Candlelit Pictures

30/08/2024

OMG 😱 WE’RE OFF TO SCREAMFEST TEAM 🤩🤩🤩

🛸📽👽Help I'm Alien Pregnant will screen at ScreamFest LA - so that's cool

15/08/2024

Friends, we’re making a very exciting feature film called ‘Mum, I’m Alien Pregnant’, and we’re looking for some featured extras. If that sounds like something you’d be interested in please fill in this form 👽 sorry, you have to sign into Google for this, so that you can send us a photo of you 🛸

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06/06/2024

Candlelit Pictures have been collaborating with our friends at The Hot House, and Leopold Wave to bring THUNDERLIPS' new short film Help, I'm Alien Pregnant to the screen. Some really exciting news about this project will be dropping very soon on THUNDERLIPS socials. Here they are, give them a follow!

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14/12/2022

You can now watch Anna Rose Duckworth's short PAIN on the NZ Film on Demand platform for just $1.99! If you've been meaning to watch this killer short, get onto it now!

New to the NZ Film On Demand platform this week – Pain (2020).

A young girl has an earth-shattering realisation that her father is not invincible, after a cricket accident exposes his vulnerability.

Pain is written and directed by Anna Rose Duckworth and produced by Ilai Amar.

Pain had its world premiere at the 2020 Whānau Marama New Zealand International Film Festival and has screened at a number of significant local and international film festivals - including Busan International Short Film Festival 2021, South Korea and Aspen Shortsfest 2021, USA.

Pain also won the Critics' Choice Award at the 2022 Melbourne Women in Film Festival, and the Best International Short Film Award at the 2022 Sanfici - Santander Festival International De Cine Independiente in Colombia. Find Pain's full festival attendance list here: https://www.lightsonfilm.com/pain.html

Pain is distributed by Italian distribution company Lights On.

Watch the film on NZ Film On Demand now: https://ondemand.nzfilm.co.nz/film/pain/

27/09/2022

on the set of

📷 Frances Carter

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19/09/2022

Ending Violence is now free to watch on VIMEO 🤩🤩
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A is short impact documentary. Ending Violence tells an intimate story of how Botswana is leading the world in violence prevention education, through the eyes of…

03/06/2022

WAHOO 🥳🥳🥳🥳 Congratulations Jordan Mark Windsor, Angella Dravid, and Tim Fletcher!!! 🤩

28/04/2022

Rent or Buy our Short Film DANIEL at Vimeo On Demand this weekend! 🥳

This short film has played at a great many impressive festivals over the last few years, and writer/director Claire van Beek won the 'Emerging Talent' award for this film at NZIFF in 2020 - so you know it's gonna be good 😘

https://vimeo.com/ondemand/danielshortfilm

A young novice at an isolated convent is confronted with the sudden desire to explore her sexual self in the wake of meeting a blue-tongued lizard. Melbourne…

26/04/2022

Some choice BTS photos from DANIEL. The cast and crew behind this film went above and beyond, and we are incredibly grateful for their collaboration, artistry and commitment to the vision. Thank you!

Edith Poor and Matt Whelan, thank you for your work on this film! Simon Baumfield, our cinematographer, you were such fun. Production Designer Kate Logan, phenomenal work. Costume Designer extraordinaire Rosie Remmerswaal. 1st AD Sez Niederer, you worked so incredibly hard to help us achieve this, thank you! Editors John Gilbert and Conan Mornard-Stott, we feel so lucky to have collaborated with you. Nikora Edwards, best sound recordist in NZ, thank you for taking the time to come and work with us on this! Incredible original Score by Indira Force. Colour by the queen of colour, Alana Cotton 😍 and to all of the rest of the cast and crew, you know who you are, THANK YOU for your work to make this film happen 🙌💚

24/04/2022

An interview with writer/director of DANIEL, Claire van Beek at the Clermont-Ferrand Short Filmfestival in 2020, just before the work locked down... ahhh, the before times.

https://vimeo.com/398276123?embedded=true&source=vimeo_logo&owner=61738867

Découvrez l’interview de la cinéaste néo-zélandaise Claire Van Beek à propos de son court métrage "Daniel"…

23/04/2022

Claire van Beek won the Emerging Talent Award for her short film DANIEL at Whānau Mārama NZ International Film Festival in 2020, here's a wonderful interview she did with Lynn Freeman on Nine to Noon at RNZ. A quality listen over your morning coffee, either before or after having watched the short itself 😘

https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/audio/2018757212/claire-van-beek-daniel

Film director and winner at this year's Whānau Mārama NZ International Film Festiva Claire van Beek has won the Emerging Talent Award for her short film Daniel.

