Chelsea Winstanley

Chelsea Winstanley is a New Zealand film producer. She is best known for producing short films and documentaries which celebrate the Indigenous peoples.[2] She also produced the films What We Do in the Shadows and Jojo Rabbit.

Chelsea Winstanley
Born1975/1976 (age 45–46)[1]
OccupationFilm producer
Spouse(s)
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(m. 2011; sep. 2018)​
Children3

Career

Winstanley has Ngāti Ranginui and Ngāi Te Rangi ancestry through her mother.[3]

She has produced short films such as Meathead, Ebony Society and Night Shift. In 2014, she co-produced What We Do in the Shadows with Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement. She also co-produced Te Whakarauora Tangata and a documentary about Merata Mita.[4]

She won the 2014 SPADA Screen Industry Awards Independent Producer of the Year (shared with Taika Waititi).[5] In 2015, Winstanley was the New Zealand Women in Film and Television's Mana Wahine recipient at Wairoa's Maori Film Festival.[6]

She directed the documentary Toi Tū Toi Ora in 2020.[7]

Personal life

At age 20, Winstanley had a son, Maia, whom she raised as a single mother.[3]

She married New Zealand director Taika Waititi in 2011. They have two daughters.[8][9] They separated in 2018.[10]

References
  1. "Chelsea Winstanley Opens Up About Her Childhood Sexual Abuse And How Husband Taika Waititi Helped Her Heal". Now To Love.
  2. "Chelsea Winstanley is taking Indigenous women directors global". nowtoronto.com. 23 October 2019. Retrieved 19 June 2021.
  3. "Chelsea Winstanley Opens Up About Her Childhood Sexual Abuse And How Husband Taika Waititi Helped Her Heal". Now To Love. Retrieved 28 July 2019.
  4. "Chelsea Winstanley - NZ On Screen".
  5. "Chelsea Winstanley - NZ On Screen".
  6. "The Diary: Second baby on the way for Taika". 3 June 2015 – via New Zealand Herald.
  7. "Chelsea Winstanley to Direct Māori Art Doc "Toi Tu Toi Ora – Visual Sovereignty"". 7 July 2020. Retrieved 19 July 2021.
  8. Powley, Kathryn (3 June 2012). "Girl, not Boy, for director dad". The New Zealand Herald. Archived from the original on 5 July 2015. Retrieved 5 February 2015.
  9. "Day One on Thor: Ragnarok". Taika Waititi. 6 July 2016. Retrieved 6 May 2018.
  10. "Taika Waititi and Chelsea Winstanley Separated". New Zealand Herald. 14 March 2020.
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