The Following Award Winners Will Be Onsite ...
Winner: Best NZ Film 2007
Katie McSweeney is a young filmmaker from Dunedin who is passionate about New Zealand’s natural environment. Bluffed, which was made as part of a postgraduate diploma, is her first major project.
Katie McSweeney
>>onsite Session 4 – Saturday 7 p.m.
Why we judged Bluffed the winner: comments from the Jury.
“Bluffed is compelling viewing for anyone interested in not only oysters but the future of new Zealand’s sustainable fishing industry” – Ross Stevenson, Jury Chairperson
“an issue that definitely has had an effect on a NZ community – in the widest sense (fisherman, businesses, scientist, history) it also allows you to look at an issue and value the "lay person" – Murray Black’s expertise and weigh it up against the supposed experts - NIWA; it also identifies the problem issue within the Foveaux Straight ecological system.” –Bill MacIntyre, Jurist
“a very engaging film about a key environmental issue in New Zealand, with wider implications for the sustainability of our fishing resources. This is a very global concern as well.” –Dr Terry Kelly, Jurist
“an excellent exploration of an iconic New Zealand product, the Bluff oyster which highlight why anyone, oyster lover or not, needs to be concerned about its future” –Dr Caroline Miller, Jurist
David Bradbury
A Hard Rain
David Bradbury :: Australia :: 2007 :: 77 mins
Winner: Best International Feature Film 2007
>> onsite Session 4 :: Saturday 7 p.m.
David Bradbury is one of Australia’s best known and most successful documentary
filmmakers. His films have been shown on all the major Australian commercial and public broadcast networks as well as overseas. He has won countless international film festival prizes and been the winner of five AFI awards and two Academy Award nominations (Frontline, which profiled war cameraman Neil Davis, and Chile: Hasta Cuando?, on the brutal military dictatorship of General Pinochet).
While political parties and sections of the media continue to promote nuclear power as an attractive alternative to fossil fuels, Bradbury’s latest film, A Hard Rain, explores ‘the other side’ of the debate - the real issues and grim truth.
Traversing five countries – China, France, UK, Japan and Australia, A Hard Rain exposes the hidden agendas behind the latest push for Australia to go nuclear and presents a compelling—and frightening—argument against allowing this to happen.
Louise Davidson
A Moment of Clarity….
Sarah Cowhey & Louise Davidson :: New Zealand :: 2007 :: 24 mins
[Director/Producer Onsite]
Winner: Place Best NZ Film 2007 – Second Place
Louise Davidson
>> onsite Session 5 :: Sunday 2 p.m.
Louise has grown up traveling the world but calls NZ home. Having studied Ecology, Design Studies and Film & Media at Otago University, Louise constantly strives to show the world to others through fresh eyes, with help from an understanding of the power of Film.
Jinty MacTavish
Geckos Rock
Jinty MacTavish & Julia Kelbling :: New Zealand :: 2007 :: 24 mins
[Director Onsite – Sponsored by Forest & Bird Manawatu Branch]
Jinty MacTavish
>>onsite Session 4 – Saturday 7 p.m.
Pip Walls
Prints of Darkness
Mark Orton & Pip Walls :: New Zealand :: 2007 :: 24 mins
>> onsite Session 3 :: Saturday 2 p.m.
Hailing from Hawera in Taranaki, 26 year old Pip has a background in film and media with a focus on the technical aspects of filmmaking. Invaluable in deciphering mumbo jumbo.
While working in the U.K. and dreaming of a return to New Zealand Pip discovered the Post Graduate Diploma course and applied, not really expecting to get accepted. How things can change your life, Pip now calls Dunedin her home, indeed she told a reporter recently that she is from Dunedin.
Just crazy enough to be conned into making a film with Mark, Pip has taken to the task with gusto and really loves the story that they are telling. Pip is responsible for many of the artistic flourishes that the film features.
