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Film funding Jan-Feb 2013

Here are the latest New Zealand Film Commission funding decisions covering January and February 2013.

Board Funding – Production Financing

The Ground We Won
Victory Pictures Ltd
Producer: Miriam Smith
Writer: Miriam Smith
Director: Christopher Pryor

Kiri Te Kanawa – My Breathing is Singing

Here are the latest New Zealand Film Commission funding decisions covering January and February 2013.

Board Funding – Production Financing

The Ground We Won
Victory Pictures Ltd
Producer: Miriam Smith
Writer: Miriam Smith
Director: Christopher Pryor

Kiri Te Kanawa – My Breathing is Singing
Kaitiaki Productions Ltd
Producers: Robert Boyd-Bell, Tom Parkinson
Writer: Ian Fraser
Director: Michael Seresin

Antarctica: A Year on Ice
Antzworks Ltd
Producer: Anthony Powell
Writers: Simon Price, Anthony Powell
Director: Anthony Powell

Advanced Development Fund

The Dark Horse
Four Knights Film Ltd
Producer: Tom Hern
Co-Producer:  Jim Marbrook
Writer/Director: James Napier Robertson
$25,000

Rosa
Deep-Pond Limited
Producers: Dan Hennah, Barrie Osborne & Emma Slade
Writers: Beatrix Christian, Graeme Tetley & Dan Hennah
Director: Ray Lawrence
$3,000

Sunday
Brothers Young Pictures Ltd
Producer/Director: Michelle Joy-Lloyd
Co-Producers: Ryan Alexander Lloyd & Camille Keenan
Writers: Camille Keenan, Dustin Clare & Michelle Joy-Lloyd
$25,000

The Patriarch
Jump Film & Television Ltd
Producer: Robin Scholes & Timothy White
Writer: John Collee
Director: Lee Tamahori
$38,414

Antarctica: A Year on Ice
Antzworks Ltd
Producer/Writer/Director: Anthony Powell
$25,000

Documentary Development Fund

The Ground We Won
Deer Heart Films Ltd
Producer/Writer: Miriam Smith
Director: Christopher Pryor
$15,000

A Walk in the Park
Escapade Pictures & The Docufactory
Producers: Philippa Campbell & Justin Pemberton
Writer/Director: Justin Pemberton
$15,000

Hip Hop-eration
Inkubator Ltd
Producers: Alex Lee & Paula Jones
Writer/Director: Bryn Evans
$10,000

Early Development Fund

Respect
Ngakau Toa Ltd
Writer/Director: R?wiri Paratene
$10,000

Green on Blue
Writer: David Brechin-Smith
$10,000

Cold Storage
Off Ramp Films Ltd
Producer: Michelle Turner
Writer: Nick Ward
Director: Ellory Elkayem
$16,000

Tamada
Reservoir Films Ltd
Producers: Matthew Horrocks & Andy Sophocleous
Writer/Director: Tim Tsiklauri
$12,000

Oil
Dreadnought Ltd
Producers: Emma Slade & Dan Hennah
Writer/Director: Dan Hennah
$10,000

Chief Gary
Producer: Fiona Copland
Writers: thedownlowconcept and William Brandt
Directors: thedownlowconcept
$14,500

The Light in the Bottle
Writer/Director: Daniel Joseph Borgman
$25,000

Petrol Head
Liberty Films & Cooper’s Town Productions
Producers: Richard Fletcher, Philip Seymour Hoffman & Sara Murphy
Writer: Rochelle Bright
$15,000

God of War
Nukuhau Productions
Producer: Tim Coddington
Writer: Guy Hamling
Co-Writer: Merata Kawharu
$8,000

The Confessions of Burgess the Murderer
Kingfisher Films Ltd
Producer: Karl Zohrab
Writer: Brian Challis
$10,000

Life on the Island
Producer: Philippa Campbell
Writer/Director: Colin Hodson
$22,000

The Book of Secrets
Frolic Films Ltd
Producers: Robin Laing, Sue Thompson & Judith McCann
Writers: Robin Laing & Judith McCann
$9,000

Howard
Gibson Group
Producer: Dave Gibson
Writer: David Brechin-Smith
Director: Vanessa Alexander
$10,000

Breathing is Singing
Kaitiaki Productions Limited
Producers: Tom Parkinson & Robert Boyd-Bell
Writer: Ian Fraser
Director: Michael Seresin
$5,000

The Rogue Kimble Bent
Writer: Michael Bennett
$20,000

A Thousand Ropes
Writer/Director: Tusi Tamasese
$15,000

Seed Development Fund

Manhunt
Writer: Sophie Henderson
$10,000

Manawa
Writer: Jamie McCaskill
$10,000

Source: New Zealand Film Commission