Jackie is a New Zealand actress, writer and director best known for The Breaker Upperers, a buddy comedy that she co-wrote, directed and starred in with Madeleine Sami. Her first feature film, The Inland Road, premiered in competition at the 2017 Berlin Film Festival. She played Jackie, the desperate familiar, in Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement's What We Do in the Shadows and now directs on two of the film's spin-offs: Wellington Paranormal and the Shadows FX series.
Set behind the scenes of an ordinary Kiwi secondary school, following the hopelessly and hilariously inept people in charge of educating the next generation.
Release Date2019-05-08
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Charactersd Robyn Duffy
Episode Count26
Vote Count1
A new sketch comedy show that is funny - and has girls! Featuring fast paced sketches that cover issues such as work, life, relationships and what to do when you’re being haunted by a photobombing ghost. Set on a fictional television show where a large group of men produce an all-female sketch show. Funny Girls is a combination of hilarious sketches linked together by a behind-the-scenes narrative often derived from misguided opinions on what women want.
Release Date2015-10-23
Charactersd Pauline
Episode Count18
Vote Count1
Twenty-something Matt Gibson had dreams of making it big in the music world with his brother Alex and then-girlfriend, Ivy. They head to L.A. to try their luck. However, things don't always turn out the way you plan and, while Ivy's music career flourishes, he soon finds himself back in New Zealand with his brother and another friend playing gigs as a covers band, 'The Silhouettes'.
Release Date2014-09-25
Charactersd Stacey
Episode Count6
Vote Count2
Vampire housemates try to cope with the complexities of modern life and show a newly turned hipster some of the perks of being undead.
Release Date2014-06-19
Charactersd Jackie
Vote Count3682
A recently widowed father, quits his job as a popular 800 word columnist for a top selling Sydney newspaper. Over the internet he buys a house on an impulse in a remote New Zealand seaside town. He then has to break the news to his two teenage kids who just lost their mum, and now face an even more uncertain future. But the colourful and inquisitive locals ensure his dream of a fresh start does not go to plan.
Release Date2015-09-15
Charactersd Gloria
Episode Count15
Vote Count25
Love blossoms for Lily over double Meaty Boy burgers at mid-day when uber-computer nerd Jarrod comes in and leaves with free extra large fries. After gatecrashing Jarrod's party and proving her skills on the game console, Lily goes down to Jarrod's home town with him so he can settle an old score with a past school bully.
Release Date2007-07-15
Charactersd Burger Staff
Vote Count310
Two women run a business breaking up couples for cash but when one develops a conscience their friendship unravels.
Release Date2018-03-10
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Jen
Vote Count220
Self-appointed Mother of the Year, Ronnie has given her daughter Audrey everything, so when Audrey selfishly falls into a coma, Ronnie has no choice but to keep their dreams alive by assuming her identity.
Release Date2024-11-07
Charactersd Ronnie Lipsick
Vote Count6
When middle-aged suburban couple, Laura and Bruno are gifted a remote couples’ retreat for their anniversary, they decide to give their failing marriage one last shot before calling it quits. Arriving in an idyllic sanctuary nestled in the mountains, Laura and Bruno uncomfortably enter a world of laughter workshops, tantric dance, sexual liberation and emotional animals, helmed by the charismatic guru Bjorg Rassmussen. When new temptations start to take hold, the couple are pushed to the brink forcing them to look within to find what they really want. But will they bare all to get it?
Release Date2022-06-23
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Charactersd Laura
Vote Count17
In this mockumentary, Kevin Smith plays himself covering the story of a New Zealand town after the discovery that a local shellfish, the geoduck (pronounced "gooey duck") has the properties of Viagra.
Release Date2001-07-19
Charactersd Fiona Mathieson
Anika's on the loose again, ready to go deep and laugh hard with well-known Kiwis. Her infectious honesty opens the hearts of all she meets - and before they know it, they've shared their deepest secrets!
Release Date2018-03-28
Charactersd Self
Episode Count13
Vote Count1
A documentary-style look into the daily (or rather, nightly) lives of a group of vampires in Staten Island who have “lived” together for hundreds and hundreds of years.
Release Date2019-03-27
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count863
Eleven-year-old Kevin's passion for history is put to the test when he joins a ragtag group of time-traveling thieves on a high-stakes and hilarious adventure.
Release Date2024-07-23
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count106
Hannah Howard is the managing director of packaging company Flinley Craddick. When she gets news from Head Office that her branch will be shut down and everyone will go remote, she goes into survival mode, making promises she can't keep in order to keep her "work family" together.
Release Date2024-10-18
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count8
Vote Count31
New Zealand's capital is a hotbed of supernatural activity... so Officers Minogue and O'Leary, who featured in the vampire documentary What We Do In The Shadows, take to the streets to investigate all manner of paranormal phenomena.
Release Date2018-07-11
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count6
Vote Count99
A romantic comedy about the crazy lengths a woman in her mid-30s is willing to go to when she discovers the perfect man.
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
A teenage girl is entrusted to return a very special item to her family for her grandmother’s funeral.
Release Date2012-07-21
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
An unconventional love story between an antisocial teenager, a Scotsman and a five-year-old girl.
Release Date2017-02-16
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count7
After one particularly catastrophic day at their respective workplaces, busy professionals Maddie and Leo find themselves both unemployed. Dreaming of a fresh start but needing reliable income to support the family they hope to start together, the couple have a chance encounter with Kai, a smouldering kombucha artisan raking in the cash. Seeing dollar signs, Maddie and Leo swipe Kai's kombucha culture to kickstart their own enterprise, but when they mix in some mysterious herbs from a neighbour's garden, the culture gains sentience and proves deadly. With their relationship hanging by a thread, can Maddie and Leo unite to prevent a full-blown zombucha apocalypse?
Release Date2025-08-21
