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WRITER/DIRECTOR: KIRSTIN MARCON
After growing up in rural New Zealand it seems this debut feature film director has been on a
trajectory to reach this point in her career for many years.
Kirstin is an energetic and charismatic director, who firmly believes the more lightning you can trap in
the bottle, the better. She is a talented writer with a deeply subversive voice, drawn to create moments
of sweet romance meshed with turmoil. Her idea of a good story is bold, primal and most of all
entertaining. She has fought hard to keep this film an unapologetically biased story about an
anti-hero; a fully rounded experience that takes him and the audience to the brink of his journey.
Kirstin attended film school in the Waikato. Following film school she branched out into student
radio and music magazines, eventually becoming a graphic designer. She returned to study at the
Elam School of Fine Arts in her early twenties, and after the birth of her son worked in advertising.
Over the years she has kept her passion for making films, whether it be art school projects,
48Hour film competition entries, Film Commission shorts, or making Lego animations with her son.
Her 35mm short film She’s Racing was in Competition at Edinburgh, Torino, and Chicago where
it won a Silver Plaque, and was selected for the honour of being screened at the Telluride Festival
before Australian indie hit Chopper. Her next short Picnic Stops went to Hof, Germany; Expression
en Corto, Mexico; and the 27th International Women’s Film Festival of Créteil, France.
She was a selected participant of the Berlin Talent Campus, studied the Meisner technique of
acting, and is a committed daydreamer.
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Director Kirstin Marcon on set the day the crew shot her favourite scene: smashing the telly.