Leanne Pooley

Feature Film "Dame Valerie Adams: More Than Gold", "Beyond Conversion" for TVNZ and "Fightback:Joseph Parker" for streaming platform DAZN.

It also won Best Feature at the NZ Film & TV Awards, and reached just under $2 million at the New Zealand box office.

Previous documentaries include; Being Billy Apple released in 2007 about the legendary pop turned conceptual artist who used his own identity to explore the concept of artist as art object and whose idea driven works about branding and 'art and life' broke new ground in London and New York; Shackleton's Captain, a documentary about Frank Worsley, captain of Shackleton's Endurance, The Man Who Has Everything for the American Discovery Network, Kiwi Buddha as seen on National Geographic and Haunting Douglas, described by Variety Magazine as an "Expertly crafted video portrait of modern dancer/choreographer Douglas Wright".

Her documentary Try Revolution explores how rugby was used to help end apartheid in South Africa and featured among others Archbishop Desmond Tutu.

She has taught documentary at various universities and filmschools and is an active member of the New Zealand Director’s Guild and The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

DIRECTOR We Need To talk about AI - GFC - Universal Pictures - 2020 The pros and cons of Artificial General Intelligence.

DIRECTOR: The Girl On The Bridge - Augusto - NZFC - 2020 The story of mental health activist and suicide survivor Jazz Thornton.

PRODUCER: "Finding Mercy" - Spacific Films - 2012 TVNZ/The Knowledge Network - 2012 A heart breaking documentary about two little girls and a friendship that came to represent the lost promise of Zimbabwe.

DIRECTOR/PRODUCER: THE PROMISE – Spacific Films -2005 Television New Zealand / CBC (Canada) / LINK (USA) / TPS (Taiwan) Feature-length documentary following the incredible journey of Leslie Martin, the euthanasia advocate who was convicted of attempting to murder her mother.

PRODUCER: KIWI BUDDHA - Spacific Films - 2000 National Geographic (International) / TV3 (New Zealand) / Danish Public Broadcasting / RTÉ (Ireland) / Israel / Korea / France The story of Rinpoche, the Southern Hemisphere’s first Buddhist High Lama DIRECTOR/PRODUCER: RELATIVE GUILT - Spacific Films - 1999 TV3 (New Zealand) Guilt by association, the family of a murderer.

DIRECTOR: EYEWITNESS - "Pond & River " - Café Productions –1996 BBC / OPB (PBS America) / (over 80 territories) Part of the Emmy Award-winning series combining history, science, and mythology with nature.

DIRECTOR: BRAVE NEW WORLD – Open Media – 1994 Channel 4 (UK) A science film investigating the implications of genetic research on reproductive technology.

DIRECTOR/CAMERA: 40 MINUTES - "A Change of Heart" –Mosaic Pictures - 1993 BBC (Worldwide) various territories A look at the issues surrounding the use of pig’s organs for human transplantation.