Renae Maihi
- Director
- Writer
- Producer
Renae Maihi (New Zealand Maori) is an international award-winning writer and director in theatre & film whose career highlights include TIFF, Sundance and Berlinale Film Festivals.
Her debut feature film WARU which she wrote & directed in collaboration with 8 other woman filmmakers had its international premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2017. WARU went on to win best screenplay at the NZ SWANZ awards, the Grand Jury Award for an Outstanding International Narrative Feature at the 34th Asia Pacific Film Festival in Los Angeles & the "Best of SIFF 2018 Audience Award" at Seattle International Film Festival.
Post pandemic Renae returned to cinema in 2022 as a writer/director with the anthology feature film We Are Still Here which opened the Sydney Film Festival 2022 and premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival 2022. We Are Still Here went on to win the Telefilm award for Best Dramatic Feature Film at the imagineNATIVE Film Festival in Toronto and in 2023 played in major cinema's across Australia and New Zealand.
Represented by Hollywood management company 5Xmedia, an LA based trio of producers Garrick Dion (Drive, Nightcrawler) Scott Einbinder (The Hitmans Bodyguard, Killer Joe) and experienced manager Seth Nagel she is fast growing her reputation on the world circuit as a filmmaker to watch.
Her debut feature film WARU which she wrote & directed in collaboration with 8 other woman filmmakers had its international premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2017. WARU went on to win best screenplay at the NZ SWANZ awards, the Grand Jury Award for an Outstanding International Narrative Feature at the 34th Asia Pacific Film Festival in Los Angeles & the "Best of SIFF 2018 Audience Award" at Seattle International Film Festival.
Post pandemic Renae returned to cinema in 2022 as a writer/director with the anthology feature film We Are Still Here which opened the Sydney Film Festival 2022 and premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival 2022. We Are Still Here went on to win the Telefilm award for Best Dramatic Feature Film at the imagineNATIVE Film Festival in Toronto and in 2023 played in major cinema's across Australia and New Zealand.
Represented by Hollywood management company 5Xmedia, an LA based trio of producers Garrick Dion (Drive, Nightcrawler) Scott Einbinder (The Hitmans Bodyguard, Killer Joe) and experienced manager Seth Nagel she is fast growing her reputation on the world circuit as a filmmaker to watch.
