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SamPeacocke

  • Director
  • Writer
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Sam Peacocke won attention for his work on a slate of distinctive music videos, for everyone from King Kapisi (Lollipop) to The Mint Chicks (Vodafone award-winner Crazy? Yes! Dumb? No!). Peacocke's dramatic debut — short film Manurewa — reimagines events surrounding a high profile 2008 liquor store shooting. At the 2011 Berlin Film Festival, it won the Crystal Bear for best short film in its section. Peacocke has also won awards for a number of his commercials — and for 2012's Beautiful Machine, a feature-length documentary on Kiwi rock band Shihad.

Screenography

2016 Drone Cinematographer Television
2016 Aerial Cinematographer Short film
2012 Director Music video
2012 Director Film
Sleepeater
2010 Director Music video

Awards

2012 Sorta Unofficial New Zealand Film Awards
Best Director - Documentary Film: for Shihad: Beautiful Machine

2011 Berlinale - Berlin Film Festival (Germany)
Crystal Bear in the Generation 14plus Youth Section: Manurewa

“Among the hundreds of short film scripts I had read, this one really stood out. It was different and bold, going into uncharted territory. To use an old cliché, it had a voice. ”

Producer Kristian Eek on Sam Peacocke's script for Manurewa, Onfilm, February 2010