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GayleneBarnes

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Filmmaker and artist Gaylene Barnes has used her grab bag of skills on film sets, in editing suites, and as a painter and multi-media artist. Nominated for awards as both a production designer and an editor, Barnes has also directed everything from feature documentary River of Freedom to animated shorts.

Screenography

Project Fiftyone
2025 Director, Writer Film
River of Freedom
2023 Director, Writer, Producer, Editor, Camera Operator Film
We Are One: The Mosque Attacks One Year On
2020 Editor Television
Changing South
2019 - 2021 Director, Editor Series

Biography

Long based in the South Island, Southland-born Gaylene Barnes has worked in almost every screen job running: from designing the opening graphics of TV shows, to calling the shots on set and then editing them afterwards. Along the way she has designed classic Dunedin movie Scarfies, and created her own multimedia works to play across six screens at Christchurch Airport.

Awards

2005 New Zealand Screen Awards
Nominated for Achievement in Editing - Television Documentary: for Out of Sight/Out of Mind

2000 Nokia New Zealand Film Awards
Nominated for Best Production Design: for Scarfies

“Gaylene seems to favour filmmaking that examines tough issues, presenting them in new ways. ”

— Janet Joyce, in an article in CS Arts, June 2007