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Crew 16
Becca Barnes has just been signed up to write a 12-part radio drama series for Radio New Zealand.  Congrats to you Ms Barnes.

This comes very soon after the publication of First Act, a collection of (as it says) first acts of four screenplays by Whitireia graduates in screenwriting, all coincidentally (or not) Film School grads:  Becca, James Henley and Alwyn Dale all from c16, and Ness Simons from 21.    The collection is a tribute to the wonderful Graeme Tetley, who tutored both at Film School and at Whitireia, and has a foreword by Gaylene Preston, pictured here with our/their graduates on launch night.

Crew 15
Rose Youmans is doing her second season on True Blood (Hollywood!) in the art department.    As a result of working for free on short films in the space between she is also being offered lots of other work - karma.  See how it works? Good system.

Crew 20
Mark Jackson continues to do a stunning job as The Film School's technician, while possible cousin Paul Jackson spent much of last year lighting on The Hobbit, soon after winning the 2011 Kodak Filmschools Cinematography Award for his work on Devil's Door to Heaven.  Josh K is now a rotoscope artist at Weta Digital, while Josh O reckons he's returning to the UK soon to take up a job offer as a DIT (details soon).  Late last year Pavel, Helmut and Joe scored NZFC 'Fresh Shorts' funding for their next short, working title The God Painter in Kiwi Kingdom.  There's a screening of their most recent short, Weekend Graffiti at the Paramount on Saturday 28 January.

Crew 21
Malcolm Weekes is working for an independent film company in Los Angeles, and he says it's a type of apprenticeship where he helps with editing and casting etc.    A large proportion of c21 seem to have left Aotearoa - Isla in New York, Charlee and Kaylen in LA, Alastair in Melbourne, Sarah also in Australia.  Amber is somewhere in the US and Emma is heading for the UK in March.   Tristan has been keeping the homefires burning and has had a couple of gigs with Gibson Group, the most recent on their Fresh Meat feature, directed by Film School visiting tutor Danny Mulheron, which wound up just before Xmas.

Crew 22
Nikita went in to apply for a camera internship and came out as co-producer on a short in Auckland, Maumahara - Remember Who You Are.  If Crew 21 have all taken off overseas, Crew 22 seem to be departing for Dorkers in a big way - Sam S and Duncan are both heading there soon.  Tim is already there, tutoring in Sculpture and Production Design at the Cut Above Academy.    Elliot is editing music vids for Samoan singing star Felise Mikaele.