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Loading Docs 2016: Change
FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE
Loading Docs: the documentary initiative that produces short films and big talent.
Loading Docs, the online documentary initiative, is back for a third year to launch another ten cutting-edge, 3-minute shorts that tell true stories of transformation, growth, adversity and hope. The theme for this year’s selection is ‘change’.
From more submissions than ever before, a panel of industry experts have selected 10 incredible new projects. This year’s Loading Docs shorts will provide viewers with the opportunity to: meet the millionaire who became a shoeshine man, face 'the end of the world’ with two teen poets, enter into medieval combat, discover how friendship changes when your best mate becomes a woman and much more. Some films share personal stories of dramatic change, others address major social, political and environmental changes, and all have the potential to change the way viewers think and feel.
After a fantastic year in 2015 the previous Loading Docs shorts are still spreading far and wide. The collections from 2014 and 2015 have been viewed over 1,000,000 times across all platforms – some international outlets include CNN Great Big Story, The Atlantic, The Guardian, National Geographic, The Daily Mail and The Japan Times. These little stories are packing a big punch with a long tail.
As in previous years, the 2016 Loading Docs shorts are supported by NZ On Air and the New Zealand Film Commission. They will be launched online on the Loading Docs website and on TVNZ OnDemand. Stay tuned for more information about the upcoming crowd funding campaigns and for launch details.
See previous year’s short documentaries here.
The 2016 LOADING
DOCS: CHANGE shorts
Blood
Sugar
Dir: Joe Hitchcock
Prod: Morgan Leigh
Stewart
Location: Auckland
Four-year-old Dahlia leads
us in her bittersweet world of blood, needles and
sugar.
Bludgeon
Dir/Prod: Ryan Heron,
Andy Deere
Location: Taranaki
Knight-in-waiting
Martainn must battle his inner demons if he hopes to achieve
his dream of becoming a champion in his beloved sport of
full contact medieval combat.
Imagine the World is
Ending
Dir/Prod: Doug Dillaman, Brendan
Withy
Location: Auckland
Can two schoolboys change the
world with a poem?
Same but
Different
Dir: Louise Leitch
Prod: Sue
Ruffell
Location: Christchurch
Best mates, Byron and
Neil, must re-calibrate their friendship when Bryon
transitions from a man to a woman.
Street
Smart
Dir: Leigh Minarapa
Prod: Nathaniel
Lees
Location: Wellington
Being visible in a world
that doesn’t want to see you.
The Impeccable
Larry Woods Dir: Eldon Booth
Prod: Alex
Lovell
Location: AucklandLarry Woods is a shoeshine man
on a mission to peddle goodwill and cheer; a far cry from
his hedonistic days as a member of Auckland’s wealthy
elite.
Water for Gold
Dir: Rose
Archer
Prod: Sandy Wijetunge
Location: Auckland
An
animated conversation with leading legal professor, Jane
Kelsey, on how international trade law is leading us to
trade water for gold.
How Mr and Mrs Gock Saved
the Kumara
Dir: Felicity Morgan-Rhind
Prod:
Arani Cuthbert
Location: Auckland
When two young
Chinese refugees fall in love in 1955 their passion for each
other and the land changes the way New Zealand farms kumara,
our iconic indigenous crop.
Aka’ou: Tatatau
in the Cook Islands Dir: Robert George
Prod:
Lucy Cole
Location: Rarotonga
Against the odds an
Englishman living with Cystic Fibrosis who has devoted his
life to learning the ancient Polynesian art of tatatau
(tattoo) and now he must find the right apprentice to
continue the tradition, before it's too late.
The
Colourist
Dir: Greg Wood, Peter Alsop
Prod:
Declan Cahill
Location: Auckland
A photo colourist
from the 1950s picks up the cotton wool one more time to
showcase the wonderful aesthetic of a lost art.
About Loading Docs
Loading Docs is a unique New Zealand documentary initiative established in 2014 that aims to captivate and inspire audiences as well as develop and promote New Zealand filmmaking talent.
Through a competitive selection process, Loading Docs selects ten short documentary proposals, which are then supported from development through to distribution. Working with local and international mentors, Loading Docs filmmakers expand their skills in a range of areas including story development, outreach, publicity and marketing and distribution.
Loading Docs is a Notable Pictures initiative, produced by Julia Parnell and Anna Jackson with the support of NZ On Air’s Digital Media Fund and the New Zealand Film Commission.
For more information visit Loading
Docs.
2014 and 2015 Loading Docs shorts are available
to watch on TVNZ OnDemand here.
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