Desray Armstrong

Desray Armstrong

História

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

Filmes

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.
Voltando para Casa no Escuro
Traffic Patrol Officer
Um passeio em família sofre uma reviravolta sinistra quando o professor Alan Hoaganraad, sua esposa e dois enteados se deparam com uma dupla de vagabundos sem escrúpulos em busca de vingança.
Voltando para Casa no Escuro
Producer
Um passeio em família sofre uma reviravolta sinistra quando o professor Alan Hoaganraad, sua esposa e dois enteados se deparam com uma dupla de vagabundos sem escrúpulos em busca de vingança.
Merata: Como Minha Mãe Descolonizou a Tela
Post Production Supervisor
Na década de 1970, Merata Mita (1942-2010) rompeu barreiras de raça, classe e gênero para se tornar a primeira mulher maori a escrever e dirigir um longa-metragem. Ela se tornou uma das cineastas mais conhecidas da Nova Zelândia e uma voz poderosa para os povos indígenas de todo o mundo. Neste filme, o filho mais novo de Merata, Hepi, cria um retrato íntimo de sua falecida mãe. Com base em imagens do trabalho da diretora, bem como em entrevistas com ela antes de pegar uma câmera, Hepi captura Merata como cineasta, mãe, esposa e mentora.
Máquinas Mortais
Production Coordinator
Anos depois da "Guerra dos Sessenta Minutos", a Terra está destruída e para sobreviver as cidades se movem em rodas gigantes, conhecidas como Cidades Tração, e lutam com outras para conseguir mais recursos naturais. Quando Londres se envolve em um ataque, Tom é lançado para fora da cidade junto com uma fora-da-lei e os dois juntos precisam lutar para sobreviver e ainda enfrentar uma ameaça que coloca a vida no planeta em risco.
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.
A Luz Entre Oceanos
Production Coordinator
Na Austrália, depois da Primeira Guerra Mundial, um homem trabalha em um farol com a sua esposa. Um dia, eles encontram dentro de um barco um cadáver e um bebê de dois meses de idade. O casal pensa inicialmente em avisar a polícia, mas depois decidem que este foi um presente de Deus, e passam a cuidar da criança. Muito tempo mais tarde, quando fazem uma viagem, eles descobrem que tomaram a decisão errada.
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.