Jan Oliver Lucks Signs with Top Talent Agency in the US

Jan Oliver Lucks, DEGANZ member and director of the critically acclaimed documentary There Is No I in Threesome, has signed with ICM Partners, a Los Angeles based talent and literary agency with offices in New York, Washington D.C and London. Including representing clients in motion pictures, ICM also has clients in television, music, publishing, live performance and new media.

Having premiered on HBO Max earlier this year, There Is No I in Threesome, a film about an open relationship, is having its theatrical release at this year’s Whānau Mārama: New Zealand International Film Festival (NZIFF).

Jan Oliver has a new series in the pipeline, a road trip buddy comedy that follows him and his best friend, Wilbur, as they embark on a quest to discover healthy masculinity.

Last updated on 5 November 2021

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NZIFF: Ashurst’s Snakeskin Returns in Retrospective to Honour Bill Gosden

Snakeskin, directed by DEGANZ members Gillian Ashurst and co-edited by Cushla Dillon, returns to the big screen as part of a specially curated line-up of retrospective films to honour Bill Gosden, former director of Whānau Mārama: New Zealand International Film Festival (NZIFF).

Starring Melanie Lynskey, Snakeskin follows two people bored of mundane suburbia who hit the road in search of adventure. Gosden wrote of Snakeskin when it ran at the Festival in 2001, “Bold, funny, sexy and macabre, Gillian Ashurst’s juicily cinematic first feature boots the cinema of unease into the new century…”

Snakeskin is one of eight films selected to screen as part of The Bill Gosden Tribute. The Tribute is a collection of some of Bill’s favourite films screened previously during his 40-year reign as director. In addition, a book to mark one year since his passing, titled The Gosden Years, is available for purchase from November 11 and is a record of his enormous legacy at the helm of NZIFF, including curated film notes and programme introductions.

We are delighted at the chance to see Snakeskin once again on big screens in parts of the country. To see if it’s screening in your town, head to the NZIFF website. Congratulations Gillian and Cushla!

Last updated on 4 November 2021

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