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SimoneHorrocks

  • Director
  • Writer
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Simone Horrocks was roughly six when her father dragged her out of bed for a sneak preview of 2001: A Space Odyssey. She was totally transfixed. After studying film in London, Horrocks worked as a camera assistant, before her 1996 short Spindrift won a prize at the Berlin Film Festival. Her feature debut is “brooding, intense” (NZ Herald) drama After the Waterfall, featuring Anthony Starr.

Screenography

2010 Director, Writer Film
My Space
2010 Co-Director, Producer, Editor Film
New Dawn
1999 Director, Writer Short film
Inbetween
1998 Producer, Director Short film
Spindrift
1996 Writer, Director Short film

Awards

2011 Aotearoa Film and Television Awards
Nominated for Outstanding Feature Film Debut: for After the Waterfall

2001 Sundance Institute/NHK Filmmaker's Award
Semi-finalist

“Getting from advanced development to green light, is the last tough bit of the climb ... it’s the last five percent, but it’s the toughest five percent. ”

Simone Horrocks, on website Wellywood Woman, on getting films made