2011 CREATIVE GOLD AWARDS FINALISTS

DEBORAH SWEENEY

Deborah Sweeney is a high end, youth oriented, New Zealand women’s wear label. Her clever designs are a colourful, eclectic and a feminine mix of casual and tailored silhouettes.

In 2006, Deborah Sweeney won the coveted Air New Zealand Export Award. The collection is now stocked in select boutiques around the globe – from Australia to Japan and the USA.

Deborah Sweeney pieces are consistently featured in key fashion publications, including Vogue, Women’s Wear Daily, i-D, Nylon, Jane, Lucky and Elle Magazine.

In 2010, the label was profiled in the book New Zealand Fashion Design by Angela Lassig, Senior Curator at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.

Most recently, Deborah has started designing their new ‘Little Sweeney’ range, for kids aged two years and under.

Click here to visit the Deborah Sweeney website

DESIGNWORKS

When design works, it not only adds value to businesses, but to people’s lives. When strategic logic meets creative magic, things always change for the better. As New Zealand’s leading strategic design practice, Designworks has an unmatched capability and experience across a wide variety of disciplines.

"We transform business (and human) performance in a variety of industries by helping our clients move into market spaces they can truly ‘own’. A passionate team focused on building world-leading New Zealand brands through simply brilliant design."

Working across all sectors, Designworks help companies identify where they are versus where they could be, and then devise strategies and tactics to help them make the jump to fulfil their ambitions in local and international markets.

From major corporates such as Air New Zealand, AMI Insurance, Auckland International Airport, Silver Fern Farms, SouthernCross Healthcare Group and Telecom, through to SME businesses like, Leap, HotChilly or Rembrandt Suits, they have helped businesses achieve a stepped change in performance through applied strategic design thinking.

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DOWNSTAGE

Established in 1964, Downstage is New Zealand’s oldest professional theatre. Downstage runs an annual programme of contemporary theatre works, primarily at the iconic Hannah Playhouse on the corner of Courtenay Place and Cambridge Terrace.

Downstage attracts diverse audiences for high-quality, distinctive New Zealand theatre, and in the process play a critical role in developing the appreciation and support for professional theatre in Wellington.

Downstage also contributes to the arts infrastructure in Wellington through providing ticketing services for Fringe shows, holding industry fora, and hosting arts industry events, such as the Bruce Mason Awards, Pecha Kucha and various fundraising events for other arts organisations.

Click here to visit the Downstage website

KHF MEDIA

KHF Media is a company that pushes boundaries to create exciting and innovative new ways of telling stories.

Formed as a partnership between David Stubbs’ 10-year-strong, award-winning Wellington company, Krafthaus Films and Thomas Robins’ Flow Productions, KHF was originally formed to launch its flagship interactive online drama series, Reservoir Hill. Since launching the series in 2009, KHF has become New Zealand’s first company to win an International Emmy Award, in Cannes, along with numerous other accolades for the project, and has recently entered the export market – selling the exciting new format to the United States.

As well as creating Reservoir Hill 2: Everyone Lies in 2010 (also nominated for an International Emmy in 2011) – which further pushed the boundaries with new innovative opportunities for audience interaction – this young and dynamic company also entered into the documentary space in 2010, with Mr Invincible – a docu-drama on the Stephen Versalko story that will transform modern docu-drama.

KHF Media is a Wellington company that is performing on a world stage – and prides itself on creating new challenges for Wellington-based crews and opportunities to grow the industry.

Click here to visit the KHF Media website

THE NZ FILM ARCHIVE

Having just celebrated its 30th year of unflinching commitment to New Zealand’s film and television history, the New Zealand Film Archive is an independent charitable organisation.

Housed within the Film Archive are more than 120,000 films, videos and television programmes from 1895 to the present day. Every genre of film making – feature films, documentaries, short films, home movies, newsreels, TV programmes and advertisements – can be found at the Film Archive, meaning it’s a great source of information of New Zealand’s cultural past and present, as well (of course) as a great source of entertainment.

But the Film Archive is more than just film. There is also a significant documentation collection which includes publicity materials, stills, posters, production records, props, costumes and equipment housed in Wellington.

The Film Archive draws on its rich repository from the collections for regular screenings and events in its purpose-built cinema and gallery in Wellington, with screenings also held regularly around New Zealand as part of the community access and Te Hokinga Mai programmes.

The Archive has research libraries in Wellington and Auckland available at no cost to the public, with staff on hand to assist.

And from Wellington, the Film Archive is meeting the interests of New Zealanders from all corners of the country through its Medianet initiative, which is a network of digital access sites in art galleries and museums across New Zealand with more signing up each year.

Click here to visit the Film Archive