Course Leaders
Bonnie Blake - Head Course Leader
Bonnie Blake (Te Whanau a Apanui) has been working in the film & television industry for the past 12 years, predominantly in the Production Department. She has experience in roles from Runner through to Production Manager on local and international Productions. Her Production Coordinator credits include Mission Impossible: 6, The Shannara Chronicles, and Slow West.
Aside from Production, Bonnie has experience in both on and off set roles across the Accounts, Assistant Directing, Transport, and VFX Departments. She has completed vocational training in Drama Production Management at the Australian Film, Television & Radio School in Sydney, and undertaken a Unit Production Management Internship on The Meg, and Mulan. Bonnie was also selected to attend the Share The Knowledge: Line Producer Training Course in 2020. Having benefited from various initiatives for industry training, she is excited to help deliver the Coordinator Training Course and up-skill others in the industry.
Chantelle Burgoyne
Chantelle is an Auckland-based filmmaker of Samoan, Tongan and European heritage with a first-class MA in Screen Production specialising in directing drama from the University of Auckland. Since graduating, when not working on her own projects Chantelle has worked as a contractor in the NZ film industry having worked for the NZ Film Commission as the Fresh Shorts Assistant before working on various locally made Hollywood film and television projects as a production secretary, assistant production coordinator, script coordinator, cast coordinator and producer’s assistant. Most notably, Chantelle was the executive assistant to Barrie Osborne ONZM on Warner Brother’s The Meg and the cast and script Coordinator on Disney’s live-action Mulan. Her recent production credits include working as an assistant production coordinator on Netflix’s Cowboy Bebop and as the assistant to producers Donald de Line and Eddie Rubin on Amazon’s upcoming feature Don’t Make Me Go.
Kyrie MacTavish
With over 17 years professional broadcast experience I have gained a lot of practical production knowledge and worked on a variety of ventures from big budget feature films to no money passion projects. I have worked in several countries and enjoy working with people, negotiating, making deals, working to a deadline within a budget, being innovative and creatively solving problems.
Credits include Fantasy Island (2019), Guns Akimbo (2019), Mission Impossible - Fallout (2018), Ghost in the Shell (2017), Savage (2018), Daffodils (2018) among many more.
Rebecca Rowe
Rebecca’s industry experience spans over 18 years in several departments, Production, Post Production, Casting, Publicity, Script Coordinating, Assistant Directing & Art Department. Her work in the Casting and Extra’s departments include local projects such as Wellington Paranormal & The Rehearsal to International productions; Spartacus, MI6 & The Power of the Dog to name a few.
Rebecca was also selected for the “Share The Knowledge” Line Producing Workshop in 2020 and more recently the A to Z Screen Publicity Workshop both held in Auckland.
Since returning to her hometown Ōtepoti in 2019 Rebecca has consulted for the DCC around crew capacity, begun writing the Regional column for the NZTecho Guild & become a new trustee for Film Otago Southland.
Amanda Fityus
I am Freelance Stylist & Costume Coordinator for TV, Film & Editorial Industry, always looking for my next job to create exciting, eye-catching and interesting images for your next publication, commercial, or TV series.
I have over 20 years experience of styling in the film & TV industry. Styled and sourced clothing for celebrities, actors, supervised costume departments, handled budgets, worked closely with directors & producers, clients and worked some pretty long hours. Started as Costume standby moving into off set positions - Buyer, Costume Design, Design Assist and Supervisor/Coordinator.
Worked on NZ productions as well as Line Production and Co Pro.Multi skilled within the Costume Team.
I have worked on a big range of commercials that range from Air New Zealand commercials to Vodafone commercials for Qatar in the Middle East.
I have worked on numerous TV shows, including Shortland Street, Jackson’s Wharf, Young Hercules, Amazing Extraordinary Friends, One Land, Politically Incorrect Guide to Teenagers, First Crossings, Spartacus, Agent Anna, Step Dave & Filthy Rich.
Janelle Hope
After graduating from Massey University in 1996 with an Arts degree majoring in Psychology and Education, Janelle travelled extensively overseas, eventually landing as a bright-eyed enthusiastic 24-year-old in Melbourne. Here she tirelessly networked her way onto a local television production as an Art Department Runner, where she began to learn the ropes of fast turnaround television.
While in Melbourne, Janelle noticed a shortage of experienced Art Coordinators both in New Zealand and Australia. She decided to hone in on this niche area by consolidating her previous office management experience with her newly gained film & tv experience forge a 22-year career in Art Department Coordinating.
