Canada-New Zealand Co-production
Therapy 4 Adults and Aunties
Workaholic eco-architect, Jordi, demolishes her big-city career and retreats home to her family honey farm — where she rebuilds her life based on bee-havioural wisdom dispensed by her 9-year-old niece.
Director: KC Carthew
Writers: Kristen Carthew, Claire Harris, and Micheala Rooney
Producers: Jane Loughman, Kirsten Carthew, and Georgina Conder
Kirsten Carthew
Kirsten’s films have been theatrically released in Australia, Brazil, Canada and the USA, as well as broadcast globally on multiple networks including HBO, Crave, APTN and CBC. She is currently in post-production on her second feature, Polaris. Her debut feature The Sun At Midnight, garnered nine awards internationally and continues to have global sales. Kirsten is the recipient of the DGC Ontario Mentorship program and the Canadian Academy’s Apprenticeship for Women Directors sponsored by Netflix. She is known for international collaborations, working with talent, crews, producers and financiers in Canada, the USA, Brazil, Australia, Japan, Germany and the United Arab Emirates.
Claire Harris
Claire J. Harris is an award-winning screenwriter, based in Melbourne Australia. She is a writer on the original Netflix series, Dive Club, aimed at the YA market. In 2017, Claire released Zelos, her debut independent feature film as writer and producer. The film enjoyed a well-received run on the international festival circuit, before its theatrical release across Australia. Claire currently has two feature screenplays in development with Brisbane’s The Steve Jaggi Company (Rip Tide, Back of the Net) scheduled for production in 2021 and 2022. She has also participated in writers’ rooms for two TV series in development with HBO.
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Micheala Rooney
Micheala Rooney is a graduate of Toi Whakaari (NZ Drama School) She has acted in theatre (Steel Magnolias, The End of the Golden Weather, Macbeth, The Sex Fiend), television (Shortland Street, Maddigan’s Quest, Agent Anna, Newsflash) and film (Under the Mountain, Emperor, Lovebirds, The Rehearsal). For over 20 years, she has storylined, scripted and script-edited for Shortland Street (NZ’s longest-running drama series) and assessed scripts for South Pacific Pictures. She wrote and compile-directed factual series Coromandel Med (Cream TV, TV2) as well as drama scripts for Crossroads (Carlton TV UK), The Strip (Gibson Group, TV3) and Mercy Peak (SPP, TV1). She was a core writer on comedy series Newsflash (Gibson Group, TV2), storyliner on Willy Nilly (Big House, TV1) and script editor for Family Affairs (Pearson UK) and Harry (Desert Road, TV3). She is an examiner for AUT’s Master of Creative Writing for Scriptwriters.
