PROJECTS
Projects Released:
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Not Even
TV series
Season 1 Completed and currently available on Sky/Sky Open/Neon in NZ
Season 2 on Sky / Sky Open / Neon
Five twenty something Maori friends crash through Wellington city warring first with their cultural identities and then with each other.
Director: Ainsley Gardiner and Dana Leaming
The Moon is Upside Down
Feature film - Drama laced with Comedy
Released in NZ cinemas in May 2024
Faith, a lonely empty-nester on an uncharacteristic mission of mercy; Natalia, a duped mail - order bride and Briar, a numbed anaesthetist on an unromantic weekend each navigate their way through the alpine landscape and the contours of the human heart.
Director: Loren Taylor
Cousins
Feature film - Drama
Theatrical release in New Zealand April 2021
The story of Mata, raised by a cruel guardian who keeps her from her family, Makareta, the reluctant princess of her tribe, and Missy, overlooked but in the end the glue that holds them together.
Directors: Ainsley Gardiner and Briar Grace - Smith
Projects in Production:
Caterpillar
Feature Film - Comedy / Drama
Currently in Post Production with release early 2026
When Dementia shows up unannounced and flips life on its head, three imperfect generations of a matriarchy are forced to unite if they want to survive.
Writer / Director : Chelsie Preston - Crayford
Projects in Development:
Goodbye Banu
Feature film - Comedy
Advanced Development
Two Iranian-Kiwi slackers who resent everything and everyone around them, decide to go on real life adventures including romancing a hot backpacker but realize that in order to become fully functional adults, they might need to do what terrifies them the most - becoming independent from each other.
Director: Ghazaleh Golbokhsh
This Whole Marriage Thing
Feature film - Comedy
In Advanced Development
A feisty perfumer starting an open marriage must battle jealousy over her husband’s boyfriend and her own growing feelings for the hot neighbor while asking if it’s possible to truly love more than one person.
Director : Anna Duckworth
