Loading Docs has named the 10 short docos on the theme of diversity selected for this year’s edition, and which begin crowdfunding today.
Each documentary is required to crowdfund $2000 towards their production budget in order to receive an additional $4000 from the Loading Docs initiative and a post-production package provided by Toybox and Post Production Sound.
This year’s selections include Tim Worrall’s He Kotuku Rerenga Rua, produced by Aaron Smart. Worrall and Smart previously made 2014 Loading Docs title Kainga.
Coffin Club comes from Briar March and producer Kim Harrop. March’s There Once Was An Island had a good festival run in 2010, collecting over a dozen awards. Julie Zhu’s East Meets East is produced by DEGNZ’s Marketing & Events Coordinator Tema Pua. Welcome to Graft is directed by Ursula Williams, whose short The King took the Audience Award in last year’s NZ’s Best competition.
The full line-up of Loading Docs 2017 selections is:
#Losing
Dir: Stjohn Milgrew
Co-Dir: Damian Golfinopoulos
Prod: James Kerr
Asian Men Talk About Sex
Dir: Chye-Ling Huang
Prod: Kelly Gilbride
Co-Prod: Ruby Reihana-Wilson
Coffin Club
Dir: Briar March
Prod: Kim Harrop
East Meets East
Dir/Co Prod: Julie Zhu
Prod: Tema Pua
He Awa Mutunga Kore – A Takatāpui Journey (pictured, top)
Dir: Kathleen Winter
Producer: Jaimee Poipoi
Te Reo Māori advisor: Beatrice Joblin
He Kotuku Rerenga Rua
Dir: Tim Worrall
Prod: Aaron Smart
Te Reo advisor: Kotuku Tibble
Luckie Strike
Dir: Melissa Nickerson
Prod: Craig Gainsborough
My Dog Ajax
Dir: Michael Weatherall
Prod: Cecilia Shand
Union
Dir: Jerry Rock-Archer
Prod: Joshua Rollo
Welcome to Graft
Dir: Ursula Williams
Info on the selections is on the Loading Docs site. Links to all the crowdfunding campaigns are in this week’s Beggar’s Banquet.
