Magma Short Film Festival 2009 Awards Categories
1 - SELF FUNDED (low budget)
2 - FUNDED (high budget)
3-INTERNATIONAL FAVOURITE
We have made these distinctions in consideration of the fact that having a high budget film that might be funded by the likes of the NZ Film Commission, will have advantages in quality over other films with low budgets - whose story telling and craft show great potential and deserve recognition.
AT Magma 2010 we have three judges who will decide winners
Mike Firth
Michael Firth’s debut feature, 70s ski movie Off the Edge, was
the first New Zealand feature to be nominated for an
Academy Award. Noted American critic Andrew Sarris praised
Firth’s 1985 movie, Sylvia, based on legendary Kiwi teacher
Sylvia Ashton-Warner, as one of the best films released that
year. He now produces commercials for his company
Tourism NZ Promotion and develops features.
Tim Worrall
Since finishing a Fine Arts degree at Elam, University of
Auckland, Tim has worked primarily as a tā moko artist. More
recently he has returned to an old art school interest in
television/film producing short film called Savage Rites.
Television credits include positions as: writer and sometime
director on the Māori children’s TV show Pukana; storyliner and
Māori consultant for South Pacific Pictures on Shortland Street,
Jackson’s Wharf and Whalerider. He has also directed on
television series’ for Velvet Stone Media and Firehorse Films. Tim is currently
redrafting a feature film script titled Piki Whara.
Mike Jonathan (Tainui/Te Arawa/Mataatua)
Mike studied television production at Bay of Plenty
Polytechnic in Tauranga. Since then he has directed short
films Shadows – Magma 2009 and Hawaikii - Best Short
Drama ImagineNative 2006. He has directed for television;
Mitre 10 Marae DIY, Bro-Tour.com, Funny Fullas, Tatai Hono,
Hunting Aotearoa, Wannabes as well as a number of
corporate productions and music videos.
“Producing TV and film is the medium where I can combine all my artistic skills in
one. I’ve always loved the arts from painting and music to photography. It was
only natural for me to make the transition to TV and film. I have a passion to
inspire all people through my Maori culture. We have a lot of stories to tell the
world and it’s about time we start telling them.”
