LeannePooley
- Director
- Producer
Leanne Pooley has made documentaries about yodelling twins, dancers, euthanasia, and artificial intelligence. Along the way, the Canadian-born Kiwi has won dozens of awards, plus a New Zealand Order of Merit. Pooley's CV includes Topp Twins hit Untouchable Girls, 3D saga Beyond the Edge, suicide story The Girl on the Bridge, and 25 April — which utilises animation to recreate the experience of WWI soldiers.
Screenography
Biography
Leanne Pooley has argued that a good documentary shares many features with a good fiction film — including "characters that you identify with", and a story that encompasses shifts in tone and pace. Pooley could have added to the list 'finding fresh ways to show what happened'. She has used 3D recreations to portray Edmund Hillary's conquering of Mt Everest, and animation to portray real life soldiers at war. Her hit film about entertainers The Topp Twins merges concert movie with decade-spanning documentary.
Awards
2017 Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit (ONZM)
For services to documentary filmmaking
2017 Rialto Channel New Zealand Film Awards (The Moas)
Nominated for Best Documentary: 25 April
Nominated for Best Documentary Director: for 25 April
“I was curious. As a filmmaker, that’s all you are at the end of the day – a paid curious person.”
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