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South Seas Film And Television School
South Seas Film & Television School is a higher education institution centered on the visual arts based in Auckland, New Zealand. They offer courses for full-time diplomas in Film & TV, Photography and On Screen Acting. They also offer introductory courses for Introduction to Film & TV Production, Introduction to Photography and Introduction to On Screen Acting. In May 2019, South Seas Film and Television School was rebranded under the new name “Yoobee Colleges - South Seas Film School Campus”. Notable alumni * Alex Gilbert - adoption advocate *Oriini Kaipara - Broadcaster, journalist and Māori translator *Jabez Olssen - Editor * Julia Parnell - Producer *Gwendoline Taylor - Actress *David Schurmann - filmmaker *Jazz Thornton - mental health activist, author, filmmaker *Pere Wihongi Pere Te Ruru o te Ramana Wihongi (born ), sometimes known mononymously as PERE, is a New Zealand musician, voice actor, choreographer, and kapa haka performer. She is part of the award-winning ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Auckland
Auckland (pronounced ) ( mi, Tāmaki Makaurau) is a large metropolitan city in the North Island of New Zealand. The List of New Zealand urban areas by population, most populous urban area in the country and the List of cities in Oceania by population, fifth largest city in Oceania, Auckland has an urban population of about It is located in the greater Auckland Region—the area governed by Auckland Council—which includes outlying rural areas and the islands of the Hauraki Gulf, and which has a total population of . While European New Zealanders, Europeans continue to make up the plurality of Auckland's population, the city became multicultural and Cosmopolitanism, cosmopolitan in the late-20th century, with Asian New Zealanders, Asians accounting for 31% of the city's population in 2018. Auckland has the fourth largest Foreign born, foreign-born population in the world, with 39% of its residents born overseas. With its large population of Pasifika New Zealanders, the city is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Zealand
New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island country by area, covering . New Zealand is about east of Australia across the Tasman Sea and south of the islands of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga. The country's varied topography and sharp mountain peaks, including the Southern Alps, owe much to tectonic uplift and volcanic eruptions. New Zealand's capital city is Wellington, and its most populous city is Auckland. The islands of New Zealand were the last large habitable land to be settled by humans. Between about 1280 and 1350, Polynesians began to settle in the islands and then developed a distinctive Māori culture. In 1642, the Dutch explorer Abel Tasman became the first European to sight and record New Zealand. In 1840, representatives of the United Kingdom and Māori chiefs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Gilbert (adoption Advocate)
Sasha Alexander Gilbert (Russian language, Russian: Саша Александр "Алекс" Гилберт; born 1 April 1992) is a Russian born, New Zealand adoption advocate, writer and presenter. He is the founder of the organisation ''I'm Adopted'' which he established in 2015. Gilbert, whose name at birth is Gusovskoi Alexander Viktorovich was born in Arkhangelsk and was placed in the local orphanage for the first two years of his life until he was adopted by his New Zealand parents in 1994. In 2013 he started searching for his Russian birth parents, with whom he had no connection. He found his birth mother and then his birth father, who did not know about Gilbert's existence until Gilbert contacted him in 2013. The story of his search for his birth parents first aired on New Zealand television in 2014. In 2015 Gilbert established ''I'm Adopted'' for adopted people to share their stories as well as a support network for adoptees. Gilbert has made several appearances on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oriini Kaipara
Oriini Kaipara (born 1983) is a New Zealand Māori broadcaster, journalist and translator and interpreter of te reo Māori and English. Kaipara has worked for Mai FM, TVNZ 1, Māori Television, and Three. She currently co-hosts Three's weekly political current affairs show ''Newshub Nation.'' In 2019 Kaipara was the first person with a ''moko kauae'' tā moko facial tattoo to present mainstream television news. In 2021 she became the first such person to host a primetime news program on national television. Early life Kaipara was born in Whakatāne in 1983. Her iwi are Tūhoe, Ngāti Awa, Tūwharetoa and Ngāti Rangitihi. She attended a Kura Kaupapa Māori, and trained at South Seas Film and Television School in 2002. Career Kaipara was a newsreader at Mai FM, and then in 2004 joined TVNZ's fully te reo Māori ''Waka Huia'' as a reporter and director. In 2017, the Māori Television programme ''Native Affairs,'' which she presented, revealed she has essentially pure ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jabez Olssen
Jabez Olssen (born 5 August 1975) is a New Zealand film and television editor who has worked extensively with director Peter Jackson. Starting in 1998, Olssen worked in the editorial department of two television programs in New Zealand. He was then hired to work with principal editor Michael J. Horton on '' The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers'' (directed by Peter Jackson – 2002). Olssen was ultimately credited as an "additional editor" on this film. The two editors won the Online Film Critics Society Award and the Las Vegas Film Critics Society Award for this film. Olssen said of his work "Anyway, if I never get to edit anything ever again, I can still say that I've edited scenes with Gollum in them and I've edited scenes with Darth Vader in them so, I'm good." He won an Emmy The Emmy Awards, or Emmys, are an extensive range of awards for artistic and technical merit for the American and international television industry. A number of annual Emmy Award ceremonies are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julia Parnell
