LeanneSaunders
- Producer
Leanne Saunders’ eye for talent has resulted in producer credits on six features: box office hits Hunt for the Wilderpeople and Born to Dance, Nazi horror The Devil’s Rock, and dramas Desert, The Weight of Elephants and Christmas. She also executive produced a run of successful shorts. In 2016 Saunders was appointed Head of Production and Development at the NZ Film Commission.
Biography
Producer Leanne Saunders completed a BA at Victoria University, majoring in psychology.
Her first screen job was at long-running company Working Title Films, in the UK (where she worked on Vincent Ward's Map Of The Human Heart and Hanif Kureishi's London Kills Me). As part of the Manifesto Film Sales team, she was also involved in European release campaigns for Pedro Almodovar's Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down and David Lynch's Wild At Heart.
Screenography
Awards
2017 Rialto Channel New Zealand Film Awards (The Moas)
Best Film: Hunt for the Wilderpeople
2011 Cannes Film Festival
Critics' Week - Best Short Film: Blue
2007 Paris Cinema International Film Festival
Best Short Film: Nature's Way
“Making a film on a low budget isn’t the problem — actually the big challenge is how you get it out to audiences.”