Macademy Awards 2023

Fifteen student short films will be screened, and Macademy Awards for best film, director, script, performance, cinematography, editing/sound presented.

These awards are being determined by artists from the New Zealand film/TV industry: Nahyeon Lee (writer/director: Kainga), Acushla Tara-Kupe (actress: The Gone), Paul Waggott (actor: Shortland Street) and former Macleans College student Isabella Giommarelli (Te Kanawa House 2011 – 2015) (producer/writer/director/editor on various projects). Additionally, there will also be an Audience Choice Award voted for and awarded on the night.

Congratulations to the production teams of this year’s films:

• ‘24th July’ - Madison Buckley (Rutherford House)
• ‘Battle to Cook’ - Tommy Duan (Rutherford)
• ‘Beyond Farewell’ - Meagan Maritz (Mansfield), Erica O'Neill (Upham) and Troy Telfer (Rutherford)
• ‘Bigfoot Isn't Real’ - Phoebe James (Upham) and Mamta Kumari (Upham)
• ‘Bloom’ - Zoe Barrett (Upham)
• ‘A Ghostly Connection’ - Jude Al Shaer (Snell) and Flora Browne (Te Kanawa)
• ‘Good Enough’ - Chloe Lam (Upham) and Ivy Xu (Kupe)
• ‘Look Behind You’ - Isaac Han (Hillary), Daniel Kang (Upham), Ella Qiang (Snell) and Ellen Wu (Batten)
• ‘Love You To Death’ - Mischa Inglis (Snell) and Molly Pakenham (Kupe)
• ‘Operation Olivia’ - Trent Spencer (Te Kanawa) and Josh Falconer (Upham)
• ‘Sandcastle’ - Ivy Feng (Rutherford)
• ‘Spot’ - Ela Meiring (Batten) and Liliana Relf (Te Kanawa)
• ‘A Super Scary Movie’ - Ben Kirman (Batten) and Brody Padfield (Te Kanawa)
• ‘You're Trolling’ - Lemond Chak (Hillary), Logan McKay (Rutherford) and Raymond Zhou (Kupe)
• ‘Teine Sa’ - Madison Alanotama (Te Kanawa), Sulieti Fangupo (Hillary) and Lucy Priestley (Rutherford)