Sarah Hunter, Director/Creative Producer/Writer
Sarah Hunter came to the film world through print and photo
journalism, and radio - and she's always been driven by the power
of telling our own stories.
The director, producer, writer and photographer, and head of
Wellington creative media company Transmit, originally worked at
regional newspapers and at Radio Windy. This developed into
documentary-style TV and film work, "capturing people being
people": from Maori and Pacific Island youth shows, to the Trinity
Roots feature-length doco Music is Choice (which was selected for
the NZ International Film Festival 2010).
"I've never been that purist, I work across quite a few genres:
film, photography, mobile, web," says Hunter. A major career
highlight has been working as director and creative producer of the
WW1 Remembered light and sound shows (2015-2016) at Pukeahu
National War Memorial Park.
"Those two works encapsulated everything I love about
cross-platform filmmaking and collaboration with other creatives:
taking people on a journey, reaching other audiences, telling a
community's stories," she says.
"Sharing our stories in this way unites us as
a nation as well as creating an archive for future
generations."
Hunter is currently working on an interactive project with WW100
called Luck of the Draw, in which emerging creatives
respond to the introduction of compulsory conscription in NZ in
1916. Transmit has also become a pre-qualified supplier of video
services for NZ Story Creative Collective, which encourages NZ
businesses to tell their stories on video to overseas markets. She
does have a feature film concept up her sleeve, but that's another
story.
View Sarah Hunter's membership profile.