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SamKelly

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Sam Kelly directed the Wellington winners of the 48 Hours short film competition for three years running, from 2006 to 2008. After completing a Masters in Scriptwriting at Victoria University he was named SPADA NZ Young Film-maker of the Year, then made Lambs, a short about a teenager in gangland New Zealand. It screened at numerous festivals worldwide, including Berlin and Clermont-Ferrand. He is currently making commercials and developing his first feature.

Screenography

Savage
2020 Writer, Director Film
Lambs
2012 Writer, Director Short film
The Witch and the Woodsman
2010 Producer Short film
Darlene
2008 Director, Writer Short film
The Māori Detective and the Boogie Fever
2007 Director, Writer Short film

Awards

2012 Show Me Shorts Film Festival (New Zealand)
Best Director: for Lambs

2008 SPADA Screen Industry Awards (Screen Production and Development Association, New Zealand)
New Film-maker of the Year

“...part of the reason I wanted to make the film was to illuminate what kids in our own country are going through, so it's important to me that New Zealanders see it.”

— Sam Kelly, on his short film Lambs, in The Dominion-Post, 27 July 2012, page A9