21/04/2022

Our short film DANIEL is finally available to rent online! Planning to watch a movie this evening or long weekend? Why not start with a short film! https://vimeo.com/ondemand/danielshortfilm

21/12/2021

🥳 CONGRATULATIONS THUNDERLIPS! 🤩 And a massive thank you to the NZ Film Commission for this funding! 😍

Catalyst He Kauahi supports New Zealand filmmakers to progress their talents to the next stage and make exceptional, high end narrative short films that will ignite the flame and be the catalyst for change in their career.

11/10/2021

Congratulations to THUNDERLIPS! And thank you Script to Screen! We are thrilled to be coming to Story Camp this year 🥳🥳🥳

We would like to introduce to you the talented filmmakers and their projects selected for Story Camp Aotearoa 2021.
Thank you to all the filmmakers who applied.
⁠Script to Screen received 76 applications. Three experienced independent practitioners went through a rigorous selection process compiling a shortlist of 19 and ultimately selected nine projects.⁠

These projects, with 12 writers and their collaborators will workshop their feature films over one week at a residential lab tailored to meet their specific development needs in Port Waikato.
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Congratulations to the filmmakers whose feature film projects will be developed at Story Camp Aotearoa 2021:⁠
(writers pictured from left to right)

🎞️ Blood and Gold
Writer: Jodie Hillock
Producer: Morgan Leigh Stewart

🎞️ Golden Years
Writer/Directors: Jordan Windsor, Sean Wallace
Producers: Alix Whittaker, Ilai Amar, Morgan Leigh Stewart

🎞️ Koha
Writer/Director: Paula Whetu Jones
Cinematographer: Bevan Crothers

🎞️ Maria, Take a Bow
Writer/Director: Martin Sagadin
Writer: Alayne Dick
Producer: Alex Reed, Emma Mortimer

🎞️ Shopping for Bullets
Writer/Directors: Moe Laga, Tanu Gago

🎞️ Refuge
Writer: Arlo Green
Director: Max Currie

🎞️ Siouxsie with an X
Director: Gwen Isaac
Producers: Phillida Perry, Alex Reed
Editor: John Silvester

🎞️ Tears for the Strong
Writer/Director: Vela Manusaute

🎞️ Shanti
Writer/Director: Bala Murali Shingade

To learn more about the participants and Story Camp
↪️ https://script-to-screen.co.nz/development-programmes/story-camp/

Story Camp Aotearoa is a nationwide programme. This year participants will attend from Auckland, Tauranga, Wellington, Nelson and Christchurch. If delivery of the workshop is not possible due to Covid-19 restrictions, a part of the workshop will be delivered online in November with the residential component moving to February 2022.

Story Camp is made possible thanks to funding from the NZ Film Commission and additional support from the US Embassy New Zealand

13/09/2021

International travel may be much trickier now but that hasn't stopped our short film PAIN from traveling around the world! PAIN is currently playing in Washington DC at the DC Shorts International Film Festival. And has recently played in Italy🇮🇹, Romania🇷🇴, Bosnia and Herzgovina, Colombia🇨🇴, Kosovo🇽🇰, Indonesia🇮🇩!

Coming up we are playing in Austria🇦🇹, Germany🇩🇪, Sweden🇸🇪, Lebanon🇱🇧 and MORE! Can you believe it!?

Thanks again to absolutely everyone who supported this film in any way! 😍

PAIN
Written and Directed by Anna Rose Duckworth
Produced by Ilai Amar (Elo Amoo / Leopold Wave)
A young girl has an earth-shattering realisation that her father is not invincible after a cricket accident exposes his vulnerability.
Pain Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zZNiLRwdQ8

08/09/2021

A short doco directed by Todd Karehana and produced by Samantha Dutton - watch it over here https://youtu.be/IhEb_alFjjI

Read more about Night Ride and the Loading Docs initiative over at https://loadingdocs.net/nightride/

11/06/2021

Wanna buy some dolls? 😍

80-year-old Aucklander Edith Gibson's doll collection spans 3000 toys, all of which take up her small Mt Albert home.

01/06/2021

Daisy Vasquez did an interview with RNZ about her short documentary Edith Gibson Has 3000 Dolls - you can watch it at Doc Edge from 4th June-11th July: https://docedge.nz/de/films/edith-gibson-has-3000-dolls/

Shoutouts to Samantha Dutton & Chillbox Creative who produced this film alongside us.

Edith Gibson lives in the heart of suburban Auckland with her collection of 3,000 Dolls, repairing and caring for them. In a short documentary Edith invites you into her home, shares her prized dolls, and imparts pro tips and tricks for repairing these beauties to their former glory. Kathryn speaks....