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JaneShearer

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After studying contemporary Māori art, Jane Shearer worked behind the scenes in film, and as an award-winning advertising copywriter. Nature's Way - her acclaimed directorial debut - was invited to 24 festivals, including Cannes. It won best short at the 2006 NZ Screen Awards. Shearer and partner Steve Ayson developed the film together, as they did Shearer's award-nominated follow-up short, Bird.

Screenography

Bird
2011 Co-Director, Writer Short film
Nature's Way
2006 Writer, Director Short film

Awards

2011 Aotearoa Film and Television Awards
Nominated for Best Short Film: Bird
Nominated for Best Screenplay - Short Film (with Gregory King and Steve Ayson): for Bird

2007 Paris Cinema Awards
Jury Award for Best Short Film: for Nature's Way

“I wanted to explore the idea that it all catches up with you in the end, and how karma conscience or the spiritual ends up being the deliverer of justice.”

— Jane Shearer, on her short film Nature’s Way