CV

FILM WORK
YEAR TITLE TYPE DIRECTOR PRODUCTION ROLE
2013 Black Cat SHORT Leonie Savvides Kenneth B. Myer Scholarship Co-producer,
Casting.
2013 Working Title: 'Our Notebook' DOCO Clare Young See-Saw Films, Screen Australia Director's
Assistant
2013 Space Creeps:
You Are Not Alone Tonight
MUSIC VIDEO Niamh Peren Self funded Director, Producer
2012/13 Top of The Lake TV Jane Campion& Garth Davis See-Saw Films, BBC Extras Casting &
Coordinator
2011 Night Shift SHORT Zia Mandviwalla New Zealand Film Commission Casting Assistant
In Competition, Cannes Film Festival 2012
2010/11 Various commercials and Short Film TVC Various Curious Film, NZ Director's Assistant
2010 NO. Magazine& Lonely Hearts Halloween Party SHORT Niamh Peren Lonely Hearts Director, Producer
2010 The Great Bunny Hunt DOCO Niamh Peren Self funded Director, Producer
2010 With Phil Price SHORT Niamh Peren Phil Price Director
2009 Rolling SHORT Niamh Peren Self funded Director, Producer
2009 Land of the Long White Cloud DOCO Florian Habicht New Zealand Film Commission Co-Director, Second Camera, Interviewer,
Creative Consultant
2008 Rabbit SHORT Niamh Peren Self funded Director, Producer
2008 Waterlord SHORT Niamh Peren Self funded Director, Producer
2007 Rubbings From A Live Man DOCO Florian Habicht New Zealand Film Commission Assistant Art Director
2007 Moustache Me Oh My SHORT Niamh Peren Self funded Director, Producer, Performer
2007 Bubblegum SHORT Niamh Peren Self funded Director, Producer, Performer

SIGNIFICANT SCREENINGS

2013/ The Great Bunny Hunt/ (Opening film) Wellington Underground Film Festival
2011/ The Great Bunny Hunt/ Animal Incarnations, Papakura Art Gallery, NZ
2010/ Rabbit/ Takeaways, High Street Project Gallery, NZ
2008/ Waterlord/ Egytemleges Film Festival, Taban Art Cinema, Hungary, Budapest
2008/ Bubblegum/ Egytemleges Film Festival, Taban Art Cinema, Hungary, Budapest
2008/ Bubblegum/ Helix (Arts program), channel Okto, national TV Austria
2008/ Moustache Me Oh My/ Helix (Arts program), channel Okto, national TV Austria

HIGHLIGHT

2011/ I played the character Fan in Stephen Kang’s ‘Blue’, which won Cannes Critics’ Week Grand Prix and the Du Meilleur Court Metrage award. 

COLLECTION

University of Auckland Video Artists Collection/ The Great Bunny Hunt (exam edit)

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Fine Arts (First Class Honours) conjoint Bachelor of Arts / University of Auckland, NZ/ 2012
International Baccalaureate Diploma/ St Margaret’s College, NZ/ 2006

AWARDS

Elam School of Fine Arts Prize for Moving Image or Sound Art/ 2010
Canterbury & Westland Science Fair Competition Senior Winner, Overall Winner, and receiver of Lincoln University’s scholarship for the Sciences/ 2006

SELECTED PRESS

Space Creeps, Post-New, 2013/ Niamh Peren; The Film Maker, Punched & Ruled, 2011/ Shooting Success For All Involved, Otago Daily Times, 20 December, 2010/ Fresh Faces: The Full Package, Creative Magazine, The New Zealand Issue, p.46, May 2010/ Niamh Peren, Pavement, The Youth Issue, 2006