Robin Laing

Over a rich producing career Robin Laing has worked in producing roles on everything from Sonja Davies mini-series Bread and Roses to boys' own pool movie Stickmen. Her feature films, shorts, television drama series, and documentaries have reached local and international audiences. 

Aside from an ongoing collaboration with director Gaylene Preston, Laing has operated equally successfully as an independent producer. She has produced four features, three short films (selected for Cannes, Sundance and Venice), four television dramas and seven television documentaries. 

The Len Lye documentary, Flip and Two Twisters, was selected for the 1994 Paris Biennale and the Colin McCahon documentary, Victory Over Death, was a Gold Plaque winner at the Chicago International Film Festival, 1989.

Her short film, Stroke (directed by Christine Jeffs, 1993) opened at the Venice Film Festival and The Imploding Self (directed by Anna Reeves, 1995) screened in competition at Toronto and Venice. 

She also contributed to the award winning documentary War Stories as Executive Producer (directed by Gaylene Preston, Best Documentary, NZ Film and TV Awards 1995).

Laing has contributed to the ongoing development of the NZ film and TV industry and was a founding member and President of Women in Film and Television (WIFT). She instigated the annual Robin Laing Scholarship for a woman filmmaker to attend the Newtown Film School in Wellington.

During her career Laing has been a member of the Screen Industry Task Force, a Trustee of the New Zealand Film Archive, a member of SPADA Executive, a New Zealand Film Commission Board member and Consultant Producer for the Short Film Fund.

In 1993 Robin Laing was honoured with an MBE for services to the New Zealand film industry.

Laing currently has three scripts in development and is one of the producers of international co-production The Vintner's Luck, based on the novel by Elizabeth Knox.