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Story Camp

Applications for Story Camp open once a year around June/July and close around August. The five day residential development lab takes place in Nov/Dec.

APPLICATION INFO

Story Camp Aotearoa is a residential feature film workshop 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

2019 Participants

Gillian Ashhurst

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GNATS

Nadia Maxwell

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GNATS

Gerard Johnstone

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Pushing It

Luke Sharpe

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Pushing It

Josephine Stewart-Te Whiu

Project -

Running Barefoot

Jo Randerson

Project -

Sing It to My Face

Jess Feast

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Sing It to My Face

Tusi Tamasese

Project -

Sweet Lips

Catherine Fitzgerald

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Sweet Lips

Michael Bennett

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Te Koha

Karin Williams

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Te Koha

Jane Holland

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Te Koha

Dianna Fuemana

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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

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Cousins

Briar Grace-Smith

Project -

Cousins

Reikura Kahi

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Cousins

Tearepa Kahi

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Cousins

Matthew Saville

Project -

Juniper

Desray Armstrong

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Juniper and Millie Lies Low

Michelle Saville 

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Millie Lies Low

Eli Kent 

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Millie Lies Low

Andrew Stroud

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Millie Lies Low

Gaysorn Thavat

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The Justice of Bunny King

Sophie Henderson

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The Justice of Bunny King

Emma Slade

Project -

The Justice of Bunny King

Ginny Loane

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The Justice of Bunny King

Jan Oliver Lucks

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There's no I In Threesome

Alex Reed

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There's no I in Threesome

Alexander Behse

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There's no I in Threesome

Natalie Medlock

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There's no I in Threesome

Michael Bennett

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Year of the Lion

Jane Holland

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Year of the Lion

Chloe Smith

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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

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Jump

Jake Mahaffy

Project -

Jump

Rochelle Bright

Project -

Petrol Head

Nic Gorman

Project -

Something To Remember Me By

Chris Dudman

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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

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Abby Goes to Space

Sophie Henderson

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Abby Goes to Space

Yamin Tun

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Burma Story

Max Currie

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Life in Subtitles

Josephine Stewart-Te Whiu

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Lucky

Armagan Ballantyne

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Magma

Jackie van Beek

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Magma

Alyx Duncan

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The Surrogate

Lani-rain Feltham

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The Surrogate

Florian Habicht

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Under a Full Moon

Jesse Griffin

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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

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Black Faggot

Mark Albiston

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Cat Burglar

Paul Stanley Ward

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Cat Burglar

Rachel House

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Hui

Mitch Tawhi Thomas

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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

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Missu Peace

Miriam Smith

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The Mountain Unseen

Gillian Ashurst

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Rattled

Kelly Kilgour

Project -

Return

Tusi Tamasese

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Tila and Taema

2014 Advisors

New Zealand Film Commission

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