Ainsley Gardiner

Ainsley Gardiner, MNZM, has been a producer on a run of successful short films and hit movies. She worked with Taika Waititi and Cliff Curtis on Oscar-nominated short Tama Tu, and features Eagle vs Shark and Boy. Gardiner launched Miss Conception Films with producer Georgina Conder. Their work includes comedy The Breaker Uppers and doco She Shears. Her directorial debut was Cousins, with co-director Briar Grace-Smith.  

Extremely intelligent, very bright and very savvy ... she has an astounding capacity and capability, the amount of work she does. Cliff Curtis on Ainsley Gardiner, in The NZ Herald, 22 March 2010