WIFT NZ AWARDS 2016 WINNERS
WIFT NZ is pleased to announce the recipients for the seven award categories of the WIFT NZ 2016 Awards, held tonight in the Grand Tearoom of the Heritage Hotel, Auckland.
South Pacific Pictures Award for Achievement in Film
presented by Chief Executive Officer Kelly Martin
> Leanne Pooley - for Beyond the Edge
Queenstown Camera Company Entrepreneurship Award
presented by Managing Director Brett Mills
> Bettina Hollings - for founding Imagination Television, one of New Zealand's
top independent production companies, consistently producing popular,
rating television for networks in New Zealand, Australia, the United Kingdom
and Asia.
Images & Sound Award for Success in Television
presented by Producer Samantha Jukes
> Philly de Lacey - CEO & Executive Producer - for Screentime New Zealand's
drama production broadcast between 1 July 2013 and 30 June 2015
including How to Murder Your Wife, Venus and Mars and Monster at Mangatiti.
Professional Lighting Services Award for Unsung Heroine of the NZ Screen Industry
presented by General Manager Ruthe Kenderdine
> Leonne Kassler - Manager, Film Equipment rental company - for going the
extra mile every day at The Film Equipment Company and Portsmouth
Rentals and providing a role model for women working in a male dominated
area of the industry.
Fulcrum Media Finance Woman to Watch Award
presented by Sarah Cull, representing Managing Director Sharon Menzies
> Desray Armstrong - Producer - for strategic transitioning from short films to
features with a solid bedrock of experience and a high level of professionalism.
Te Puni K?kiri Te Reo M?ori Champion Award
presented by Executive Director of Ng? Aho Whakaari, Hineani Melbourne on
behalf of Te Puni K?kiri
> Hinewehi Mohi - for her significant contribution to the increased use and
knowledge of te reo M?ori me ng? Tikanga, for her promotion of te reo M?ori
in all her work - as a singer, a producer and presenter and as an advocate for
the disabled.
Great Southern Film & Television Award for Outstanding Contribution to the New Zealand Screen Industry
presented by Chief Executive Officer Phil Smith
> Jane Wrightson - Chief Executive of New Zealand on Air - for advocacy,
common sense, integrity and leadership that resounds across the industry.
The WIFT NZ Awards were established in 2004 to recognize, celebrate and encourage the achievements of women in film, television and digital media.
105 nominations were received over seven categories.
Finalists were decided by a panel of Christina Milligan (Chair), Kelly Martin, Robin Laing. Fiona Milburn, Hineani Melbourne, Vicki Jackways, Jill Macnab and Julia Parnell.
Previous award recipients include Niki Caro, Ngila Dickson, Chelsea Winstanley, Rachel Lang, Janine Morrell-Gunn, Gaylene Preston, Robin Scholes and Jane Campion
The event was MC'd by Kate Rodgers, with music by DJ Rebecca Turner and a surprise guest appearance from "Dynamotion" - New Zealand's premiere comedy dance troupe.
The full list of finalists is:
South Pacific Pictures Award for Achievement in Film
Leanne Pooley for 'Beyond the Edge'
Miriam Smith for 'The Ground We Won'
Chelsea Winstanley for 'What We Do in the Shadows'
Queenstown Camera Company Entrepreneurship Award
Bettina Hollings - Imagination Television Ltd
Robyn Scott Vincent - The Attitude Group
Michelle Walshe - Augusto Ltd
Images & Sound Award for Success in Television
Tash Christie for 'Neighbours at War', 'Showtime' and 'Nabbed' for Greenstone TV
Philly de Lacey for Screentime New Zealand's drama prgrammes first broadcast between
1 July 2013 and 30 June 2015
Bronwynn Bakker for 'Jono and Ben'
Professional Lighting Services Award for Unsung Heroine of the NZ Screen Industry
Christina Asher
Leonne Kassler
Pat Robins
Fulcrum Media Finance Woman to Watch Award
Desray Armstrong
Alyx Duncan
Sophie Henderson
Te Puni K?kiri Te Reo M?ori Champion Award
Mihingarangi Forbes
Mina Mathieson
Hinewehi Mohi
The judges determined that there should be only one recipient to be announced at the Awards ceremony for the Great Southern Film & Television Award for Outstanding Contribution to the NZ Screen Industry.