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NeilPardington

Kai Tahu, Kati Mamoe, Kati Waewae, Pākehā
  • Director
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Neil Pardington began making experimental films while studying fine arts at Elam. Since then, a long collaboration with Stuart McKenzie has seen the pair both co-directing (1991 award-winner The Mouth and the Truth), and swapping director and producer roles. In 1994, Pardington’s short The Dig — the tale of an elderly couple excavating below their house — was invited into a special season of Kiwi shorts at Cannes.

Screenography

For Good
2003 Producer Film
Losing Sleep
2000 Director Short film
Chinese Whispers
1996 Director, Writer, Producer Short film
The Dig
1994 Director, Writer, Producer Short film
Snap
1994 Producer, Co-Director Short film

Awards

1996 Asia Pacific Film Festival
Nominated for Best Short Film (With Stuart McKenzie): for Chinese Whispers

1995 Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival (France)
In Competition: for Snap

“I think it’s whatever I’m doing at the time that makes me ‘what I am’.”

— Filmmaker, photographer, designer Neil Pardington, interviewed in Capital Times