Course Leaders

Emma Slade - Producer/Line Producer

Emma is in pre-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). She is currently in post production with THE JUSTICE OF BUNNY KING starring Essie Davis (The Babadook) and Thomasin McKenzie (Leave No Trace). 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.