Humanities and Social Sciences

Cinema Studies Program

Staff Directory

Teaching Areas
CST3CIP: creative industries research (available to BCA students only) (1st semester 2008)
CST4/5CCD: cinema and cultural diversity (1st semester 2008)
CST3SED: script development (2nd semester 2008)

Research Areas
National cinemas; New Zealand cinema; scriptwriting theory, policy and practice; scriptwriting; screenplay narrative, aesthetics and formal analysis, creative project assessment.

Publications
'Amerika'. Cover Story Written By: December 2001
'Nothing little, let alone bizarre, in netball'. Dialogue N.Z. Herald, Oct. 8, 1999 Co-writer Margaret Henley.
'In the Shadow of Cowboys'. Australian Writers Guild Special Edition. Between the Sheets. Vol.1.Issue 1, 1997

Chapters
"Once Were Warriors"
"Runaway"
24 Frames: The Cinema of Australia and New Zealand, Wallflower Press (co-editors Geoff Mayer and Keith Beattie) - currently in the editing stage.

Referred Conference Papers
Global Fusion Conference, University of Austin, Texas 24-27 October, 2003.
'Hollywood Bound: Classical Narrative Structure in Peter Jackson's early films'.
'Bad Faith: Turning Perverse as the Millennium Turns'. (co-authored).
The Arts & Psyche Conference. Dundein Public Art Gallery, 26 April, 1997
'Double Take: Another look at the erotic in Jane Campion's The Piano'.

Grants/Distinctions/Awards
University of Auckland Doctoral Scholarship 1995-1998
University of Auckland Elizabeth Mary Philips Scholarship 1994

Other
New Zealand Writers Foundation President 2001-2003
National Vice President New Zealand Writers Guild, 2003

Script Consultant:
Reader/assessor Inaugural New Zealand Screenwriters Lab 2002 and 2004.
Montana Sunday Theatre 1995 (1-hour television dramas - both finalists in New Zealand Film and TV Awards 1996 Screenwriting Category).
Plain tastes - writer/director Niki Caro. TV ONE, 8 Oct. 1995
Trifecta - writers Stephen Batts/Jonathan Cullinane, director Johathan Cullinane. TV ONE, 17 Sept 1995.
TV3 Drama Series Executive Producers Fiona Copland, New Zealand on Air/TV3 (5 x 1 Hour dramas);
Staunch - director/writer Keith Hunter, co-writer Toa Fraser, TV3 Oct, 2000.
The Possum Hunter - director Mike Smith, writer James Griffin, TV3 3 Jan, 2001.
Fishskin Suit - director Peter Burger, writer Briar Grace-Smith, TV3 10 Jan, 2001.
Love Mussell - director Michael Hurst, writer Stephen Sinclair, TV3 19 July 2001.

Feature Film:
Wooden head (Florian Habicht, 2003)

Short Films:
(4 - 15 minute narrative dramas for cinematic release)
The Light - writer/director Kim Gunter.
The Road Back - writer/director Annaliese Patterson.
Testdrive - writer/director Mark Summerville.
6 hour Documentary series (not produced).
New Zealanders in the World. Producer, Frame Up Films.
Film Cover from movie ' Sure to Rise'

Feature Film Scriptwriter
Undercurrent - New Zealand Film Commission New Writers Scheme, 1995.
Ruthless - co-writer Niki Caro, producers - Essential Films/Frame Up Films.
Let the River Stand - adaptation of the novel by Vincent O'Sullivan, producers - Frame Up Films, (New Zealand Film Commission).
On Ice - feature film project, producers Richard Riddiford.

Theatre Scriptwriter
Forbidden Memories (1997) Co-writer with Douglas Wright. Adaptation of I am Elijah Thrush by James Purdy for Theatre dance/play for Douglas Wright Dance Company. Maidment Theatre, Feb 1997.
Buried Venus (1996) Dramaturge - for The Douglas Wright Dance Company, New Zealand National Tour July 1996.