AntTimpson
- Producer
- Director
- Executive
Ant Timpson’s longtime love affair with movies — especially the wild and 'incredibly strange' ones — has seen him launch film festivals, and New Zealand's biggest filmmaking contest, 48Hours. Timpson has helped produce a run of features, from Housebound to The ABCs of Death. In 2019 he directed acclaimed, genre-twisting feature Come to Daddy, starring Elijah Wood.
Screenography
Biography
Ant Timpson is known for encouraging the type of movies that will cross almost any line to entertain: horror flicks, genrebenders, films that push buttons and fall foul of the censors. His parents are partly to blame — "at a tender age" they took him to experience incendiary 1970s classics Taxi Driver and Apocalypse Now.
Awards
2019 Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival (Spain)
Nominated for Best Motion Picture: Come to Daddy
2016 Canadian Comedy Awards
Nominated for Best Feature Film (with Benoit Beaulieu, Anne-Marie Gélinas and Tim Riley): Turbo Kid
“It’s as if director Jason Eisener had downed a keg of Street Trash Viper, blended it with some meaty chunks of Texas Gladiators 2020 and Class of 1984, then vomited it all up in Technicolor.”
More information
Official website for the 48Hours filmmaking competition
Ant Timpson writes about the history of 48Hours for NZ On Screen
Interview on 2012 anthology horror film The ABCs of Death, IndieWire, 6 September 2024
Ant Timpson on a life of watching & making films, Talkhouse, April 2019
Interview on 2019 feature film Come to Daddy, The Spinoff, February 2020
Interview on Come to Daddy & Turbo Kid, Dread Central, February 2020
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