Philippa Campbell
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Philippa Campbell is a New Zealand
film producer, dramaturg and the Literary Manager of the Auckland Theatre Company
. Her production company is Escapade Pictures.
in 1955 and grew up in Lower Hutt
and Wellington
, New Zealand
. Campbell attended Hutt Valley High School
, has a B.A. in English Literature from Victoria University of Wellington
and is an acting graduate of Toi Whakaari
: The New Zealand Drama School. She is a fourth generation Pakeha
New Zealander.
Campbell began her career in the theatre as an actor and director in the 1980s. In 1981 she was involved in establishing Taki Rua / The Depot in Wellington, the first professional theatre dedicated to New Zealand theatre and a key venue for bi-cultural performances and development in the 1980s and 1990s.
For several years Campbell ran Television New Zealand / TVNZ’s in-house Drama Department Script Unit. Some of Campbell's script editing credits include New Zealand television shows and feature films such as Mirror, Mirror (1995), Bread and Roses (1993), Maurice Gee
's The Fire Raiser (1986), and the award-winning Erebus
: the Aftermath. In 1988 she departed TVNZ to forge a career in television and film as a writer, script consultant and development executive.
Campbell made a break into producing with the Banff Television Festival nominee for best drama, Swimming Lessons in 1995, written by Simon Wilson and directed by Steve LaHood.
Campbell's first feature film as producer was Via Satellite in 1998 (winner of two New Zealand Screen Awards), written and directed by Anthony McCarten
. She followed up by producing Christine Jeffs
' acclaimed Rain, which premiered in Director’s Fortnight in Cannes
in 2002.
In 2006 Campbell co-produced No. 2 (released in North America
under the title Naming Number Two), written and directed by Toa Fraser
. Starring Academy Award nominee Ruby Dee
, the film won the Audience Award in the 2006 Sundance Film Festival
’s World Cinema Dramatic section, the Audience Award at the Brisbane International Film Festival
, four awards at the New Zealand Film Awards, and featured in gala screenings at the London Film Festival
.
In 2007 Campbell produced Jonathan King
's comic-horror film Black Sheep
, an audience favourite at the Toronto International Film Festival
.
In 2007 she was included in Variety
’s “10 Producers to Watch” list.
Campbell's latest feature film is Florian Habicht
’s 2008 documentary Rubbings From a Live Man, performed by Warwick Broadhead.
More recently, Campbell has produced a short film directed by Dan Salmon, Licked.
Since November 2008 Campbell has been the Literary Manager of the Auckland Theatre Company
.
Philippa Campbell remains dedicated to telling the stories of New Zealand and the South Pacific on stage and screen and continues to pursue a number of creatve projects, including a NZ/UK co-production, The Beach of Falesa, adapted by Alan Sharp
from the novella by Robert Louis Stevenson
, to be directed by Toa Fraser
, and a television drama, Top of the Lake, to be directed by Jane Campion
.
Campbell is married and lives in Auckland, New Zealand. She has two sons.
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
film producer, dramaturg and the Literary Manager of the Auckland Theatre Company
Auckland Theatre Company
Auckland Theatre Company is the largest professional theatre company in Auckland, New Zealand. It was founded in 1992 following the bankruptcy of Mercury Theatre, Auckland's original professional theatre company which had been the largest subsidised company in the country.The current artistic...
. Her production company is Escapade Pictures.
Biography
Philippa Campbell was born in AucklandAuckland
The Auckland metropolitan area , in the North Island of New Zealand, is the largest and most populous urban area in the country with residents, percent of the country's population. Auckland also has the largest Polynesian population of any city in the world...
in 1955 and grew up in Lower Hutt
Lower Hutt
Lower Hutt is a city in the Wellington region of New Zealand. Its council has adopted the name Hutt City Council, but neither the New Zealand Geographic Board nor the Local Government Act recognise the name Hutt City. This alternative name can lead to confusion, as there are two cities in the...
and Wellington
Wellington
Wellington is the capital city and third most populous urban area of New Zealand, although it is likely to have surpassed Christchurch due to the exodus following the Canterbury Earthquake. It is at the southwestern tip of the North Island, between Cook Strait and the Rimutaka Range...
, New Zealand
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
. Campbell attended Hutt Valley High School
Hutt Valley High School
Hutt Valley High School is a state co-educational secondary school located in Lower Hutt, New Zealand. It is a uniformed school, with the uniform coming under review roughly every 5 years by the order of the Board of Trustee’s. The current principal is Ross Sinclair...
