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Introducing the filmmakers selected for Story Camp Aotearoa 2025
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Applications for Story Camp Aotearoa opened Tuesday 20th August 2024 and closed 1 PM, Monday 23rd September 2024. The residential development lab took place 24-28 February 2025
Story Camp Aotearoa is a residential feature film lab that fosters craft, voice and vision.Selected screenwriters or creative teams workshop their projects with exceptional international and local advisors in a rigorous four-day experience designed specifically to meet the development needs of their feature film project.
At the heart of the lab are in-depth story sessions between the advisors and the selected filmmakers. The tailored developmental approach of Story Camp can also include project-based group workshops; workshopping with actors; packaging and casting strategy; strengthening and clarifying the directors’ vision; directing performance; and making good decisions together under pressure. Advisors are chosen to match with the project requirements and will include those with writing craft, production, business and creative expertise.
You may view past advisors alongside the participants below, including revolutionary Mexican screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga (Amores Perros, 21 Grams, Babel), renowned director and writer Jane Campion (Top of the Lake, The Piano), producer and director Ainsley Gardiner (Boy, The Breaker Upperers, Waru), filmmaker & Artistic Director of the Sundance Directors’ Lab Gyula Gazdag, Hollywood writer & longstanding Sundance mentor Michael Goldenberg (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix), playwright, screenwriter and director Briar Grace-Smith (The Strength of Water, Waru), EP and producer Andrew Mason (The Matrix trilogy, Tomorrow When The War Began), writer/actor Bret McKenzie (Flight of the Conchords), dramaturg and story consultant Brita McVeigh, Academy Award and BAFTA winning screenwriter David Seidler (The Kings Speech), Australian producer Kath Shelper (Samson & Delilah, Tender), actor/writer/director Loren Taylor (Eagle vs Shark), and legendary US screenwriter Joan Tewkesbury (McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Thieves Like Us and Nashville).
DREAM WORK FACILIATOR, FILMMAKER
WRITER, DIRECTOR, PLAYWRIGHT, SCRIPT CONSULTANT
Writer, director
actor, writer, director and producer
Artist, Writer
Actor, director, writer
Playwright, Poet
Author
Dancer, choreographer, Movement coach
Screenwriter, Actor
Artist
Poet
Writer, Director
Actor, Director
Script Consultant
Screen Writer, Editor
Writer
Festival Director
Choreographer
Producer
Director, Writer, Actor
Artist
Casting Director, Actor
Writer, Director
Producer, Director, Writer
Poet, Author, Teacher
Producer, Director
Writer, Director
Story Consultant
ACTOR, WRITER, DIRECTOR
Festival Director (NZIFF)
Choreographer
Producer
Director, Writer, Actor
Artist
Director, Producer
Poet, Writer, Teacher
Writer, Director, Playwright, Script Consultant
Story Consultant
Director, Cinematographer, Editor
Writer/Director
Theatre-maker, performance artist, activist
Producer
actor, writer, director, casting director
Artist
SCRIPT EDITOR/Consultant/advisor
Writer/Director
International Film Consultant
Producer
Story Consultant
Editor
Producer
Writer/Director
Artist
Producer
Producer
Writer
Writer
Story Consultant
Writer/Director
Producer
Writer/Director
Writer/Director
Producer
Story Consultant
Director
Writer
Writer/Director
Director
Writer/Director
Writer/Director
Writer
Writer/Director
Writer/Director
Writer/Director
Writer
Director
Writer
Writer/Director
APPLICATIONS CLOSE
1 PM, Monday 23rd September 2024
APPLICATIONS CLOSE
1 PM, Monday 23rd September 2024