Janelle has worked extensively in New Zealand, Australia, and Fiji on large scale international studio feature films, streaming television series, local independent movies, and network television. During this time, she has immersed herself in other roles such as Art Department Manager, Art Department Estimator, Costume Supervisor, Travel and Accommodation Coordinator, SPFX Coordinator and Cast Coordinator.
Janelle loves the fast-paced, ever-changing nature of the industry as well as the like-minded people involved. The creative diversity and project-based nature of the industry have kept her on her toes. No two jobs are ever the same, which is what makes this career captivating and exciting!
Rosie Smith
Rosie Smith has been involved in the film and television screen sector, both abroad and in NZ, for over 15 years. Production has always been her passion and where she is best suited. She has worked her way through from Production Assistant to Line Producer, and happily still works across a variety of roles in the Production Department. Gaining experience in factual, drama, episodic and feature, credits include multiple series of Gold Rush for Discovery Channel, The Shannara Chronicles, A Wrinkle in Time, Power Rangers, Nude Tuesday and Evil Dead Rise.
“I love with Production that you can be across the whole project and have input and communication with all Departments. The Production Coordinator role is so integral to the department. You are the leader for those below you, and the support for those above. You make the wheels turn!”
Rosie is now based in Hawke’s Bay after relocating from Auckland, and is a volunteer on the board of The Eastern Screen Alliance – an organisation which aims to promote the region as a screen production destination and provide infrastructure for productions to be filmed in Hawke’s Bay.
Angela Cudd
Angela (Ngāti Porou, Ngātiwai, Te Whānau-ā-Apanui) is a hard-working Māori/Kiwi Producer, who made her foray into Film & TV in 2013. With 6+ years’ experience in production, her credits include local content like The Breaker Upperers, Cousins, Maui’s Hook and Māori TV’s award-winning ANZAC Broadcast. Angela is proud to have built a career by supporting local, socially important stories like these that hold meaning and have strong distinctly Kiwi or Māori content.
Emma Slade - Producer/Line Producer
Emma is in post-production on her next feature NUDE TUESDAY, a NZ/Aust co-production, starring Jackie van Beek (The Breaker Upperers) and Damon Herriman (Judy and Punch). Her recent film, THE JUSTICE OF BUNNY KING starring Essie Davis (The Babadook) and Thomasin McKenzie (Leave No Trace), is currently undergoing it’s theatrical run. Her film COME TO DADDY, an NZ/Irish/Canadian official co-production premiered earlier this year at Tribeca, which also won best director (Ant Timpson) and actor (Elijah Wood) in Toronto After Dark Festival 2019. She has just commenced shooting her blue-chip documentary feature with David Farrier (Dark Tourist, Tickled). In 2017, her young adult thriller THE CHANGEOVER starring Timothy Spall (Mr Turner) and Melanie Lynskey (The Intervention), was in competition at the Alice Nella Citta. Earlier that year, INTO THE RAINBOW was the first Chinese/NZ co-production, starring Willow Shields (Hunger Games) and the Brazilian/NZ feature LITTLE SECRET, which was nominated as Brazil’s Oscar entry for Best Foreign Film 2017. Other titles include the Netflix original LETTER FOR THE KING, RAGE, the UK/NZ co-production TRACKER, SEPARATION CITY and BRIDE FLIGHT.
Emma is also a founding member of the Screen Women’s Action Group (SWAG), which began in January 2018 as a local response to the international movements #metoo and TimesUp. SWAG was driven by their belief that more could be done to address sexual harassment, discrimination and power imbalances in New Zealand’s own screen culture.
Victoria Dabbs - International Line Producer
Victoria started her production career working on a children’s TV series as a production assistant. She continued to work her way up through the production team to co-ordinate and production manage productions such as Nicolas Winding Refn’s ‘Valhalla Rising’, Peter Mullan’s ‘Neds’ and most recently the BBC’s ‘ABC Murders’ and ‘The Singapore Grip’.
From 2012 Victoria has been line producing primarily independent feature films which include Dexter Fletcher’s ‘Sunshine on Leith’, Terence Davies’ ‘Sunset Song’, and in New Zealand Stuart McKenzie and Miranda Harcourt’s ‘The Changeover’ and David Stubbs’ ‘Daffodils’.
Over the years Victoria has worked internationally across Europe, Asia and Australasia She has worked with various tax credit schemes and is a Screen Production Grant consultant for the NZ Film Commission as well as experienced in cast and crew contracting, including PACT/Equity in the UK, SAG in the US and the Blue book and SPADA/Equity Agreement.