GlennStandring
- Director
- Writer
Glenn Standring is a writer/director with a background in animation and computer graphics. His 1996 short Lenny Minute was accepted into competition at Cannes. To date his feature films have been southern gothic takes on the occult/horror genres. He also provided the script for historical action tale The Dead Lands, directed in 2014 by No. 2 talent Toa Fraser.
Screenography
Biography
Initially planning to be an archaeologist, Glenn Standring decided film was his future after a close encounter with a documentary crew, while on a dig in Asia. Standring was seven metres down a dirty excavation pit; the film crew were passing through, en route to Angkor Watt.
Awards
2020 New Zealand Television Awards
Nominated for Best Drama Series (with Matthew Metcalfe, Fraser Brown, Liz Adams and Tainui Stephens): The Dead Lands
2014 Rialto Channel NZ Film Awards (The Moas)
Nominated for Best Film: The Dead Lands
Nominated for Best Screenplay: for The Dead Lands
“Shooting always scares the shit out of me because of the money involved and the unknown. And you know that it will be an endurance race – shooting is physically very brutal on directors.”
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