
PROJECTS
Projects Released:
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