The Festival

Anna Hickman - Director / Producer - Country of Origin: New Zealand

When she's not filming in southeast Asia, Anna teaches Media Studies at Nelson College for Girls, on the top of the South Island of New Zealand. more


Dawn Tuffery – Animator - Country of Origin: New Zealand

Dawn's creative capacity has flourished in the surrounds of Hamilton's artistic community at Waikato Institue of Technology (Wintec) where in 2003 she earned her Bachelor of Media Arts degree, majoring in Moving Image. more


Dawson Dunning – Director of Photography - Country of Origin: USA

Dawson Dunning hails from one of the most rural corners of the United States, the Custer National Forest of Montana and this is where his passion for conservation began. He holds a degree in wildlife biology from The University of Montana and is an MFA candidate in Science and Natural History Filmmaking at Montana State University. more


Director's Thanks


Festival Films 2009


For Film Makers


Gala Opening


Grant Redvers - Expedition Leader, TARA Polar Arctic Circle - Country of Origin: New Zealand

The subject of the amazing film Journey to the Heart of the Climate Machine’ (France, 2008), New Zealander Grant Redvers has recently led and completed an epic adventure, an two year ice-locked polar drift in the schooner TARA.This schooner more


Jinty MacTavish - Director - Country of Origin: New Zealand

Jinty MacTavish is a young South Island documentary maker - Lessons From a Melting Icecap is just her second film, and was produced in part requirements for a Masters in Science Communication from the University of Otago. . more


John Trinh - Director - Country of Origin: USA

John Trinh, a member of the International Documentary Association in Los Angeles (IDA), produced and directed his first documentary film entitled “Agent Orange: 30 Years Later”. more


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