Seed 2018
Judges Panel
Karol Griffiths is a development consultant, producer, script editor, writing coach and mentor with 20+ years of industry experience. Career highlights include working with the Coen Brothers, Steven Spielberg, Seth Macfarlane, Pamela Fryman, Steven Levitan, James Burrows, August Wilson, Lynda La Plante and many of the major studios and Indie production companies. Karol’s book, The Art of Script Editing: A Practical Guide to Script Development, is used as a textbook for writing and film programs and Universities around the world.
Karol Griffiths
Karol Griffiths is a development consultant, producer, script editor, writing coach and mentor with 20+ years of industry experience. Career highlights include working with the Coen Brothers, Steven Spielberg, Seth Macfarlane, Pamela Fryman, Steven Levitan, James Burrows, August Wilson, Lynda La Plante and many of the major studios and Indie production companies. Karol’s book, The Art of Script Editing: A Practical Guide to Script Development, is used as a textbook for writing and film programs and Universities around the world.
NZonScreen Memorial
Nancy Brunning
NZonScreen Memorial
Hineani Melbourne
Seed & Seed Advanced Results Announcement Date:
May 5, 2018
Grant Recipients
Seed Recipients:
When Kenzie’s runaway mother turns up dead, the teenager discovers that the best way to lay someone to rest is to bring them to life.
Madeleine Sheahan
Seven Stars
When Kenzie’s runaway mother turns up dead, the teenager discovers that the best way to lay someone to rest is to bring them to life.
A widow leaves things unsaid to her children, but it takes a runaway Chinese boy and the upcoming unveiling of her late husband for her to finally find strength to speak her truth.
Sima Urale
Solo
A widow leaves things unsaid to her children, but it takes a runaway Chinese boy and the upcoming unveiling of her late husband for her to finally find strength to speak her truth.
1990s in the idyllic 'Garden City' of New Zealand. Samasoni, a young Samoan man tries his best to keep his family together, as his older brother falls deeper and deeper into a world of racial violence, threatening to blow their family apart.
Jeremiah Tauamiti
Garden City Nights
1990s in the idyllic 'Garden City' of New Zealand. Samasoni, a young Samoan man tries his best to keep his family together, as his older brother falls deeper and deeper into a world of racial violence, threatening to blow their family apart.
In 1977 a blunt, open and honest drag queen becomes famous when she accidentally lets slip - on nationwide television that there are gays in NZs Parliament and loses everything.
Mika Haka
Carmen
In 1977 a blunt, open and honest drag queen becomes famous when she accidentally lets slip - on nationwide television that there are gays in NZs Parliament and loses everything.
Josephine Stewart
Ace
Rachel O'Neill
Underground Fires
Diane Young
Mr Wellington
Steve Barr & Daryl Belbin
The Geometry of Souls
Seed Advanced Recipients:
The true story of how a humble New Zealand farmer, forced to the Western Front as punishment for his Conscientious Objection, is rehabilitated by a British Medical Officer and saved from execution for desertion.
We Will Not Cease
The true story of how a humble New Zealand farmer, forced to the Western Front as punishment for his Conscientious Objection, is rehabilitated by a British Medical Officer and saved from execution for desertion.
A disenchanted, world-famous British actor, embroiled in gossip and marital controversy, secretly flees to a small seaside village in New Zealand to avoid the attention, only to be forced into a local community performance of Look Back In Anger to save his career.
The Letter
A disenchanted, world-famous British actor, embroiled in gossip and marital controversy, secretly flees to a small seaside village in New Zealand to avoid the attention, only to be forced into a local community performance of Look Back In Anger to save his career.
Rack
Bad Aunty
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