Ant Timpson

Since the mid 80s Timpson has worked in every facet of the film industry from managing an arthouse programming for MGM creating short film events running driveins to producing television and feature films operating devolved government film funds and mentoring filmmakers His distribution company released specialist fare starting with Slacker in 1993 He launched the The Incredibly Strange Film Festival in 1994 that merged with the New Zealand International Film Festival His national film competition 48HOURS with Peter Jackson as mentor began in 2003 and exposed talent such as Taika Waititi Jo Jo Rabbit Roseanne Liang Shadow in the Cloud and Gerard Johnstone M3GAN As a producer he created the hit horror anthology series The ABCs of Death TIFF 2013 and the following features The Devil Dared Me To SXSW 2006 Housebound SXSW 14 Turbo Kid Sundance 15 Deathgasm SXSW 15 The Greasy Strangler Sundance 16 The Field Guide to Evil SXSW 18 Censor Tribeca 21 Mister Organ 22 Family Dinner Tribeca 22 He recently directed the critically acclaimed feature Come to Daddy Tribeca 2020 starring Elijah Wood He recently directed Bookworm 2024 EPd She Loved Blossoms More 2024 and Ebony Ivory 2025 and God Bless You Mr Kopu 2027 When Darkness Loves Us 2027 He was the inaugural recipient of New Zealands Art Entrepreneur Award and was a Board member of the New Zealand Film Commission His 35mm print archive is the largest personal film archive in the Southern Hemisphere