Ainsley Gardiner
História
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
The year is 2043. A military occupation controls disenfranchised cities in post-war North America. Children are property of the State. A desperate Cree woman joins an underground band of vigilantes to infiltrate a State children’s academy and get her daughter back. Night Raiders is a female-driven dystopian drama about resilience, courage and love.
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
Mel (Madeleine Sami) e Jen (Jackie van Beek), duas amigas desiludidas e desacreditadas no amor decidem criar a Breaker Upperes, uma pequena empresa que separa casais por dinheiro. Mas a amizade e o negócio entram em conflito quando Jen descobre que Mel está transando com um cliente.
Writer
Após a morte de uma criança, oito mulheres Maori são confrontadas pela culpa, orgulho e frustração, mas irão arriscar tudo pelo bem maior de sua comunidade.
Director
Após a morte de uma criança, oito mulheres Maori são confrontadas pela culpa, orgulho e frustração, mas irão arriscar tudo pelo bem maior de sua comunidade.
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
O ano é 1984 e Michael Jackson é rei até em Waihau Bay, Nova Zelândia. Aqui encontramos Boy, um garoto de 11 anos, que vive numa fazenda com sua Avó, uma cabra e seu irmão mais novo, Rocky, que acha que tem poderes mágicos. Pouco depois de sua Avó sair por uma semana, o Pai de Boy, Alamein, aparece do nada. Tendo imaginado uma versão heroica de seu Pai durante sua ausência, Boy fica cara a cara com a versão real de um bandido incompetente que voltou para encontrar um pacote de dinheiro que havia enterrado anos atrás. É aí onde entra a cabra.
Executive Producer
When a cup of coffee is a gift from Allah.
Producer
Lily é extremamente tímida e trabalha como caixa em uma rede de fast-food. Um belo dia ela ganha de Jarrod um convite para uma festa anual conhecida como "Venha Vestido como seu Animal Preferido". Lá, ambos descobrem que têm muita coisa em comum.
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.
