Ōtepoti / Dunedin
City Winner
The Fountain of Youth by Mayodaze
Runner Up
A Few Things by Midnight Sunburn
Finalists
Congratulations to the 2024 city finalists.
- 48 hours of Musical Theatre - It's About Time
- Blackbird Pie - A Bad time in real time
- Bus of the Undead - Knight Court
- Concerned and Confused - Monster Monster
- Curb Side Entertainment - Beware of the Dog
- Discombobulated Pistachios - Targeted
- Gleet Street Riot - Defective Noir
- Gold Rushes - The Reality of Love
- Lezz Go - Match
- Magnificent B - Skiddles' Run
Award Winners
Wift Best Female / Gender Diverse Filmmaker
Mayodaze - Jade Sheppard
Nominees:
- Blackbird Pie - Lillia Mcnatty
- Midnight Sunburn - Georgia Wales/Zyanya Jackson
- Sesame - Eva Brunel
- SOHS1 - Erin Turner/Jessamine Daumann
City Manager Award - Most Thought-Provoking Film
Midnight Sunburn - A Few Things
Nominees:
- Gold Rushes - The Reality of Love
- Mayodaze - The Fountain of Youth
- PEAKE PRODUCTIONS - Emily
- the castle st couch burners - The Goat
Best Director
Mayodaze - The Fountain of Youth
Nominees:
- Bus of the Undead - Knight Court
- Gold Rushes - The Reality of Love
- Midnight Sunburn - A Few Things
- Magnificent B - Skiddles' Run
Best School
SOHS 1 - Ghost Summoning Vlog #23
Nominees:
- SOHS 2 - Without Knowledge
Best Performer
Gold Rushes - Amalia Remus
Nominees:
- Concerned and Confused - Ryan McAnally
- Foreign Worlds - Tao Damichey-Siacchi
- Mayodaze - Harrison Greer
- Magnificent B - Ewan Jones
Best Script
Mayodaze - The Fountain of Youth
Nominees:
- Bus of the Undead - Knight Court
- Gold Rushes - The Reality of Love
- Magnificent B - Skiddles' Run
- Midnight Sunburn - A Few Things
Best Cinematography
Midnight Sunburn - A Few Things
Nominees:
- Gold Rushes - The Reality of Love
- Magnificent B - Skiddles' Run
- Mayodaze - The Fountain of Youth
Best Production Design
Midnight Sunburn - A Few Things
Nominees:
- Bus of the Undead - Knight Court
- Gold Rushes - The Reality of Love
- T-Block Productions - Of Ash And Flesh
Best Animation
Discombobulated Pistachios - Targeted
Nominees:
- Blackbird Pie - A Bad time in real time
Best Editing
Midnight Sunburn - A Few Things
Nominees:
- Curb Side Entertainment - Beware of the Dog
- Mayodaze - The Fountain of Youth
Best Sound Design
Discombobulated Pistachios - Targeted
Nominees:
- Blackbird Pie - A Bad time in real time
- Bus of the Undead - Knight Court
- Gold Rushes - The Reality of Love
- Midnight Sunburn - A Few Things
Best Original Score/Song
48 hours of Musical Theatre - It's About Time
Nominees:
- Magnificent B - Skiddles' Run
- Mayodaze - The Fountain of Youth
- Midnight Sunburn - A Few Things
- the castle st couch burners - The Goat
Incredibly Strange
the castle st couch burners - The Goat
Nominees:
- Concerned and Confused - Monster Monster 1
- Gold Rushes - The Reality of Love
- Midnight Sunburn - A Few Things
Best Disqualified Film
Highview- Misinformation
Best Use of Genre
Mayodaze - The Fountain of Youth
Nominees:
- Bus of the Undead - Knight Court
- Knox C Productions - Box For Next Door
- the castle st couch burners - The Goat
Best Use of Warning
Discombobulated Pistachios - Targeted
Nominees:
- Bus of the Undead - Knight Court
- Gold Rushes - The Reality of Love
- Mayodaze - The Fountain of Youth
Best Use of Traveller
SOHS 2 - Without Knowledge
Nominees:
- Andromeda Productions - The Gastronaut
- Discombobulated Pistachios - Targeted
- Midnight Sunburn - A Few Things
Best Use of Match Cut
Lezz Go - Match
Nominees:
- Discombobulated Pistachios - Targeted
- PEAKE PRODUCTIONS - Emily
- T-Block Productions - Of Ash And Flesh
Best Use of Exit
Midnight Sunburn - A Few Things
Nominees:
- Discombobulated Pistachios - Targeted
- Gold Rushes - The Reality of Love
- Lezz Go - Match
- Notmad - Atomic
City Manager
Your Ōtepoti / Dunedin City Manager and is Miguel Weaver.
