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ShaneLoader

  • Director
  • Editor
  • Cinematographer
  • Writer
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Shane Loader has credits as editor, cameraman, producer, and writer/director (including Clermont-Ferrand selected short The Terrorist). Since 2008, alongside partner Andrea Bosshard, he has begun making and distributing feature films through filmmaking initiative Torchlight Films. The pair's third feature The Great Maiden's Blush won acclaim when it was released in 2016. 

Screenography

Kobi
2018 Editor, Cinematographer, Co-Director, Producer Film
The Great Maiden's Blush
2016 Co-Director, Co-Writer Film
Hot Air
2014 Cinematographer Film
Street Hospital - First Episode
2013 Assembly Editor Television
Street Hospital
2013 - 2016 Assembly Editor Series

Biography

After editing a run of documentary projects, Shane Loader has crossed into directing feature-length dramas. Working with partner Andrea Bosshard, he co-directed movies Taking the Waewae Express and Hook, Line and Sinker.

Awards

2017 Rialto Channel New Zealand Film Awards (The Moas)
Best Self-Funded Feature: The Great Maiden's Blush

2009 Wairoa Film Festival
Best Feature: Taking the Waewae Express

“We shot through windows, from behind doors, around corners, to create a sense that we the audience are peeping into the lives of the characters in an almost documentary style.”

— Shane Loader, on making Hook, Line and Sinker