Glenn Standring is a New Zealand scriptwriter, producer and film director, working in the action, horror and fantasy genres. He is from Feilding in the North Island of New Zealand. He is descended from Glaswegians and Mancunians on the European side and the Ngāpuhi tribe on the New Zealand side. Standring studied film at the

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, and completed a first class honours degree in Archaeology from

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in Dunedin.

Career

His last short film was the experimental computer animation '' Lenny Minute One'' which was selected for the 1993 short film competition at

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. His first feature film as writer/director was the low-budget film '' The Irrefutable Truth about Demons'' (2000), which was nominated for best film awards at fantasy film festivals in Portugal and Spain. Standring's second film was ''

Perfect Creature ''Perfect Creature'' is a 2007 New Zealand horror/thriller film from 2007, written and directed by Glenn Standring and starring Saffron Burrows and Dougray Scott, set in an alternate universe New Zealand. The New Zealand release date was 18 Oc ...

.'' The film was an ambitious horror/thriller set in an alternative universe New Zealand that incorporated elements of history and fantasy. In this world vampires are protectors of mankind, rather than the enemy. The film sold to

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at a reportedly record price for a New Zealand film. His third feature film as a writer and producer, ''

The Dead Lands ''The Dead Lands'' is a 2014 New Zealand action film directed by Toa Fraser. It was screened in the Special Presentations section at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival where it had its world premier on 4 September 2014. It was selected ...

'', was released in 2014. The film is a Māori language action feature shot in Auckland and the central North Island of New Zealand. It features the Māori martial art Mau Rakau, a unique hand-to-hand fighting style not well known outside of New Zealand. The film was a box office hit at home and garnered a Special Presentation slot on the opening day of the Toronto International Film Festival and was in Deborah Young's (Hollywood Reporter) Top 10 Festival Films of the Year, receiving plaudits from James Cameron and Peter Jackson. It was New Zealand’s entry for the Oscars for Best Foreign Language Film. He was Writer and Executive Producer on the UK-NZ thriller 6 Days which featured Abbie Cornish, Mark Strong and Jamie Bell. The Netflix Original screened at the BFI London Film Festival and drew praise from Total Film “drum-tight with tension” and the UK’s Sunday Times as “unexpectedly thoughtful”. He also worked as a writer on the '
McLaren
'' documentary directed by Roger Donaldson. In 2020 he was Executive Producer and Creator of '
The Dead Lands
'', an 8-part series horror/fantasy series produced for AMC/Shudder Networks
Decider
called it an exciting and funny Ancient-Māori Riff on the Z-word Genre an
Locus
Magazine saw it as a first-rate action adventure supernatural horror series.

References

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