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Tui\u00a0 (Ng\u0101puhi) is an EAVE Producers Workshop, NZFC A – Z of Producing Workshop and Rotterdam Producers Lab alumnus with more than 20 years of experience as a writer, director, producer and executive producer in film, TV, video and marketing communications.<\/p>\n
He trained as a script editor through the New Zealand Film Commission\u2019s First Feature Film Lab with script consultant\/writer Keith Thompson (The Sapphires, Clubland<\/span><\/em>), the Script to Screen FilmUp mentorship program with Brita McVeigh, and the Script Factory Foundation Script Development Workshop.<\/p>\n Tui began his screen career in Japan, involved in producing stories for the US market. He later established a line production company, working with Japanese TVC production companies filming in New Zealand.<\/p>\n Two separate stints followed as a writer, director, producer, and later executive producer at one of New Zealand\u2019s largest television production companies, with a further five years in Japan in varied roles, including as executive producer for international news agency Reuters.<\/p>\n He followed this with five years as managing director and executive producer of a boutique marketing communications agency servicing small and medium-sized businesses, large corporates, non-profits, and governmental and non-governmental organisations.<\/p>\n Tui is a graduate of Tokyo\u2019s Sendagaya Japanese Language Institute where he spent three years studying written and spoken Japanese.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tui\u00a0 (Ng\u0101puhi) is an EAVE Producers Workshop, NZFC A – Z of Producing Workshop and Rotterdam Producers Lab alumnus with more than 20 years of experience as a writer, director, producer and executive producer in film, TV, video and marketing communications. He trained as a script editor through the New Zealand Film Commission\u2019s First Feature<\/p>\n