AinsleyGardiner
- Producer
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.
Biography
Ainsley Gardiner fell in love with film in Whakatane. Growing up there on a diet of "mostly really bad Hollywood movies" helped clarify what makes a film good; it also fuelled a desire to work in the screen industry. Since then Gardiner has sought out stories by two groups who have often battled to be heard on-screen: Māori and women.
Screenography
Awards
2018 Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit
For Services to Film and Television
2011 Aotearoa Film and Television Awards
Best Short Film: Ebony Society
“Extremely intelligent, very bright and very savvy ... she has an astounding capacity and capability, the amount of work she does.”
More information
Ainsley Gardiner's company Miss Conception Films
Ainsley Gardiner Appointed Head of Funding at NZ Film Commission, NZFC, 4 July 2024
May 2019 Next interview (scroll down)
Extended E-Tangata interview, September 2018
Extended Stuff interview, April 2018
NZ Film Commission page for Ainsley Gardiner's 2009 short film Mokopuna
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