/Director

Gyula Gazdag

Writer/Director

Michael Goldenberg

Writer/Director

2015 Participants

Ghazaleh Golbakhsh

Project -

At the End of the World

Victor Rodger

Project -

Black Faggot

Mark Albiston

Project -

Cat Burglar

Paul Stanley Ward

Project -

Cat Burglar

Rachel House

Project -

Hui

Mitch Tawhi Thomas

Project -

Hui

Gaysorn Thavat

Project -

The Justice of Bunny King

Sophie Henderson

Project -

The Justice of Bunny King

2015 Sponsors

New Zealand Film Commission

2014 Advisors

Briar Grace-Smith

Writer

Dana Rotberg

Director

David Seidler

Writer

Michael Goldenberg

Writer/Director

2014 Participants

Nic Gorman

Project -

Human Traces

Maile Daugherty

Project -

Missu Peace

Miriam Smith

Project -

The Mountain Unseen

Gillian Ashurst

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Rattled

Kelly Kilgour

Project -

Return

Tusi Tamasese

Project -

Tila and Taema

2014 Advisors

New Zealand Film Commission

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