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Legal Fiction Films Legal Fiction Ltd. is currently producing its latest short film 'Canvass'.

Directed by David Hay and starring Meg Sydenham, Jack Barry, Ryan O'Kane and Thomas Sainsbury.

BTS… are they messaging each other? 📸 Joanna Livingston Photography
06/08/2021

BTS… are they messaging each other?
📸 Joanna Livingston Photography

Ever wondered what an awesome producer looks like? Well, wonder no more.
01/08/2021

Ever wondered what an awesome producer looks like? Well, wonder no more.

An unexpected visitor joined us for lunch one day 🦖📸: Ryan O'Kane
27/07/2021

An unexpected visitor joined us for lunch one day 🦖

📸: Ryan O'Kane

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14/07/2021

Caption this...?

Now to introduce some of the crew who are joining us for post production!Meet the team: Nick Buckton as sound designer a...
08/07/2021

Now to introduce some of the crew who are joining us for post production!

Meet the team: Nick Buckton as sound designer and mixer🎙

Nick Buckton is an award-winning sound designer/re-recording mixer with 20 years experience across film, documentary, television drama, animation, and music. Working out of Native Audio in Auckland, his recent feature film credits include Savage, Shadow in the Cloud, The Dark Horse, Guns Akimbo, N**e Tuesday, There Is No I In Th*****me, and James & Isey.

When he’s allowed out of his dark cave, Nick likes to watch test match cricket, draw Pokemon with his 7 year old son Otto and to make music. He’s a member of cult indie band Voom, who are due to release a new record through Flying Nun Records next year. Nick also releases his own music under his moniker sidekicknick.

Nick fumbled his way into the film sound post biz via his love of music and all things noise-y. Having classical musicians as parents and a glam rock guitarist for an older brother, his formative years were confusing. However, access to a 4-track cassette machine in the school holidays combined with an expansive imagination, was the catalyst for what was to come. Turns out that playing with noise was fun.

Find out more about Voom: https://www.facebook.com/voomnz/

And listen to 'You Can Now, Fly' by sidekicknick: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inQhQ3IfaGI

Ladder not required when your name is Max Quinn
30/06/2021

Ladder not required when your name is Max Quinn

A huge thank you to NZ Fight And Fitness Academy for helping Meg and Jack prep for their fight scene before the shoot 🥊T...
24/06/2021

A huge thank you to NZ Fight And Fitness Academy for helping Meg and Jack prep for their fight scene before the shoot 🥊

They have a huge number of classes for various abilities and you can get a free day pass to try them out. Highly recommended for a lot of fun whilst getting fit 😊

More information available on their website: https://www.fightandfitnessacademy.com/classes

Meet the team: Ciara Mare as Assistant Hair and Make Up Artist Ciara helped Shayne on set, particularly on the days with...
14/06/2021

Meet the team: Ciara Mare as Assistant Hair and Make Up Artist

Ciara helped Shayne on set, particularly on the days with our wonderful extras!

Ciara is also an actor which she got into through theatre when she was 9 years old. Since then, she has been in countless theatre productions in South Africa, New Zealand and Europe where she is from. She made the jump to screen in 2010 doing adverts in South Africa as well as some voice work. More recently, she has worked on Musicals such as “ Heathers” and “Clue on stage” and was involved in array of projects with South Island Media where she tried her hand in producing and directing as well as acting.

In her spare time, she is usually with her 3 children or freelancing as a makeup artist.

With the shoot now wrapped, we have a few more introductions to make... starting with the fabulous Shayne Milne!Meet the...
07/06/2021

With the shoot now wrapped, we have a few more introductions to make... starting with the fabulous Shayne Milne!

Meet the team: Shayne Milne as Hair and Make Up Artist 💄

Shayne grew up in Auckland and moved to Dunedin at the age of 18 to go through law school. She was admitted to the bar in 2012 and practiced property and commercial law for eight years before making the bold decision to leave law and finally pursue her lifelong passion of makeup artistry. She hasn’t looked back since!

Shayne has her own business and does special occasion makeup like weddings and graduations on the weekends. She also does makeup regularly for a few of the local fashion shows - Zonta, Otago Polytech, Fashion For A Cure and some work for Aart on St Andrew. She has recently been doing makeup for the local production of Les Miserables which she throughly enjoys.

Shayne still does a bit of legal work in the way of teaching law graduates. She is the sort of person who just has to keep busy so enjoys splitting her time between her two loves - law and makeup!

