Waitaha Screen Development Incubator Participants Announced

It is with great pleasure that we announce the participants for the Waitaha Screen Development Incubator. We were thrilled with the quality of applications this year. The submitted projects were of a very high calibre, and we would like to thank all those who submitted their projects for consideration, and we’re sorry we couldn’t support more.   

We look forward to supporting these talented screen storytellers and their projects through this development programme.   

Participants will attend the Christchurch hub and online mentorship prior to the in-person pitch event to an invited industry audience at the Big Screen Symposium in Auckland on 4th and 5th of July 2025.  

The purpose of this programme is to support the development of original IP in the region and to support creators to progress their projects to be equipped to seek other partnerships and funding.  

This collaboration between Script to Screen and Te Puna Matarau helps continue to bring attention to the talent and potential within Waitaha, creating development opportunities to strengthen and support screen storytellers, their projects and the future of screen in the region. 

Congratulations to the following participants and their projects: 
(pictured left to right)

• Comrade Sergei  
  Kyan Krumdieck – Writer/Director

• Free Falling 
  Sonya Pegg – Writer
  Steve Barr – Writer/Producer
• The Possible Mind 
  Ian Sweeney – Writer/Director
• The Ring of Gyges 
  Andrew Gunn – Writer

• TULPAR 
  Rouzie Hassanova – Writer/Director
  Amanda Jenkins – Producer

• WOBBLY 
  Emma Newborn – Writer
  Rob Malloch – Producer

The Waitaha Screen Development Incubator is made possible thanks to funding from the
New Zealand Film Commission, and NZ on Air.

A Script to Screen Programme presented in partnership with Te Puna Matarau.