Desray Armstrong

Desray Armstrong

略歴

Desray Armstrong is an independent producer with a diverse slate of credits. From 2007-2011, Desray and producer/director Chelsea Winstanley ran New Zealand production company StanStrong with a focus on creating compelling, conscious and informative content with a Maori worldview. In recent years, Desray has built up a mass of physical production experience, predominantly in feature film.

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Desray Armstrong

参加作品

The Mountain
Producer
Explores the journey of three young people as they seek solace under the watchful gaze of the Taranaki mountain and companionship in the spirit of adventure.
Bad Behaviour
Producer
Lucy, a former child actor, seeks enlightenment at a retreat led by spiritual leader Elon while she navigates her close yet turbulent relationship with her stunt-performer daughter, Dylan.
Millie Lies Low
Producer
A panic attack causes Millie to miss her flight to New York. Everyone thinks she’s made it though, thanks to her fake Instagram posts from the “Big Apple”. A tragicomic hunt for a new ticket ensues, as she attempts to beat the clock, her fears and the truth.
Juniper
Producer
When a self-destructive teenager is suspended from school and asked to look after his feisty alcoholic grandmother as a punishment, the crazy time they spend together turns his life around.
Coming Home in the Dark
Traffic Patrol Officer
A school teacher is forced to confront a brutal act from his past when a pair of ruthless drifters takes him and his family on a nightmare road-trip.
Coming Home in the Dark
Producer
A school teacher is forced to confront a brutal act from his past when a pair of ruthless drifters takes him and his family on a nightmare road-trip.
Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen
Post Production Supervisor
A documentary portrait of the pioneering indigenous filmmaker and activist Merata Mita and an intimate tribute from a son about his mother that delves into the life of the first woman from an Indigenous Nation to solely direct a film anywhere in the world. Known as the grandmother of Indigenous cinema, Merata’s independent political documentaries of the 1970s and 80s highlighted injustices for Māori people and often divided the country. Mita was fearless in her life, her activism and her art. Chronicling the director’s journey to decolonize the film and television screens of New Zealand and the world, the film documents her work, her early struggles with her family and her drive for social justice that often proved personally dangerous.
移動都市/モータル・エンジン
Production Coordinator
たった60分で文明を荒廃させた最終戦争後の世界。残された人類は空や海、そして地を這う車輪の上に移動型の都市で創り出し、他の小さな都市を"捕食"することで資源や労働力を奪い生活している。"都市が都市を喰う"、弱肉強食の世界へと姿を変えたこの地上は、巨大移動都市"ロンドン"によって支配されようとしていた。他の都市を次々に飲み込み成長を続けるロンドンを前に、小さな都市と人々が逃げるようにして絶望的な日々を送る中、一人の少女が反撃へと動き出す。
Bats
Producer
A hazy night in Wellington is lit up with the pulsating colors and sounds of party people exploring their youth and freedom.
Stray
Producer
In a cold and remote landscape, two strangers struggle to repair their broken pasts. A young man is on parole after serving time for attempting to murder the man who killed his girlfriend in a hit and run. A woman is released from a psychiatric facility far from her homeland. These two damaged strangers cross paths in the mountains in winter and fall into a complex intimate relationship, putting to the test their capacity to trust and heal.
Pork Pie
Second Assistant Production Coordinator
A trio of accidental outlaws travel the length of New Zealand, protesting conformity and chasing lost love, with a posse of cops and a media frenzy in pursuit.
光をくれた人
Production Coordinator
1918年、トム(マイケル・ファスベンダー)は戦争から帰還するものの、心は深く傷ついていた。その後彼は、灯台守の仕事に就く。彼はオーストラリア西部の岬からおよそ160キロメートルも先の孤島ヤヌス島に渡り、3か月の間一人で生活する。そして正式に採用されたトムは契約のために町に戻り、土地の名士の娘イザベル(アリシア・ヴィキャンデル)と出会う。
Field Punishment No.1
Production Manager
In 1916, the New Zealand Government secretly shipped 14 of the country's most outspoken conscientious objectors to the Western Front in an attempt to convert, silence, or quite possibly kill them. This is their story.
Ellen Is Leaving
Producer
On the eve of departing overseas Ellen makes the fateful decision to gift her boyfriend a new girlfriend.
Saving Grace - Te Whakarauora Tangata
Production Manager
Saving Grace - Te Whakarauora Tangata is the final work of director Merata Mita, who passed away suddenly before the film could be completed. The film addresses some of the deepest and most distressing issues Māori communities face, and shows how extraordinary creative solutions are being provided by Māori communities themselves. Mita asks Maori men to front up to some grim realities by talking openly and honestly about the violence and abuse that has plagued their communities for many years. The film is a personal response to this violence, with Mita making a case for a return to an older model of Maori manhood, when men were the ones who sweetly sang the children to sleep. “Merata intended the documentary to count in ways that mattered deeply to her and to change perceptions of abuse and violence by using themes of responsibility, redemption, revitalisation, forgiveness and, most of all, love.” - Carol Hirschfeld, Māori Television.
Ebony Society
Moana
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.
Ways to See
Producer
Amaia lives with her deeply depressed mother in an inner-city apartment. With no family or friends close by, she desperately seeks out her absent father. Believing that mystical powers and a mysterious woman can reconnect them, Amaia goes to extreme lengths to win her attention and friendship. When the woman visits the family home, she becomes a familiar and welcome playmate for Amaia but also carries the hard truth of her father’s absence. The young mother and daughter cannot pretend any longer and will have to decide if they can continue living with each other.