Title: Dead Strangers
Format: Web Series pilot
Duration: 15 min
Year: 2026
Writer/Director: Angeline Loo
Producers: Anna Canton, Alex Farley, Shreya Gejji
DOP: Daryl Wong
Starring: Celine Dam, Marshayla Christie
Synopsis: A lonely young woman chases emotional connection through obsessively watching the livestream funerals of strangers. 
​Funding: New Zealand On Air with Pan-Asian Screen Collective & RNZ
Status: In Post-Production

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Title: Homecoming
Format: Short Film
Duration: 14 min
Year: 2024
Writer/Director: Grae Meek
Producer: Anna Canton
DOP: Julian Vares
Starring: Awa Puna, Lara Macgregor, Wharerangi Mihinui
Synopsis: A transgender woman returns home to come out to her parents. But the dinner goes south as her anxieties manifest in dark, sinister ways.
​Funding: New Zealand Film Commission, Boosted, Ara Foundation, Pan-Asian Screen Collective
Festivals: Top of the South 2025 (NZ) Winner - Best Film, Best Script, Best Director, Best Actress - Awa Puna; British Urban Film Festival 2025 (UK)

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HOMECOMING news & media

• Ara videographer Grae Meek wins top film honours for Homecoming
• Homecoming's Boosted Campaign
• ‘New wave of cinema’: Film hoping to shine light on coming out as a transgender person needs to raise funds
• Ara’s Pride Week Profile Boosted by Ara Staff Involvement In Transgender Film Funding

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Title: Model 15
Format: Short Film
Duration: 12 min
Year: 2013
Writer/Director: Edward Turnbull
Producers: Anna Canton, Edward Turnbull
DOP: Julian Vares
Starring: Anna Dediu
Synopsis: In the crumbling society of future NZ, a young woman is subjected to mind-altering substances, conjuring up technicolor dreams and fantasies while fighting off ruthless thugs with efficient violence.
Funding: Creative Communities
Festivals: Buffalo Dream Fantastic Film Festival 2013 (US) Winner - Best International Sci-Fi Short Film

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​Title: GRAVEL 3000
Format: Short Film
Duration: 6 min
Year: 2007
Writer/Director: Makoto Takaoka
Producer: Anna Canton
DOP: George Husband
Starring: Javier Jarquin, Damien McGrath, Dan Bain
Synopsis: A fight to the death in a post-apocalyptic world where nobody gets out alive.
​Funding: Self-funded
Festivals: Show Me Shorts 2007 (NZ); Wellington Fringe Film Festival 2007 (NZ); Helix Experimental Film Festival 2007 (Eastern Europe); Melbourne Underground Film Festival 2008 (Aus); Amberg Horror Fest 2008 (Ger).

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