Seed 2024
Seed is for emerging and unproduced writers and Seed Advanced is for writers with more than 90 minutes of credited and produced scripted work.
Judges Panel
Sav Rodgers is a filmmaker and writer from Kansas City. His creative work centres on the queer experience through a comedic or personal lens. Director of Chasing Amy (2022). Sav is the Founder and Executive Director of the Transgender Film Center, assisting trans creators to bring finished films to audiences around the world. Serving on the Board of Directors for the Transgender Film Center, Film Society KC, and Advisory Council of the Vidiots Foundation. And a programmer at numerous film festivals, including Slamdance, Outfest, and the Victoria Texas Independent Film Festival.
Sav Rodgers
Sav Rodgers is a filmmaker and writer from Kansas City. His creative work centres on the queer experience through a comedic or personal lens. Director of Chasing Amy (2022). Sav is the Founder and Executive Director of the Transgender Film Center, assisting trans creators to bring finished films to audiences around the world. Serving on the Board of Directors for the Transgender Film Center, Film Society KC, and Advisory Council of the Vidiots Foundation. And a programmer at numerous film festivals, including Slamdance, Outfest, and the Victoria Texas Independent Film Festival.
Kathryn is an award-winning screenwriter & playwright and script consultant. She won Best Script Drama at the 2021 NZTV Awards (with Riwia Brown) for "The Tender Trap" and was recently shortlisted for the 2022 NZ Adam Play Award. Kathryn has significant television credits - most recently “The Brokenwood Mysteries”, “Under The Vines”, Script Editor on TVNZ limited series "Black Hands", “Fresh Eggs”, and “The Cul de Sac.” She is currently on the writing team for Series 3 "My Life is Murder" and Series 2 "Bird's Eye View".
Kathryn Burnett
Kathryn is an award-winning screenwriter & playwright and script consultant. She won Best Script Drama at the 2021 NZTV Awards (with Riwia Brown) for "The Tender Trap" and was recently shortlisted for the 2022 NZ Adam Play Award. Kathryn has significant television credits - most recently “The Brokenwood Mysteries”, “Under The Vines”, Script Editor on TVNZ limited series "Black Hands", “Fresh Eggs”, and “The Cul de Sac.” She is currently on the writing team for Series 3 "My Life is Murder" and Series 2 "Bird's Eye View".
Mukilan Thangamani is a Writer/Director who was born in India, raised in Botswana and New Zealand, and now lives in Australia. He credits this nomadic upbringing for motivating his love of cultural diversity and passion for wanting to see it reflected more in media. He's done assignment work for the New Zealand Film Commission, won multiple writing contests, and was also featured on The Tracking Board’s annual ‘Young & Hungry List’.
Mukilan Thangamani
Mukilan Thangamani is a Writer/Director who was born in India, raised in Botswana and New Zealand, and now lives in Australia. He credits this nomadic upbringing for motivating his love of cultural diversity and passion for wanting to see it reflected more in media. He's done assignment work for the New Zealand Film Commission, won multiple writing contests, and was also featured on The Tracking Board’s annual ‘Young & Hungry List’.
Cher Zimmerer is a professional creative and story creator with an MA in literature.She has worked for a German film funding company, a local broadcaster, NBCUniversal and the last six years with Constantin Film, where she was responsible for the development of TV and streaming projects. She worked on high-end series like PERFUME, WE CHILDREN FROM BAHNHOF ZOO, RESIDENTEVIL, SMILLA`S SENSE OF SNOW and THOSE ABOUT TO DIE among many others.
Cher Zimmerer
Cher Zimmerer is a professional creative and story creator with an MA in literature.She has worked for a German film funding company, a local broadcaster, NBCUniversal and the last six years with Constantin Film, where she was responsible for the development of TV and streaming projects. She worked on high-end series like PERFUME, WE CHILDREN FROM BAHNHOF ZOO, RESIDENTEVIL, SMILLA`S SENSE OF SNOW and THOSE ABOUT TO DIE among many others.
Seed & Seed Advanced Results Announcement Date:
November 8, 2024
Grant Recipients
Seed Recipients:
A blue-eyed Indian Prince pretends to be White to start a new life with his family in 1925 Australia, only to be forced to accept the heritage he abandoned and resist the colonisation he abetted.
