Cast & Filmmakers | TEDDY - award-winning gay short film

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TEDDY - award-winning gay short film from New Zealand

CAST
	Brian Moore - Tony Brian has appeared in various commercials and TV/film projects, most recently as DK Bond in Jungle Fever 2: Primal Fury for HaynesFilm and as the Young Master Zero in Amazing Extraordinary Friends 360 for Greenstone Pictures. He has also just completed sell-out seasons of Sophie Dingemans' Grace in Auckland and Wellington with the Rebel Alliance playing Harold Oakeshott. *
	Chris Tempest - Neil Chris was born in 1986 in Doncaster, England. He moved to New Zealand in 2002 and since then has been studying full time. A recent graduate of the UNITEC Performing Arts School, where he majored in acting, Chris has experience with theatre, film, writing, movement, singing, Shakespeare and improvisation. *
	Alan Granville - Phil From bungee jumping to charity boxing matches and now acting for the first time, New Zealand has been a unique experience for Alan. The Dubliner has been in Aotearoa for over four years and calls Auckland home. He works for the TVNZ website as well as owning Urge Bar on Karangahape Road. *

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FILMMAKERS

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Producer Andy Jalfon (left) and writer/director Christopher Banks (right) and have been recognised internationally for their achievements, including extensive exhibition/distribution for their body of work to date.

Christopher Banks wrote, produced, directed, edited and scored his debut feature Quiet Night In. It played to festival audiences in Toronto and the UK in 2005, followed by an Australasian DVD release in 2007. His work as a reporter and director on the award-winning Queer Nation series has recently been chosen as one of a handful of episodes from the shows nine-year run to be showcased by the NZ On Screen web project.

Since graduating from the New Zealand Film Academy in 2005, Andy Jalfon has produced and directed behind-the-scenes series for two of New Zealands most popular and successful programmes, Shortland Street and Dancing With The Stars. He was the Content Producer during the development of the first online catch up service in the southern hemisphere, TVNZ Ondemand, which has won the internationally-recognised Content+Innovation Award. He was also an integral part of the multi-million dollar project for the redesign and launch of the new TVNZ entertainment site. His production company produces a variety of films for a range of platforms, from on screen to online.

Their first production together, the short film Teddy, was released in 2009. So far, it has won two awards, and become the first New Zealand film to be nominated for the prestigious Iris Prize for short film-making in the UK. It has played to sold-out audiences in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch as part of the Out Takes Reel Queer Film Festival; and internationally to audiences of thousands at some of the worlds largest GLBT film festivals, including Toronto, New York, San Francisco, London, Tokyo and Los Angeles, where it has garnered high praise from filmgoers and festival directors alike.

Their second production, Communication, was released in 2010, and has won two international awards - including Outstanding Short Film at the QBliss Creating Change Community Awards in the United States. Other QBliss award-winners included Precious director Lee Daniels, Tales Of The City author Armistead Maupin, and N-Sync star Lance Bass.

Their latest film, The Colonels Outing, builds on the bittersweet mix of emotion which captured the hearts of audiences for Teddy and Communication, portraying a relationship between two men in the twilight of their lives in a way which few have cared to acknowledge or celebrate. It will be released in 2011.

TEDDY - Winner of Best Short Audience Award at Out Takes Film Festival

TEDDY - Winner, Short Film Of The Year, Friends of the Civic Trust

TEDDY - Official Selection Outfest, Frameline, Inside Out