, has a B.A. in English Literature from Victoria University of Wellington
Victoria University of Wellington
Victoria University of Wellington was established in 1897 by Act of Parliament, and was a former constituent college of the University of New Zealand. It is particularly well known for its programmes in law, the humanities, and some scientific disciplines, but offers a broad range of other courses...
and is an acting graduate of Toi Whakaari
Toi Whakaari
Toi Whakaari: NZ Drama School is New Zealand's National Drama School. It is located in Wellington, New Zealand Toi Whakaari offers training in Acting, Directing, Costume Construction, Entertainment Technology, Performing Arts Management and Design for Stage & Screen.The School offers the following...
: The New Zealand Drama School. She is a fourth generation Pakeha
Pakeha
Pākehā is a Māori language word for New Zealanders who are "of European descent". They are mostly descended from British and to a lesser extent Irish settlers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, although some Pākehā have Dutch, Scandinavian, German, Yugoslav or other ancestry...
New Zealander.
Campbell began her career in the theatre as an actor and director in the 1980s. In 1981 she was involved in establishing Taki Rua / The Depot in Wellington, the first professional theatre dedicated to New Zealand theatre and a key venue for bi-cultural performances and development in the 1980s and 1990s.
For several years Campbell ran Television New Zealand / TVNZ’s in-house Drama Department Script Unit. Some of Campbell's script editing credits include New Zealand television shows and feature films such as Mirror, Mirror (1995), Bread and Roses (1993), Maurice Gee
Maurice Gee
Maurice Gee is a New Zealand novelist.-Awards and honors:Gee was awarded the 1978 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his novel Plumb...
's The Fire Raiser (1986), and the award-winning Erebus
Erebus
In Greek mythology, Erebus , also Erebos , was often conceived as a primordial deity, representing the personification of darkness; for instance, Hesiod's Theogony places him as the first five beings to come into existence from Chaos...
: the Aftermath. In 1988 she departed TVNZ to forge a career in television and film as a writer, script consultant and development executive.
Campbell made a break into producing with the Banff Television Festival nominee for best drama, Swimming Lessons in 1995, written by Simon Wilson and directed by Steve LaHood.
Campbell's first feature film as producer was Via Satellite in 1998 (winner of two New Zealand Screen Awards), written and directed by Anthony McCarten
Anthony McCarten
-Biography:Born in 1961 in New Plymouth, Anthony McCarten's novels have been translated into 14 languages. His first novel, Spinners , was voted one of the top ten novels of that year by Esquire magazine. His third novel, Death Of A Superhero, won the 2008 Austrian Youth Literature Prize and was a...
. She followed up by producing Christine Jeffs
Christine Jeffs
Christine Jeffs is a New Zealand-born film director known for directing the British motion picture Sylvia, starring Gwyneth Paltrow and Daniel Craig, and the American independent film Sunshine Cleaning , with Amy Adams and Emily Blunt....
' acclaimed Rain, which premiered in Director’s Fortnight in Cannes
Cannes
Cannes is one of the best-known cities of the French Riviera, a busy tourist destination and host of the annual Cannes Film Festival. It is a Commune of France in the Alpes-Maritimes department....
in 2002.
In 2006 Campbell co-produced No. 2 (released in North America
North America
North America is a continent wholly within the Northern Hemisphere and almost wholly within the Western Hemisphere. It is also considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas...
under the title Naming Number Two), written and directed by Toa Fraser
Toa Fraser
Toa Fraser, born in Britain in 1975, of a Fijian father and a British mother, is a playwright and film director. His second feature film, Dean Spanley, starring Sam Neill, Jeremy Northam and Peter O'Toole, premiered in September 2008.-Life:...
. Starring Academy Award nominee Ruby Dee
Ruby Dee
Ruby Dee is an American actress, poet, playwright, screenwriter, journalist, and activist, perhaps best known for co-starring in the film A Raisin in the Sun and the film American Gangster for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.-Early years:Dee was born Ruby...
, the film won the Audience Award in the 2006 Sundance Film Festival
Sundance Film Festival
The Sundance Film Festival is a film festival that takes place annually in Utah, in the United States. It is the largest independent cinema festival in the United States. Held in January in Park City, Salt Lake City, and Ogden, as well as at the Sundance Resort, the festival is a showcase for new...
