14 Oct 2017

Chelsea Cohen - Waru

From Saturday Morning, 8:10 am on 14 October 2017

Chelsea Cohen, sometimes credited as Chelsea Winstanley, is a film producer of Ngati Ranginui descent. Her short films Meathead and Night Shift were both selected for the Cannes Film Festival; Meathead was an award-winner in Berlin. Later she was one of the producers on hit vampire mockumentary What We Do in the Shadows, directed by her husband Taika Waititi, and Jemaine Clement. Cohen co-produced the Merata Mita domestic abuse doco Saving Grace - Te Whakarauora Tangata, and also co-produced Moana in te reo, a project that took three months to translate, mix and record. In 2015 she was awarded the Women in Film and TV Mana Wahine Award. Cohen and her family live in LA. Her current project is as one of the eight female directors on the film Waru, a film looking at eight different perspectives on a child's death from possible abuse and neglect.