Chelsea Winstanley
Chelsea Winstanley | |
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Born | 1975/1976 (age 45–46)[1] |
Occupation | Film producer |
Spouse(s) | |
Children | 3 |
Chelsea Winstanley is a New Zealand film producer. She is best known for producing short films and documentaries which celebrate the Indigenous peoples.[2] She also produced the films What We Do in the Shadows and Jojo Rabbit.
Career[]
Winstanley has Ngāti Ranginui and Ngāi Te Rangi ancestry through her mother.[3]
She has produced short films such as Meathead, Ebony Society and Night Shift. In 2014, she co-produced What We Do in the Shadows with Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement. She also co-produced Te Whakarauora Tangata and a documentary about Merata Mita.[4]
She won the 2014 SPADA Screen Industry Awards Independent Producer of the Year (shared with Taika Waititi).[5] In 2015, Winstanley was the New Zealand Women in Film and Television's Mana Wahine recipient at Wairoa's Maori Film Festival.[6]
She directed the documentary Toi Tū Toi Ora – Visual Sovereignty.[7]
Personal life[]
At age 20, Winstanley had a son, Maia, whom she raised as a single mother.[3]
She married New Zealand director Taika Waititi in 2011. They have two daughters.[8][9] They separated in 2018.[10]
References[]
- ^ "Chelsea Winstanley Opens Up About Her Childhood Sexual Abuse And How Husband Taika Waititi Helped Her Heal". Now To Love.
- ^ "Chelsea Winstanley is taking Indigenous women directors global". nowtoronto.com. 23 October 2019. Retrieved 19 June 2021.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Chelsea Winstanley Opens Up About Her Childhood Sexual Abuse And How Husband Taika Waititi Helped Her Heal". Now To Love. Retrieved 28 July 2019.
- ^ "Chelsea Winstanley - NZ On Screen".
- ^ "Chelsea Winstanley - NZ On Screen".
- ^ "The Diary: Second baby on the way for Taika". 3 June 2015 – via New Zealand Herald.
- ^ "Chelsea Winstanley to Direct Māori Art Doc "Toi Tu Toi Ora – Visual Sovereignty"". 7 July 2020. Retrieved 19 July 2021.
- ^ Powley, Kathryn (3 June 2012). "Girl, not Boy, for director dad". The New Zealand Herald. Archived from the original on 5 July 2015. Retrieved 5 February 2015.
- ^ "Day One on Thor: Ragnarok". Taika Waititi. 6 July 2016. Retrieved 6 May 2018.
- ^ "Taika Waititi and Chelsea Winstanley Separated". New Zealand Herald. 14 March 2020.
External links[]
- 1970s births
- Living people
- New Zealand film producers
- Ngāti Ranginui
- Ngāi Te Rangi
- New Zealand Māori film producers
- New Zealand women film producers
- New Zealand Māori women