Angela Littlejohn

Angela is a seasoned international Screen Producer and Executive who has worked in the film and TV industry for the past 30 years. Prior to returning to New Zealand in 2000, Angela spent 15 years in the UK working in the film and television industry. She worked as Drama Co-Production Executive and Programme Finance Manager for Channel 4 and Film4. Films made during her tenure included Trainspotting, Secrets and Lies, Fever Pitch, Hilary & Jackie, Brassed Off, Welcome to Sarejevo and Ken Loach's Carla's Song. TV Drama included Queer as Folk, Tales of the City, Anna Karenina, Sword of Honour, Longitude and Shackleton. Once back in New Zealand she teamed up with fellow Producer Rachel Gardner (See Saw Films) and produced Oscar nominated Anthony McCarten's second feature film Show of Hands and Sima Urale's Apron Strings. Angela's drive has always been to be a creative collaborator on good stories with great filmmakers. Her wide breadth of production experience means she often mentors and dovetails into other roles as an Executive Producer and Line Producer. She line-produced John Maclean's Slow West starring Michael Fassbender, Kodi Smit-McPhee and Ben Mendelsohn which won the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival in 2015. She was development & executive producer on Miranda Harcourt and Stuart MacKenzie's debut feature The Changeover in 2017. Her TV producing credits include the acclaimed TV drama series Cleverman Season 1 & 2, a NZ/Australian co-production with Goalpost Pictures whose recent credits include The Invisible Man. She co-produced Channel 4's BAFTA winning Not Only But Always with the UK's Company Pictures starring Rhy Ifans. She has worked as a Producer on a number of NZ tele-features Tangiwai, Rage, Pirates of the Airways, Field Punishment and the groundbreaking TV drama series Harry starring Sam Neil and Oscar Kightley. She was Series Producer on the pre-school animation TV series Kiddets, the first NZ/China official TV co-production In 2019 she joined Bunya Productions (Mystery Road) in Sydney, Australia and produced Ivan Sen's feature film Loveland, and Leah Purcell's, The Drovers Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson. Both films due to release in 2020. Prior to joining Bunya she was Head of Production at Richard Taylor's Pukeko Pictures from 2014 -2018. In 2020 she returned to NZ to produce Matthew J Saville's Juniper starring Charlotte Rampling and Michelle Savill's Millie Lies Low. Both films are scheduled to be completed by the end of 2020.

18 June 2020