You'll have seen Shayne's incredible artistry already on our amazing cast but you can see more of her work on her page: Shayne Milne MUA
And instagram:

Whoops 😬 📸: Paul Fox
01/06/2021

Whoops 😬

📸: Paul Fox

And that’s a wrap! 🎬Thank you so much to all of our fabulous cast, crew and supporters for helping to bring Canvass to l...
17/05/2021

And that’s a wrap! 🎬

Thank you so much to all of our fabulous cast, crew and supporters for helping to bring Canvass to life.

Now for the wrap party.... 🎉

As we come to the end of the shoot, we want to say a massive thank you to our Exec Producer Brett Mills at Queenstown Ca...
17/05/2021

As we come to the end of the shoot, we want to say a massive thank you to our Exec Producer Brett Mills at Queenstown Camera Company for his incredibly generous support in supplying us with a huge amount of extremely high quality gear. This epic package includes an Arri Mini, Zeiss master primes, cinetape, LMB4x5 Matte box, shape handles, Sachtler tripod, WCU4 and an HD 703 monitor.

The attached photos show some of this gear in action 🎥

We could not have made the film without him and his generosity and we will be forever grateful to him and Queenstown Camera Company for their support.

Thank you Brett! 🥰

A huge thank you to Hirepool Ltd for their support and for providing us with a portaloo for the duration of the shoot. A...
16/05/2021

A huge thank you to Hirepool Ltd for their support and for providing us with a portaloo for the duration of the shoot. As the bathroom in the house was used as part of the set, this was much needed! We are so grateful for their generosity 🥰

A huge shout out to our fabulous hair and make up team, Shayne and Ciara, who did an incredible job today with all the c...
16/05/2021

A huge shout out to our fabulous hair and make up team, Shayne and Ciara, who did an incredible job today with all the cast and eleven extras!

We've just wrapped on day three of the shoot which featured our lovely journo extras! We are so grateful for their time ...
16/05/2021

We've just wrapped on day three of the shoot which featured our lovely journo extras! We are so grateful for their time and talent today 🥰

📷: Joanna Livingston Photography

Jedis on set.📷: Ryan O'Kane
16/05/2021

Jedis on set.

📷: Ryan O'Kane

And on that note, a huge thank you to our offsite manager Lucy who has been heating and serving up all the delicious foo...
15/05/2021

And on that note, a huge thank you to our offsite manager Lucy who has been heating and serving up all the delicious food from YourProChef.nz and Dayle who has been helping her today as well as baking for the cast and crew 🥰 We couldn't do it without you!

A huge shout out to Karl at YourProChef.nz who is catering for the shoot with delicious and nutritious warm meals for ca...
15/05/2021

A huge shout out to Karl at YourProChef.nz who is catering for the shoot with delicious and nutritious warm meals for cast and crew! Thank you so much for the yummy food which is keeping everyone going 🥰

Day Two!Tom Sainsbury is about to go live as ‘The Voice’ 🎙 Follow along on Instagram for more:
14/05/2021

Day Two!

Tom Sainsbury is about to go live as ‘The Voice’ 🎙

Follow along on Instagram for more:

Reviewing the shot with stunt coordinator Rodney Cook 🥊 Thanks to everyone who came to Rodney’s amazing workshop last ni...
14/05/2021

Reviewing the shot with stunt coordinator Rodney Cook 🥊

Thanks to everyone who came to Rodney’s amazing workshop last night which was supported by Ara Toi, Dunedin City Council ✨

With the shoot getting underway today, we want to say a huge thank you to Common Ground Espresso for providing us with a...
13/05/2021

With the shoot getting underway today, we want to say a huge thank you to Common Ground Espresso for providing us with amazing fresh coffee and the hardware to serve up the goods! We couldn't do it without you 🥰

Meet the crew: Nicholas Dodd as our DIT 💻In his own words, Nick is 'happier being in the background'. He walked into NHN...
13/05/2021

Meet the crew: Nicholas Dodd as our DIT 💻

In his own words, Nick is 'happier being in the background'. He walked into NHNZ about two and a half years ago, looking for a break from hospitality and has been trying to keep himself useful there ever since. In his spare time, he likes reading, indoor plants and of course film.

Mel getting tattooed by Mel!Jack (who plays Mel) had some amazing tattoos drawn on him today by the incredible Mel Child...
12/05/2021

Mel getting tattooed by Mel!

Jack (who plays Mel) had some amazing tattoos drawn on him today by the incredible Mel Child from Flux Tattoo. These will fade but look great for the duration of the shoot which starts tomorrow!

