Short Films
In production!
Man on the Island
In collaboration with co-directors Tao Mao and Sam Gill (director of Fetch), artist Saria Howard, and producer Nicholas Henwood, Man on the Island is now in production. The film is inspired by a true story.
You can watch our pitch video, but please note it contains spoilers!
Poppy
New Zealand Film Commision (2009)
Directed by James Cunningham (director of Infection), this award-winning motion-capture animation is based on the true story of my great-grandfather who found a baby in the trenches of World War I. Poppy earned me a nomination for Best Short Screenplay at the 2009 New Zealand film and television awards.
Watch Poppy here.
Where Dad Walked
Aurora Artists and Index Films (2011)
I wrote and directed this short film with funding from friends and family. It opened for Tyrannosaur at the New Zealand International Film Festival 2011.
A hungover father (Matthew Sunderland) takes his son into the city the morning after a drunken episode to retrace his steps and see if he can find something he lost. What he ends up finding is far more important.