Kindred Films is an award-winning production company that tells compelling true-life stories with social impact.
Our most recent project Exposure follows the first New Zealanders to undergo a game-changing OCD treatment brought to the country by the charity Open Closed Doors. The documentary is providing hope to thousands of people struggling with this misunderstood condition, and helping promote treatment changes within public and private mental health services. It looks likely to screen – and generate improved understanding and treatment – around the world in the next 12 months.
The acclaimed documentary No Māori Allowed reveals Aotearoa’s suppressed history of racial segregation and has led to real world changes in the town of Pukekohe where the story is based. It won Best Documentary at the 2023 NZ Film and TV Awards, the Grand Prix du Jury at the Fifo International Documentary Festival, and the Pasifika Award for Best Feature Film at the Hawai’i International Film Festival. It is frequently used as a teaching resource at schools around the country.
Kindred Films first production, the feature Six Angry Women, is an investigation into the unsolved mystery of a shocking early Me Too action in the 1980s. It has screened in festivals around the world, including the prestigious Santa Barbara International Film Festival, and won Best Documentary at MujerDOC and Cinema d’iDEA and the audience award for Best Documentary at the Cannes Independent Film Festival.
Our original format series Food Rescue Kitchen challenges top chefs to make three-course meals out of rescued food, shining a light on the local and global issue of food waste.
Kindred Films is now working with US-based company IO. – founded by environmental leader and entrepreneur Suzy Amis Cameron – to create content that promotes science, technology, and commercial success to address urgent social and environmental challenges.
