by LP | Feb 22, 2017 | Events, News
Leanne Pooley has been made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit. Announced in the New Year’s honours list on January 1st, 2017 Leanne is being recognised for her services to documentary...
by LP | Nov 30, 2016 | Documentaries, News
Drawing on success RadioNZ “Only one woman is a contender for this year’s Best Animated Feature Academy Award, and that woman is New Zealand director Leanne Pooley. Her animated documentary 25 April is about the WWI Gallipoli campaign. It’s also the first NZ...
by LP | Nov 24, 2016 | Documentaries, News
Of the 27 movies in contention for this year’s Best Animated Feature Oscar, “25 April” is the only film directed solely by a woman. Writer/director Leanne Pooley is excited to be breaking boundaries both as a female director and as a documentarian....
by LP | Nov 24, 2016 | News
The animated documentary “25 April” about the WWI Gallipoli campaign is the first New Zealand movie to qualify for a “Best Animated Feature” ACADEMY AWARD. “25 April” was produced by Matthew Metcalfe, directed by Leanne Pooley and animated by Flux...
by LP | Aug 6, 2016 | News
“Their stories are illustrated by battlefield, trench and hospital ship scenes whose 2D animation, with its craggy, vaguely cubist shapes and jerky movement, has an interestingly distancing effect, making the battlefield experiences paradoxically more absorbing...
by LP | Apr 4, 2016 | Documentaries, Events, News
Check out this great review of 25 APRIL opening in New Zealand this April. “Documentarian Leanne Pooley (The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls) — a Canadian expat living in New Zealand — has crafted a particularly visionary work with her experimental, animated film...
