Kirikiriroa / Hamilton
City Managers
Your Kirikiriroa / Hamilton City Manager is Sam Elton-Walters.
Sam Elton Walters
Sam has helped out in a variety of film projects in the Waikato and is often found behind the scenes wrangling cables, lifting heavy things or figuring out how to do something practically.
He's recently taken up the role of festival co-ordinator with the Misty Flicks Film Festival.
He loves getting people excited about their projects and seeing what people create no matter their skill level. He's been involved in 48 hour teams in the past and understands the fun of furious filmmaking.
When he's not involved in filmmaking he can be found creating giant pumpkin content or sorting out a weekly podcast.
Contacts
Your main point of contact for the Kirikirikoa/Hamilton region is Sam.
Email Sam
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Heats
All heats in 2024 will be screened online so teams can watch all entries.
Hamilton / Taranaki City Finals
Please note that Taranaki teams will be combined with Hamilton teams for the 2024 city finals. We will be crowning winners for both regions at the event.
Date / time - Thursday 27th June, 7pm
Venue - Event Cinema Chartwell, Westfield Chartwell, Corner Hukanui & Comries Rd.
Judges
Sophie Dowson, Executive Producer (Chinese, Pākehā)
Sophie (she/her) is an experienced producer working in video and television with a background in theatre, festivals and events. Sophie is Head of Video at Hex Work Productions and The Spinoff, is on the Pan-Asian Screen Collective (PASC) Board and was a finalist for the Woman to Watch award at the Women in Film and Television (WIFT) awards in 2022.
She has worked extensively in production, producing the 2019 Comedy Gala for broadcast as it took on a refreshed format over three episodes, as the assistant producer on Jono & Ben and Funny Girls, and as production manager of Funny As: The Story of NZ Comedy.
Recent producer credits include Alice Snedden’s Bad News S03, Chris & Eli’s Porn Revolution, Youth Wings S01, The Single Object, Extremely Online, Takeout Kids S01 and the podcast 1984. She is the Executive Producer for Alice Snedden’s Bad News Saves the World, The Spinoff Anthology series (S01 & S02), 2 Cents 2 Much with Janaye Henry, Youth Wings S02, and Takeout Kids S02.
Mike Potton - Cinematographer
Mike Potton is a 48Hours frozen fossil dug up in a sarcophagus full of petrified MiniDV tapes. He was thawed and re-animated for 2021, shooting Traces of Nut's winning film Good Girl. In 2022, he shot runner up Child Support's A Multitude of Ways to Leave your Lover. Queer and Here, Kia Kids News and Country Calendar are some of his TV exploits shot before his inevitible return to a frozen tomb.
Miryam Jacobi
Miryam is a director, producer and writer based in Kirikiriroa/Hamilton. She trained as an actor at Toi Whakaari; NZ Drama School, graduating in 2015 with a Bachelor of Performing Arts.
Miryam has produced and directed commercial content for the likes of WellingtonNZ, Sir John Kirwan Foundation, Fonterra, Look Good Feel Better and Auckland Theatre Company, alongside producing music videos for artists such as Diggy Dupé, Israel Starr and Dick Move. Miryam has shown work at international film festivals such as Show Me Shorts, Galway Film Fleadh, Vail Film Festival and Melbourne Women in Film Festival.
Other highlights of her filmmaking career to date include second unit directing on Amazon’s feature Don’t Make Me Go and creating the highly-acclaimed NZ On Air funded documentary Disorder. Miryam co-founded production company 2113 with her partner Jack Barry, and is represented by Frank Management.