Pulkit Arora
The Last Prince
A blue-eyed Indian Prince pretends to be White to start a new life with his family in 1925 Australia, only to be forced to accept the heritage he abandoned and resist the colonisation he abetted.
An elderly woman struggling with dementia becomes the target of a shapeshifter disguised as her son. Can she overcome her confusion to expel the creature from her life? Does she even want to?
Francesca Mackenzie
Changeling
An elderly woman struggling with dementia becomes the target of a shapeshifter disguised as her son. Can she overcome her confusion to expel the creature from her life? Does she even want to?
The story of an extraordinary and enduring love between two women that spans two very different eras and fifty years divided.
Kate Langdon
The Shape of Us
The story of an extraordinary and enduring love between two women that spans two very different eras and fifty years divided.
Unable to accept that the alumni at their high school reunion doesn't worship them like they did twenty years ago, an ex-king and queen bee decide to burn down the building with everyone inside it.
Matt Butler
How to Peak in High School
Unable to accept that the alumni at their high school reunion doesn't worship them like they did twenty years ago, an ex-king and queen bee decide to burn down the building with everyone inside it.
Annie, a lonely stoner craving distraction, accidentally hooks up with a vampire. Abandoning her everyday life, Annie dives teeth first into a world where the things you love don't have to die.
Alayne Dick
I don't Sleep these Days
Annie, a lonely stoner craving distraction, accidentally hooks up with a vampire. Abandoning her everyday life, Annie dives teeth first into a world where the things you love don't have to die.
When Red Riding Hood discovers SHE'S the werewolf, she must choose whether to kill the boy her vengeful Grandma has lured to their trailer, or fight for his life.
Michele Powles
Wolfed
When Red Riding Hood discovers SHE'S the werewolf, she must choose whether to kill the boy her vengeful Grandma has lured to their trailer, or fight for his life.
In the mid-90s, a freewheeling ten-year-old navigates a new world of bullies and other dangerous creatures when her family relocates to Australia to care for her terminally ill grandmother.
Jayde Hudson
Nevermind
In the mid-90s, a freewheeling ten-year-old navigates a new world of bullies and other dangerous creatures when her family relocates to Australia to care for her terminally ill grandmother.
Seed Advanced Recipients:
A real time electric love story in which NZ celebrity chefs Peter Hudson and David Halls attempt to save their careers and their relationship through the greatest live Christmas special the 1980s has ever seen.
Hudson and Halls
A real time electric love story in which NZ celebrity chefs Peter Hudson and David Halls attempt to save their careers and their relationship through the greatest live Christmas special the 1980s has ever seen.
A real time electric love story in which NZ celebrity chefs Peter Hudson and David Halls attempt to save their careers and their relationship through the greatest live Christmas special the 1980s has ever seen.
Hudson and Halls
A real time electric love story in which NZ celebrity chefs Peter Hudson and David Halls attempt to save their careers and their relationship through the greatest live Christmas special the 1980s has ever seen.
Come Along Oliver Moody is a famous and enigmatic New Zealand Novel. A young woman goes looking for an answer to a question that the book has never answered.
Come Along, Oliver Moody
Come Along Oliver Moody is a famous and enigmatic New Zealand Novel. A young woman goes looking for an answer to a question that the book has never answered.
Imogen supports her mother's battle with cancer, but proximity raises the spectre of Imogen's past, the on-line grooming from age twelve, her fight to defend herself, and the pain of her mother's betrayal.
No Matter Our Wreckage
Imogen supports her mother's battle with cancer, but proximity raises the spectre of Imogen's past, the on-line grooming from age twelve, her fight to defend herself, and the pain of her mother's betrayal.
When Dawn turns 50 she hits perimenopause and starts to feel invisible. Then she literally becomes invisible. Now, Dawn must figure out how to be seen before she disappears completely.
The Pause
When Dawn turns 50 she hits perimenopause and starts to feel invisible. Then she literally becomes invisible. Now, Dawn must figure out how to be seen before she disappears completely.
When the diplomatic space station "Emissary" crashes to Earth, an inexperienced NASA engineer must piece together whether it was human sabotage, or extraterrestrial first contact, before the world erupts into chaos.
Reentry
When the diplomatic space station "Emissary" crashes to Earth, an inexperienced NASA engineer must piece together whether it was human sabotage, or extraterrestrial first contact, before the world erupts into chaos.
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