Miguel Weaver
Miguel is your friendly Otago/Southland area manager. With a wealth of short film, music video, promotional video, and feature films credits, 12 years of running festivals, and over a decade in the circus world, he has a broad range of expertise to call on.
Contacts
Email Miguel
Call Miguel - 027 694 2401
Judges
Jaimee Poipoi
Jaimee (Ngāti Kahungunu/Ngā Puni) has 10+ years of film and television experience working on local projects like Red, White and Brass (2023) to international tent pole films like the next Avatar movies (2022 & 2024).
Once described as a creative swiss-army knife, she created/directed the RNZ Investigative comedy series ConspiraSeries (2022), co-created/hosted the 70s-themed RNZ comedy podcast, The Art of Entertaining (2022), and has produced and directed many films through her company Electric Shoelace Productions, that have screened in national and international festivals – most recently the animated short films Who Sneezed and Star Sailors (as Director), and the NZFC Fresh Short film Hey, Brainy Man (as Producer) which won the 2023 NZIFF Patrons Award for Best Short Film
In 2022 she was awarded a special grant in the NZFC Gender Scholarship, recognising the work of Emerging Wahine Producers, and is 1 of 6 Directors in the 2023 DEGANZ Emerging Women in Filmmakers Incubator. Naturally drawn to unique and interesting stories, Jaimee aims to use her wide range of skills to create content with a focus on diverse people, through a comedic lens.
Oana Jones
Oana Jones is a Director, Producer and Science Communicator. Her work includes VR and Fulldome, animated shorts, documentary filmmaking and science communication. Her work has been featured in Planetariums, galleries, virtual reality, augmented reality and even onto buildings for the Dunedin Midwinter Carnival.
She opened and managed the Perpetual Guardian Planetarium in Dunedin’s Otago Museum for almost seven years and in that time has developed seven planetarium films, contributed to four funded digital exhibitions and created dozens of museum programmes. Currently she’s a lecturer in Game Art and Animation at the University of Canterbury and her research explores immersive film and exhibition design and the intersection between digital and physical interaction.
Bex Rowe
Bex’ first introduction to Film and Television was was in 2002 studying screenwriting in Melbourne. Twenty two years on Bex’ work history spans over several sectors for both Domestic and International projects under the roles of Production, Post Production, Casting, Script Coordinating, Assistant Directing, Publicity & Art Department.
Some local projects include One Winter, The Rehearsal & Wellington Paranormal as well as International productions such as; King Kong, Avatar, Spartacus & The Power of the Dog.
Since returning to her hometown Dunedin in 2019, Bex is an active Film Otago Southland Board Member, consults for DCC around crew capacity, infrastructure and studio potential and is a regular contributor as Dunedin representative for the NZ Tech Guild magazine.
Stefan Roesch
Stefan is the Head of Film Dunedin and Co-Manager of Film Otago Southland. He has nearly 20 years of experience in market research and is a leading expert on film tourism. In 2003, he emigrated to New Zealand to embark on the world’s first PhD in Film Tourism at the University of Otago. He has consulted various destinations on film tourism projects around the world, including the likes of VisitBritain on the movie PADDINGTON and Tourism Northern Ireland on GAME OF THRONES.
To date, Stefan has produced three award-winning short films – two in Germany and one in New Zealand. In October 2023, he was awarded the designation of Certified Film Commissioner (CFC) and has recently been elected on the Board of Directors at the Association of Film Commissioners International (AFCI).
Guy Pigden
Like many in the screen industry, Guy Pigden's career divides into two different strands. He writes and directs his own movies; he also makes corporate videos and is a cameraman for hire. Pigden's first feature was ambitious horror comedy I Survived a Zombie Holocaust (2014), which won $250,000 funding from low budget filmmaking scheme Escalator. The movie had festival success overseas, as did his 2016 short film No Caller ID. After directing WatchMe web series Harrow, Pigden went on to sell two feature-length projects to Amazon Prime in quick succession: his long in gestation romance Older, and comedy Immi the Vegan.