Julia Parnell

Julia Alice Parnell
Julia accepting her WIFT NZ award
Born 1979
Kenya, East Africa
Country New Zealand

Julia Parnell (born 1979) is a New Zealand film and television producer[1]

Career

Julia Parnell attended South Seas Film & Television School, going on to work at several independent television companies around Auckland, including Eyeworks Touchdown, Screentime and Greenstone Pictures Limited, before becoming the Head of Production at ButoBase Film & TV Company. She worked at ButoBase for 6 years, producing, directing and providing creative input into more than three hundred television episodes over fourteen series. In 2010, Parnell won the Great Southern Television Woman to Watch Award.,[2] having been a finalist in the same category in 2009. Parnell left Butobase in early July 2010 to start her own production company Notable Pictures.

Since the opening of Notable Pictures Parnell has produced a diverse range of projects including two series of Bring Your Boots, OZ in collaboration with Maori Television's Glen Osborne, a documentary funded by Maori 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 [3] [4] [5] [6] ,in which ten second generation New Zealanders share their experiences of either living a cultural clash or enjoying the best of both worlds, and a probing one-hour documentary on Māori restorative justice. Restoring Hope a probing one-hour documentary on Māori restorative justice and The Exponents,[7] a Prime Rocks Documentary for Prime Television funded by New Zealand On Air that celebrates 30 years of The Exponents, a band whose sound defines what it means to be a Kiwi.

Parnell has recently expanded into producing drama with two short films Hitch Hike and Friday Tigers, and a third film, Dive, in pre-production, all three funded by the New Zealand Film Commission. [8] [9] [10]

Friday Tigers, written and directed by Aidee Walker, won the New Zealand International Film Festival’s Best New Zealand Short Film for 2013.[11] Hitch Hike has been in competition at major international film festivals such as Tampere Film Festival (2012),Melbourne International (2012), Bristol Encounters (2012), Hawaii International (2013), Durban International (2013) and Heart of Gold International, Australia (2013).

Parnell is currently producing and directing a documentary funded by Māori Television and New Zealand On Air, Rethinking Rehab, which aims to provide an insight into a bold new court in the New Zealand judicial system the Alcohol and Other Drug Treatment Court.[12]

Also currently underway is Loading Docs, a new initiative in collaboration with the New Zealand Film Commission and NZ On Air. The project will provide a launchpad for New Zealand documentary shorts starting with ten 3-minute films in 2014 based on the theme of home. [13][14][15]

Filmography

TitleSeriesFunder/Broadcaster & DateSeries Description
ProducerRising DustNew Zealand Film Commission 2013Short Film
Producer/DirectorRethinking RehabMaori Television 2013-14Documentary
Executive ProducerLoading DocsNew Zealand On Air 2013-14Documentary
Producer/DirectorBoth Worlds Series 2TV3 (New Zealand) 2013Ten-part documentary series
ProducerDiveNew Zealand Film Commission 2012Short Film
ProducerFriday TigersNew Zealand Film Commission 2012Short Film
ProducerRestoring HopeMaori Television 201252 minute documentary
ProducerBoth WorldsTV3 2012Ten-part documentary series
ProducerHitch HikeNew Zealand Film Commission 2011Short Film
ProducerHenare O’KeefeMaori Television 201152 minute documentary on Henare O’Keefe
ProducerBring Your Boots, Oz Series 2Maori Television 2011Thirteen-part factual entertainment series
ProducerBring Your Boots, Oz Series 1Maori Television 2011Thirteen-part factual entertainment series
ProducerO WhakaaroMāori Television 2010Twenty six-part talk show
ProducerHauora a iwi WhanganuiMāori Television 2010Thirteen part observational documentary
Producer / DirectorMinority VoicesTVNZ TV ONE 2009Ten-part factual documentary series
ProducerRiki Ellison: The DefenderMāori Television 200960 min documentary
Producer / Post DirectorNgāti NRL Series 1 – 10Māori TelevisionThirteen-part sports entertainment series 2004-09
ProducerWayne Anderson: Singer of Songs, Series 1 & 2TVNZ TV2 & Prime (New Zealand TV channel) 2006 & 2008Seven-part comedy series
Producer / Post DirectorRelocated MountainsNHK (Japan), Link TV (U.S.), Māori Television 200860 min documentary
Line ProducerRockin’ RowlesTVNZ TV3 200860 min Inside the life on John Rowles New Zealand documentary
Producer / DirectorKaihoe WāhineMāori Television 2008Seven-part documentary series
Line ProducerHauora Ngāti PorouMāori Television 2006 & 2007Series 1 & 2 Thirteen-part observational documentary series
Producer / DirectorMātātahiMāori Television 2007Seven-part youth magazine series
Producer / WriterHauora Hokianga, Series 1 & 2Māori Television 2004 & 2005Thirteen-part observational documentary
Producer / DirectorTe Haerenga series 1, 2 & 3Māori Television 2004 & 2005Thirteen part youth documentary series

References

  1. ↑ Julia Parnell IMDB Retrieved June 2012
  2. ↑ New Zealand Women In Film & Television Awards Archived 23 August 2010 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 8 September 2010
  3. ↑ Miss Indian NZ Retrieved 8 September 2010
  4. ↑ NZ on Air Press Release 2011.10.13 Archived 15 April 2012 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved June 2012
  5. ↑ NZ on Air Press Release 2012.05.10 Archived 8 February 2013 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved June 2012
  6. ↑ HRC Newsletter 2012.06 Archived 2 September 2012 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved June 2012
  7. ↑ (http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=10879382)
  8. ↑ Tauihu Media Projects Retrieved June 2012
  9. ↑ WIFT NZ - Six New Shorts Green Lit for Funding Archived 23 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved June 2012
  10. ↑ NZ Film Short Film Financing Archived 15 August 2012 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved June 2012
  11. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 5 October 2013. Retrieved 2013-10-03.
  12. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 4 October 2013. Retrieved 2013-10-03.
  13. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 4 October 2013. Retrieved 2013-10-03.
  14. ↑
  15. ↑ Yates, Siena (2016-08-04). "Loading Docs provides 'small stories which pack big punch'". New Zealand Herald. ISSN 1170-0777. Retrieved 2016-09-22.
  • 2. Relocated Mountains. A New Wave, Documentary Magazine, 2007, p. 23,24.
  • 3. Relocated Mountains. MTS Kurds doco to screen internationally, ONFILM production magazine, 2007, p. 9, 28

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