Glenis Giles

Glenis Giles returns to the film industry after six years working in marketing and social media for a New Zealand gift and stationery company, Live Wires NZ Ltd, with a large NZ and global market.

Glenis and Clare have been working together on a privately funded documentary for the past two years – Geoff Dixon | Portraits of Us. This has been her first foray into directing - which she has loved.

Glenis is an independent producer of film and television with over twenty years' experience in the local industry. She was a founding member of Women in Film & Television (WIFT) and represented New Zealand at WIFTI, Women and Film & Television International.

She has worked on feature films as production manager and line producer.
Her portfolio of work includes documentaries, theatrical short films, TV dramas, commercials and music videos. She has worked extensively in the production of television for youth, and her science series QTV was a finalist in the Japan Prize and the ANZ TV awards in 2006.

Over the years she has produced numerous award-winning shorts including Song of the Siren, Eau de la Vie, Shoes and Mokopuna, Ainsley Gardner's directorial debut.

She produced three short films, Dangerous Ride, Beautiful Collision and The Handkerchief with Linda Niccol, and was instrumental in the early days of Linda's feature film Poppy.

Her documentaries, co-produced with director Clare O'Leary - Michael King, a moment in time; A Class Act, Mervyn Thompson; and Gordon Crook, A Life of Art, all screened in the International Film Festival of New Zealand.

All her short films have screened at the NZ International Film Festivals and many travelled to international festivals.

She was involved in the Wellington Fringe Film Festival for nineteen years, as co-ordinator and then Chair.

Glenis was a founding member of WIFT Wellington and has been on the NZ board and the International representative for NZ on WIFTi International.

Filmography

	GEOFF DIXON - PORTRAITS OF US » Geoff Dixon’s art reflects his vision for our future unless we take immediate action – he worked as a conservationist long before the word became part of our everyday vocabulary...
	PORTRAITS OF US » Geoff Dixon’s art reflects his vision for our future unless we take immediate action – he was worked as a conservationist long before the word became part of our everyday vocabulary...