’s World Cinema Dramatic section, the Audience Award at the Brisbane International Film Festival
Brisbane International Film Festival
Brisbane International Film Festival held in Brisbane provides a focus for film culture in Queensland, Australia. The festival has taken place since 1992 and focuses on films from the Asia-Pacific region. The event offers films including features, documentaries, shorts, experimental, silent films...
, four awards at the New Zealand Film Awards, and featured in gala screenings at the London Film Festival
London Film Festival
The BFI London Film Festival is the UK's largest public film event, screening more than 300 features, documentaries and shorts from almost 50 countries. The festival, , currently in its 54th year, is run every year in the second half of October under the umbrella of the British Film Institute...
.
In 2007 Campbell produced Jonathan King
Jonathan King
Jonathan King is an English singer, songwriter, impresario and record producer. He is also the author of three novels, Bible Two and The Booker Prize Winner , and Beware the Monkey Man , and an autobiography, 65 My Life So Far .King first came to prominence as an...
's comic-horror film Black Sheep
Black Sheep (2007 film)
Black Sheep is a New Zealand made comedy horror film written and directed by Jonathan King. North American distribution rights were acquired by The Weinstein Company and IFC Films. The Weinstein Company released the film on DVD on 9 October 2007 under their Dimension Extreme brand through Genius...
, an audience favourite at the Toronto International Film Festival
Toronto International Film Festival
The Toronto International Film Festival is a publicly-attended film festival held each September in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. In 2010, 339 films from 59 countries were screened at 32 screens in downtown Toronto venues...
.
In 2007 she was included in Variety
Variety (magazine)
Variety is an American weekly entertainment-trade magazine founded in New York City, New York, in 1905 by Sime Silverman. With the rise of the importance of the motion-picture industry, Daily Variety, a daily edition based in Los Angeles, California, was founded by Silverman in 1933. In 1998, the...
’s “10 Producers to Watch” list.
Campbell's latest feature film is Florian Habicht
Florian Habicht
Florian Habicht is a New Zealand film director. Florian was born in 1975 in Berlin, Germany. He moved to New Zealand, with his family to the Bay of Islands, at the age of eight. He went to high school in Kerikeri before attending the University of Auckland's Elam Art school, and graduating in...
’s 2008 documentary Rubbings From a Live Man, performed by Warwick Broadhead.
More recently, Campbell has produced a short film directed by Dan Salmon, Licked.
Since November 2008 Campbell has been the Literary Manager of the Auckland Theatre Company
Auckland Theatre Company
Auckland Theatre Company is the largest professional theatre company in Auckland, New Zealand. It was founded in 1992 following the bankruptcy of Mercury Theatre, Auckland's original professional theatre company which had been the largest subsidised company in the country.The current artistic...
.
Philippa Campbell remains dedicated to telling the stories of New Zealand and the South Pacific on stage and screen and continues to pursue a number of creatve projects, including a NZ/UK co-production, The Beach of Falesa, adapted by Alan Sharp
Alan Sharp
Alan Sharp a novelist and screenwriter. He published two novels in the 1960s, and since then has written the screenplays for about twenty films, mostly produced in the United States....
from the novella by Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer. His best-known books include Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde....
, to be directed by Toa Fraser
Toa Fraser
Toa Fraser, born in Britain in 1975, of a Fijian father and a British mother, is a playwright and film director. His second feature film, Dean Spanley, starring Sam Neill, Jeremy Northam and Peter O'Toole, premiered in September 2008.-Life:...
, and a television drama, Top of the Lake, to be directed by Jane Campion
Jane Campion
Jane Campion is a filmmaker and screenwriter. She is one of the most internationally successful New Zealand directors, although most of her work has been made in or financed by other countries, principally Australia – where she now lives – and the United States...
.
Campbell is married and lives in Auckland, New Zealand. She has two sons.
Filmography (selected titles)
- Rubbings From a Live Man (2008) .... Producer
- Black SheepBlack Sheep (2007 film)Black Sheep is a New Zealand made comedy horror film written and directed by Jonathan King. North American distribution rights were acquired by The Weinstein Company and IFC Films. The Weinstein Company released the film on DVD on 9 October 2007 under their Dimension Extreme brand through Genius...
(2007) .... Producer - No. 2 (2006) .... Producer
- Rain (2001) .... Producer
- Via Satellite (1998) .... Producer
- Swimming Lessons (telefeature) (1995) .... Associate Producer
External links
- Philippa Campbell at the Internet Movie Database