Julia Parnell (born 1979) is a New Zealand film and television producer and documentary director. For the last eleven years she has led the production company Notable Pictures. Her career started in 1999 and she has produced and directed hundreds of hours of documentary content including two feature films, thirty series, eleven one off docs and a documentary podcast. Career In 2010, Parnell won the Great Southern Television Woman to Watch Award. Parnell left Butobase in early July 2010 to start her own production company, Notable Pictures. Since the opening of Notable Pictures, Parnell has produced projects including two series of '' Bring Your Boots, OZ'' in collaboration with Māori Television's Glen Osborne, a documentary funded by Māori Television and New Zealand On Air about Henare O'Keefe, Māori social crusader and District Councilor for Hastings, New Zealand, '' Both Worlds'', a New Zealand On Air-funded documentary series for broadcast on TV3. in which ten second ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gwendoline Taylor
Gwendoline Taylor (born 2 November 1987) is a New Zealand actress. She first appeared on screen in 2007 in ''Show of Hands (film), Show of Hands'', which was filmed in her hometown of New Plymouth. In 2008, Gwendoline moved to Auckland to study post-production at South Seas Film & Television School, where her tutors insisted that she belonged in front of the camera. In 2012, she was cast as Sibyl in ''Spartacus: War of the Damned'', a television series on the Starz (TV channel), Starz network.Starz's Spartacus casts Gwendoline Taylor Auckland Actors, Retrieved 26 February 2012(23 January 2013) [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Schurmann
David Schurmann is a film director, producer, screenwriter, explorer, author, speaker, CEO and public figure. Career Schurmann, best known for ''Little Secret'' Brazil's official 2017 Oscar entry, first showed his passion for filmmaking at age 13 when he began filming the adventures during the Schurmann Family first circumnavigation of the globe. He received his formal training in film and television in New Zealand. He received his formal training in film and television in New Zealand. He then completed his education in the United States. He has worked internationally as a director and producer of feature films, television programs and documentaries. As producer/director/cinematographer of the Schurmann Family Adventures, he has filmed around the world, most notably during the '' Magellan Global Adventure'' (1997–2000). In 2007, Schurmann released his first feature film, ''The World Twice Around'', a documentary that won two awards at the Recife Film Festival in Brazil, for Be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jazz Thornton
Jazz Thornton is a New Zealand mental health activist, author, speaker, TikToker and filmmaker. Thornton co-founded suicide prevention organisation, Voices of Hope, with eating disorder activist Genevieve Mora. Thornton has written three books: an autobiography ''Stop Surviving, Start Fighting,'' ''My Journey Starts Here'', a guided journal for improving well-being, and ''Letters to you,'' a book of letters to provide support, information, encouragement and tips on practical help for anyone suffering low moments. The 2020 New Zealand documentary ''The Girl on the Bridge'' deals with her struggles with mental health. In the documentary, Thornton meditated on losing her friend Jess to suicide. Thornton was declared New Zealander of the Year Awards#2021 winners, 2021 Young New Zealander of the Year. Biography As a teenager, Thornton attempted suicide 14 times. In 2016, as a film student, Thornton created the viral video ''Dear Suicidal Me'', which featured people, including Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pere Wihongi
Pere Te Ruru o te Ramana Wihongi (born ), sometimes known mononymously as PERE, is a New Zealand musician, voice actor, choreographer, and kapa haka performer. She is part of the award-winning music groups Maimoa and Te Kākano. Early life Wihongi was born and raised in Herekino. The family moved to Auckland when Wihongi was 9, and she began attending the Te Kura Kaupapa Māori ā Rohe o Māngere Kura Kaupapa Māori, immersion school. While there she competed in and won the Ngā Manu Kōrero speech competition. She then attended South Seas Film & Television School to pursue a career in television. Career Television Wihongi's first job was as a production assistant, but eventually she worked her way up to be a reporter on news and current affairs shows such as ''Te Karere'' and ''Marae (TV series), Marae'', and presenting the children's show ''Pūkana''. In 2019, Wihongi started doing music and voice acting for the children's cartoon ''Pipi Mā''. In 2021, Wihongi was a judge on the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Education In Auckland
Auckland (pronounced ) ( mi, Tāmaki Makaurau) is a large metropolitan city in the North Island of New Zealand. The most populous urban area in the country and the fifth largest city in Oceania, Auckland has an urban population of about It is located in the greater Auckland Region—the area governed by Auckland Council—which includes outlying rural areas and the islands of the Hauraki Gulf, and which has a total population of . While European New Zealanders, Europeans continue to make up the plurality of Auckland's population, the city became multicultural and cosmopolitan in the late-20th century, with Asians accounting for 31% of the city's population in 2018. Auckland has the fourth largest foreign-born population in the world, with 39% of its residents born overseas. With its large population of Pasifika New Zealanders, the city is also home to the biggest ethnic Polynesian population in the world. The Māori-language name for Auckland is ', meaning "Tāmaki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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