Owner / Producer / Festival Director

James’ 18 years of screen experience includes roles as Producer, Executive Producer, Distributor and Film Festival Director.

Serving as Producer on both New Zealand and international productions, James’ credits include Shanghai International Film Festival and Chinese Oscar-nominated films The Turn of the Screw and Eternity.

James is the Founder and Festival Director of the internationally-recognised Terror-Fi Film Festival, New Zealand’s premier genre festival.

James has several feature films in development with Admit One Entertainment and Terror-Fi Films, the festival’s new genre film production arm. He also represents other feature film IP in market.

Producer

Sam has over a decade of screen production experience. She has worked with Adam Sandler at Happy Madison and Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman at Playtone. Sam has also worked with several independent screen production companies in North America.

As a business partner in Admit One Entertainment, Sam has several feature films and a television series in development. She also represents feature film IP in market.

Based in Toronto, Sam is currently building co-production opportunities between Canada, the US, the UK, Australia and New Zealand.

Strategist / Producer

Nicci Lock has worked in the screen industry, education and government sectors for over 25 years, and brings both strategic and hands-on production experience across all aspects of the sector; including sound post, animation, VFX and interactive media content and technology experience.

Over the last decade Nicci has been an advocate and lobbyist for the screen sector, working to reinforce and champion New Zealand’s creative tech sector as a key economic, social and cultural driver in education and across central and local government.

Nicci is focused the intersections, opportunities and barriers that exist between the screen and creative technology industry and education.