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AbiKing-Jones

  • Director
  • Editor
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Schooled at Unitec, Auckland University and Juice TV, King-Jones has made a run of NZ film festival-selected documentaries in partnership with Errol Wright: Te Whānau o Aotearoa, The Last Resort, Operation 8 and The 5th Eye (about homelessness, land sales, terror raids and surveillance respectively). With Alister Barry, she co-directed the award-nominated Hot Air; she also edited his A Civilised Society.

Screenography

2017 Editor Film
2015 Co-Director, Editor Film
2014 Co-Director, Editor Film
2011 Editor, Co-Director Film
2008 Editor, Camera, Sound Film

Awards

2014 Rialto Channel NZ Film Awards (The Moas)
Nominated for Best Documentary: Hot Air
Nominated for Best Editor - Documentary: for Hot Air

2012 Wairoa Māori Film Festival
Best Documentary: Operation 8

“I just hope that audiences will get a first-hand experience of the people who were targeted. If you are able to get a broader picture of where this has all come from, maybe you will go away from it being more aware of what's going on.”

Abi King-Jones on terror raids documentary Operation 8, The NZ Herald, 8 April 2011