Fiona Copland

Producer Fiona Copland is noted for quirky and ambitious feature films, many of them made with first-time directors. 2009's The Strength of Water won praise at festivals in Rotterdam and Berlin, while ensemble drama Matarikidebuted at the Toronto Film Festival. In 2019 she reunited with Topless Women Talk about their Lives director Harry Sinclair,  for the first of multiple seasons of award-winning animated series Kiri and Lou.

The roads that already existed were narrow, and there was a lot of mud ... the Hokianga part of the shoot was emotionally rewarding because of the way the community embraced us, but physically quite difficult. Fiona Copland, on making The Strength of Water