Florian Habicht.

Born in Berlin in 1975, Florian emigrated to New Zealand with his family in
1982. Since graduating from the Elam School of Fine Arts, he has become one
of the leading figures of independent filmmaking in New Zealand. His films
have screened theatrically here, and in film festivals abroad.

Florian began developing his new fiction feature project “Permissive
Paradise” at the Binger Filmlab Amsterdam in 2005 and is currently
completing the Creative New Zealand funded documentary “Land of the Long
White Cloud” for this years International Film Festivals.

In August he will spend a year in NYC, as the inaugural recipient of the
Harriet Friedlander New York Residency.

Florian is the son of acclaimed sixties photographer Frank Habicht.

Christopher Pryor

Christopher Pryor has a background as a stills photographer. His work has been exhibited and appeared in numerous publications. He met Mr Habicht while studying engineering at the Auckland University. Since then they have collaborated extensively. Chris was the DOP and co-editor of Woodenhead. He has been involved in shooting for the on-going documentary project 'Kaikohe Demolition.' (From which the photo essay 'Kaikohe Racers' was published in Pavement Magazine Oct/Nov 2001.) Most recently Chris has shot numerous local short films. In 1988, Chris was the St Andrews Intermediate School Frisbee Champion.

Marc Chesterman

Marc was the first drummer for alternative rock group Lushburger. He went on to perform and release the CD Feather with experimental rock band Sudersuk (1994-8). As a founding member of Sone, this group made two performance based videos and released a CD The Dense Sense (1995-6). His collecting of field recordings culminated in a series of sound installations. Some of these were presented in Artspace's Relay events, which he helped organise. Never Look Up was installed in Lopdell House Gallery in 1998 and then documented on CD. Familiar/Unfamiliar was performed at SoundCulture '99. He has released two other solo CD's of environmental sound and percussion compositions. With John Kennedy he recorded the Drumsmachine CD, which makes a unique exploration of "post-techno percussion". They performed as an electro-acoustic drum kit duo in the Sound Shapes festival at Le Mata Theatre in Auckland 1999. Marc has a long-standing role as composer/sound designer with Mau Dance and has performed with Mau in NZ, Adelaide, Noumea and Venice. With film-maker Florian Habicht, Marc has composed music for short and digital feature productions, including the recent Woodenhead and Kaikohe Demolition. Marc has worked for other theatre companies such as ATC/2nd Unit, and on Pandemonium Theatres' Macbeth. Marc is also a member of improvising trio Audible 3. www.marcchesterman.net

Po Roa

The vocalist on "Hinatore i te Rangi e" is Po Roa. Po Roa is 100% indigenous original soul music. Contemporary organic Aotearoa at its best. Po Roa, a professional vocalist, gives soulful commentary with "sweet as honey" vocals and evocative lyrics in both English and Maori. Bicultural, bilingual, political, sassy and funky. Po Roa is West Auckland, NZ based. The former lawyer performs as an acoustic act and with her own band. She hails from the Eastern Bay of Plenty tribes of Te Whanau a Apanui and Te Whakatohea in New Zealand's North Island and her father is a West Aucklander of sixth generation Irish and English descent. Her blend of soul-roots sourced in issues of justice, mana wahine, whanau and identity evokes resemblances to Sarah McLachlan, Erykah Badu, Norah Jones and Mahinarangi Tocker. Po Roa's self-released CD "Aio" is due in October 2004. To contact: Manager/Contact: Andrea Tunks Email: andrea.tunks@xtra.co.nz

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