EmmaSlade
- Producer
Emma Slade runs production company Velvet Moss (formerly Firefly Films). Her producing credits include 1981 Springbok tour drama Rage and Margaret Mahy tale The Changeover. She was a producer on Ant Timpson's "deranged comic" thriller Come to Daddy and follow-up Bookworm, Chinese-Kiwi fantasy Into the Rainbow, and an associate producer on Brazilian/Kiwi drama Little Secret. In 2017 Slade was one of six founders of the Screen Women's Action Group (SWAG), which advocates against sexual harassment. The group was inspired by the MeToo movement, after Harvey Weinstein was accused of rampant sexual abuse.
Screenography
Awards
2012 New Zealand Television Awards
Nominated for Best One-Off Drama: Rage
“As New Zealanders, we do tend to joke and laugh. We work in a stressful, intense environment, so you need humour to liven it up. But when people get a bit handsy or make comments that are inappropriate, women don’t want to say anything in case they look like a spoilsport.”