Loading Docs Wins Best NZ Online Documentary Series 17 May 2016
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Loading Docs Wins Best NZ Online Documentary Series at the Doc Edge Awards 2016
Loading Docs, the online documentary initiative, won the prestigious NZ On Air Best NZ Online Documentary or Web Series at the Doc Edge Awards 2016. The Doc Edge Gala Awards Night 2016 was held at The Roxy Cinema on the 12 May. Each year Doc Edge celebrates excellence and achievement by presenting local and international awards in various categories.
Loading Doc's Producer Julia Parnell who attended the event said, "We are thrilled to receive this award on behalf of all the film-makers involved in making Loading Docs a success. To get this recognition in our third year of rolling out the Loading Docs program is proof of the outstanding talent in New Zealand, and the desire from audiences to see quality content."
Loading Docs is a unique New Zealand documentary initiative established in 2014 to captivate and inspire audiences as well as develop and promote New Zealand filmmaking talent. 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.
Through a competitive selection process, Loading Docs selects ten short documentary proposals to create 3-minute shorts, 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.
As in previous years, the 2016 Loading Docs shorts are 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.
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.
The theme for this years'
selection is 'change.' This years' 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.
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.
Mister Sunshine
Dir: Eldon
Booth
Prod: Alex Lovell
Location: Auckland
Larry
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.
ends
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