Ainsley Gardiner
Historia
Ainsley Amohaere Gardiner is a film producer from New Zealand. She is of Te Whānau-ā-Apanui, Ngāti Pikiao and Ngāti Awa descent. In 1995, Gardiner completed the Avalon Film and TV production course, and went on to work with producer Larry Parr at Kahukura Productions. She began producing short films, and also co-produced a 26-part series Lovebites.
In 2003, she produced her first feature film, Kombi Nation, and co-produced Two Cars, One Night with Catherine Fitzgerald. The film, directed by Taika Waititi, became the first New Zealand short to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Short Film.
In 2004, Gardiner and actor/producer Cliff Curtis formed a film production company focused on indigenous stories, called Whenua Films. The company received start-up funding from the New Zealand Film Commission. Gardiner worked with Curtis and Waititi to produce Tama Tū, Eagle vs Shark and the highly successful Boy, which set a new record for the highest grossing New Zealand film.
In 2007, Gardiner began co-presenting Iti Pounamu, a Maori Television series showcasing New Zealand short films. In 2009 Gardiner wrote and directed Mokopuna, a short film about a part-Māori girl who struggles to embrace her roots; the film won the best short film award at the Canadian indigenous film festival Dreamspeakers.
In 2017, Gardiner joined a team of women directors and writers to create the feature film Waru, which focuses on child abuse in New Zealand.
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Executive Producer
Maka, a Tongan superfan, will do whatever it takes to get tickets to the Tonga v France Rugby World Cup game - even if that means promising to deliver a brass band for the pre-match entertainment. Only problem is, the band doesn't exist and Maka has four weeks to make one. Inspired by a true story.
Producer
Año 2043. En un futuro post-apocalíptico, en una Norteamérica controlada por el ejército, los niños son considerados propiedades estatales. Separados de sus padres, entran en escuelas militares para luchar por el régimen. Niska es una madre que lucha por salvar a su hijo de este destino.
Producer
Separated as children, three cousins with an unshakable bond confront their painful pasts and embark on an emotional journey to find each other.
Director
Separated as children, three cousins with an unshakable bond confront their painful pasts and embark on an emotional journey to find each other.
Producer
¿Quieres dejar a tu pareja pero no sabes cómo? La agencia que han montado Mel y Jen te lo puede solucionar de las más diversas maneras.
Writer
Eight Māori female directors have each contributed a sequence to this powerful and challenging feature which unfolds around the tangi of a small boy who died at the hands of his caregiver.
Director
Eight Māori female directors have each contributed a sequence to this powerful and challenging feature which unfolds around the tangi of a small boy who died at the hands of his caregiver.
Producer
This is a story about fear and fate, explored through the experience of both the victim and the perpetrator. A young woman home alone receives a call from a stranger, a young man asking her to the pictures. She declines but later finds the man with a knife standing in her dining room. He wants to have sex with her and seems confused about whether his intentions are brutal or romantic. Seeing his confusion and fear she talks him into letting her go outside to bring the washing. He holds his knife at her back – she realises she has no chance of escape. As they are walking back across the lawn to the house she is stung by a bee. She collapses. Weeping she tells him she is allergic to bees and convinces him to go inside to get vinegar from the kitchen to stop the swelling. As soon as he is out of sight she is up and running in one fluid movement. The intruder is left standing desolate on the lawn with the vinegar bottle – his fantasy unravelled. We find him at the pictures alone.
Producer
The Pa Boys is an energetic, uplifting road movie capturing the best of New Zealand's culture, beauty, talent and music, whilst exploring themes of identity, friendship and discovering your roots.
Producer
Young Vinnie and Jonah are bored on the mean streets — tagging, BMX-ing — when Jonah peer pressures Vinnie to join him in breaking and entering a house. When they find more than Christmas pressies inside, it tests mateship, moral codes and festive spirit.
Producer
Es 1984 y Michael Jackson es el rey del pop- incluso en Waihau Bay, Nueva Zelanda. Aquí conocemos a Boy, un niño de 11 años que vive en una granja con su abuela, una cabra y sus hermano pequeño Rocky (que cree que tiene poderes). Poco después de que su abuela se vaya a un entierro durante una semana, el padre de Boy, Alamein, aparece de la nada. Habiendo imaginado una versión heróica de su padre, Boy descubre la realidad: un incompetente criminal de poca monta que sólo ha vuelto para recuperar el botín que enterró antes de entrar a la cárcel. Aquí es donde la cabra aparece...
Executive Producer
When a cup of coffee is a gift from Allah.
Producer
Lily es tímida, poquita cosa, dulce y rara. Este último es el calificativo que más abunda sobre ella, la causa de que a sus espaldas todos la señalen a carcajadas. Aún así, para Lily eso no es motivo de amargura, al contrario: es feliz sabiéndose distinta. Trabaja como cajera en un restaurante de comida rápida, y ya ni escucha las burlas de sus propios compañeros. Está demasiado pendiente de una hora concreta al mediodía, porque ése es el momento en que aparece para comer Jarrod, alguien como ella, otro inadaptado. Jarrod trabaja en una tienda de videojuegos, se considera un genio y sale de una depresión para meterse en otra. Jarrod prepara una fiesta de disfraces donde cada invitado se vestirá como su animal favorito. El suyo es un águila, el de Lily un tiburón.
Musical
Sometimes first love is found in the most unlikely of places, like in the carpark outside the Te Kaha pub.
Producer
Sometimes first love is found in the most unlikely of places, like in the carpark outside the Te Kaha pub.
Producer
Six Māori Battalion soldiers camped in Italian ruins wait for night to fall. In the silence, the bros-in-arms distract themselves with jokes. A tohu (sign) brings them back to reality, and they gather to say a karakia before returning to the fray. Director Taika Waititi describes the soldiers as young men with "a special bond, strengthened by their character, their culture and each other." Shot in the rubble of the old Wellington Hospital, Tama Tū won international acclaim. Invited to over 40 international festivals, its many awards included honourable mentions at Sundance and Berlin.
Producer
A short directed by Brian Challis.