Thanks so much Mel for your fantastic work 🥰

You can see more of her work on her instagram:
As well as on Flux's page tagged above and their instagram:

The cast and crew got together for a production meeting before the shoot in a couple of days 🎬
12/05/2021

The cast and crew got together for a production meeting before the shoot in a couple of days 🎬

Meet the cast: our lovely extras as our pack of journos! 🎭Completing the cast announcements, it is a pleasure to introdu...
12/05/2021

Meet the cast: our lovely extras as our pack of journos! 🎭

Completing the cast announcements, it is a pleasure to introduce some of our extras who will be part of the group of story-hungry journalists following Meg Sydenham's Flora!

Meko Ng, born and raised in Hong Kong, came to New Zealand in 2016. She is a third year student at the University of Otago, working towards her Bachelor of Arts majoring in Theatre Studies. As a singer, actor and dancer, Meko has performed in a huge variety of shows and while most of her shows in the past have been theatre work, Meko has recently started getting involved with more screen work, taking up her first role as an extra in an upcoming Netflix film, The Royal Treatment.

Jared Mason has worked as a camera operator in the TV industry for 20+ years in both NZ and Australia. He has mostly shot news and current affairs but in Australia, was involved with an international travel show and reality TV. He has travelled the world extensively for work including covering US elections and The NZ defence force in Afghanistan for 60minutes. He has three New Zealand film and Television awards for news and current affairs camera work.

Janette Rust is a young artist from South Africa who moved to New Zealand to pursue a career in acting. She is currently a full time retail assistant, but her heart belongs to the stage.

Catherine Mackmurdie studied acting at South Seas Film and Television School and has a background mainly in theatre. After a few years out of the industry, she has recently thrown herself back into it with rigour and is excited to be back on a film set.
In her spare time, you'll find Catherine in any Dunedin theatre production she can get herself involved in because to her there's nothing more magical, fun and invigorating than a theatre.

Jason Holden is somewhat new to the film industry but has been lucky enough to work on some local business promotional videos and campaigns as well as being a featured extra in a handful of movies which ignited his passion for acting.

Meet the team: Dominic Fryer as DOP 🎥Dominic has been a DOP for nearly fifteen years, working on projects with NZ’s most...
11/05/2021

Meet the team: Dominic Fryer as DOP 🎥

Dominic has been a DOP for nearly fifteen years, working on projects with NZ’s most renowned film-makers – including Annie Goldson, Justin Pemberton, Leanne Pooley and David Farrier.

In 2016, Dominic shot Sundance hit Tickled with David Farrier. In 2017, he followed up with feature documentary Kim Dotcom: Caught in the Web which premiered at SXSW and in 2018, he completed filming on Netflix series Dark Tourist.
Dominic brings the technicality of a seasoned stills photographer and the story-telling of a true documentarian.

He also worked on David Hay's Hot Chocolate and we are thrilled to have him back!

Meet the team: Abram Hunter as Set Decorator/Art Assist 🎨It is a great pleasure to introduce the final member of our des...
10/05/2021

Meet the team: Abram Hunter as Set Decorator/Art Assist 🎨

It is a great pleasure to introduce the final member of our design team: Abe Hunter.

Abe is also fresh off the set of the Netflix production "The Royal Treatment" where he worked alongside our Production Designer Dallas as a Set Decorator Assist. Previously, Abe worked as a product designer and architectural model maker for the Dunedin company Architecture Van Brandenburg. Abe is also the editor of new Zealand's greatest comic anthology magazine "Battle Magazine" which is published in Dunedin by General utility and stocked in comic stores throughout the country.

In his spare time, Abe has a sculpture practice mainly focused on producing resin action figures, Abe's work has exhibited in Dunedin, Auckland and New York.

You can check out more of his work on his instagram page and the comic anthology .

With support from Dunedin City Council, we are thrilled to offer a free stunt workshop with SGNZ graded Stunt Coordinato...
09/05/2021

With support from Dunedin City Council, we are thrilled to offer a free stunt workshop with SGNZ graded Stunt Coordinator Rodney Cook on Thursday 13th May (6-8pm) at InterACT Drama Classes.

This workshop is a free introduction to stunts for performers and filmmakers. Rodney Cook has over 150 national and international film credits to his name, working with industry icons such as Peter Jackson, James Cameron, Oliver Stone and Jane Campion. You can see his work in Savage, Justice League, Wellington Paranormal, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon and The Hobbit to name a few.

Don't miss this incredible free opportunity! Spaces are limited so email [email protected] to book yours.

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