Documentary Edge Industry About The Screen Edge Forum

Curating Team

Alex Lee
Director, Documentary NZ Trust

Dan Shanan
Director, Documentary NZ Trust

Fiona Milburn
Fiona Milburn is a partner in WireFrame Ltd which specializes in visual effects, transmedia, and technology based content for traditional and emerging platforms. She is a founding member of Unguarded Intersection, a collaborative group of moving image artists, which explores new and innovative ways of presenting the moving image. Fiona is also co-director of Transmedia NZ; curator of Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age; an AUT CoLab Advisory Board member; and Life Member of Women in Film & Television.

Anna Jackson
Anna is currently undertaking a joint PhD at The University of Melbourne and the University of Auckland, researching innovation and change in New Zealand's documentary production ecology. She has a strong interest in new and emerging documentary forms and practices. Anna is also the co-director of Transmedia NZ, an organisation that seeks to promote the development of transmedia production in New Zealand, and is a partner in Virtuo, a multi-disciplinary collective specialising in creative and strategic projects using new and emerging technologies.

Lyn Collie
Filmmaker, video producer, tutor and writer Lyn Collie produced the award-winning feature documentary There Once was an Island: Te Henua e Nnoho, currently in worldwide distribution. Lyn is producer at and co-director (with Briar March) of boutique production company On the Level Productions and works with other independent filmmakers as a creative consultant. She produces video, lectures on video production and supports the development and introduction of new teaching technologies at The University of Auckland Business School. Lyn was previously a film and media studies tutor and production co-ordinator for Annie Goldson, and produced, directed and edited Cruise Control, a 2005 indie documentary on "boy-racer" culture. She has written regularly for several publications in New Zealand, particularly Take, the Screen Director's Guild of New Zealand publication. Lyn co-authored online educational resources for the documentaries Sheilas: 28 Years On and Allie Eagle and Me and has created blogs and a website using various platforms. She has an honours degree in Social Anthropology (Otago) and a Masters in documentary directing (Auckland).

Alanagh Stone
Alanagh Stone has spend the last 6 years working in and around the film and television industry. Starting in the production office, she has also worked in production accounting on a wide range of international and local tv shows and films including Prince Caspian, Power Rangers, The Hopes and Dreams of Gazza Snell. For the past 2 years she has worked at Documentary NZ Trust assisting with the Documentary Edge Festival and the Forum. Alanagh has a degree in Fine Arts from Auckland University and now expresses her creativity in her spare time through choreographing and teaching dance.

Why Attend Screen Edge Forum?

Transmedia NZ is proud to be working with the Screen Edge Forum to support the ongoing development of New Zealand's screen production community, creating opportunities for collaboration and innovation, and the sharing of knowledge and ideas.
Transmedia NZ

Documentary Edge is at the forefront of making sure that they present New Zealanders with the latest trends and innovations being produced overseas.
Amy O'Connor, Filmmaker

The Forum has established a practical and effective meeting place for ideas, commissioners and the marketplace.
John Barnett, South Pacific Pictures

If we are continue to grow and thrive as a filmmaking community we need the Documentary NZ Trust to grow and thrive...and is an essential NZ organization.
Sumner Burstyn, Cloud South Films

The Forum has been a vital pan-industry event bringing together local and international participants to explore emerging trend and collaborative opportunities within documentary and transmedia.
Michael Brook, Film Auckland

The Documentation NZ Trust contributes significantly to the internationalisation of New Zealand's documentary and film talent.
Tara Pradhan, International Relations Manager, Auckland Council

It is a great asset to New Zealand's film making world to have the Documentary Edge Festival held annually here on these shores. May it long continue!!!!!
Claudia Pond-Eyley, Filmmaker

The service you are providing, not only to NZ filmmakers but those worldwide, is invaluable.
Frederick Marx, Academy Award winner, USA

DOCEdge is wonderful for our small tribe of filmmakers as the connection with the local and international communities is always so productive.
Associate Professor Annie Goldson, University of Auckland, Filmmaker, NZ

It's crucial that you use Documentary Edge to leverage support, locally, nationally and internationally, to strengthen your core vision, but to also build a much needed bridge between this creative community and the wider documentary community around the world.
Marc Boothe, B3 Media, UK (DOC Lab Mentor, 2010)

The fact that you put a good word in for us with other festivals, that you are out there flying the NZ flag and back here with advice on how to promote our films...it all makes living on the bottom of the world a little easier!
Leanne Pooley, Spacific Films Limited, Filmmaker, NZ