Te Whanganui-a-Tara / Wellington

Wellington Regional Manager

Your Te Whanganui-a-Tara / Wellington City Manager is Thomas Coppell.

Thomas Coppell

Thomas Coppell (they/them) is a proud Hutt kid, producer & storyteller passionate about empowering rangatahi and under-represented humans to make cool screen art. They have extensive experience producing factual & scripted content for big and small screens, substantially for rangatahi, the young at heart, and the rainbow community.

Their producing credits include two NZIFF NZ’s Best Short finalists, most recently, teen drama Gate Crash, and four NZ On Air funded series; including Little Apocalypse, New Zealand’s first children's drama by, for and about rainbow young people currently available on TVNZ2 & TVNZ+.

Thomas also co-wrote and co-created the series. Thomas is produced their first feature film, Paloma Schneideman’s debut feature, Big Girls Don't Cry, which had its world premiere in competition at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival and has since screened at SXSW, BFI: Flare and TIFF: Next Wave.