Chelsea Winstanley
{{Short description|New Zealand film producer}}
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Chelsea Jane Winstanley {{post-nominals|country=NZL|ONZM}} (born 30 January 1976) is a New Zealand film producer. She produces short films and documentaries which celebrate Indigenous peoples.{{cite web|url=https://nowtoronto.com/movies/news-features/chelsea-winstanley-imaginenative-forgive-me|title=Chelsea Winstanley is taking Indigenous women directors global|publisher=nowtoronto.com|date=23 October 2019|accessdate=19 June 2021|archive-date=24 June 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210624201642/https://nowtoronto.com/movies/news-features/chelsea-winstanley-imaginenative-forgive-me|url-status=live}} She also produced the films What We Do in the Shadows and Jojo Rabbit.
Career
Chelsea Jane Winstanley was born on 30 January 1976, in Tauranga, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand. She is the daughter of John Winstanley, a home renovator, and Cherry Wilson, a psychotherapist. Winstanley's maternal grandmother was Kiritapu "Kitty" Wilson (nee Borell) (1926–2014). Winstanley has Ngāti Ranginui and Ngāi Te Rangi ancestry through her mother.{{Cite web|url=https://www.nowtolove.co.nz/lifestyle/career/chelsea-winstanley-wife-taika-waititi-childhood-sexual-abuse-38149|title=Chelsea Winstanley Opens Up About Her Childhood Sexual Abuse And How Husband Taika Waititi Helped Her Heal|website=Now To Love|language=en|access-date=28 July 2019|archive-date=28 July 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190728173732/https://www.nowtolove.co.nz/lifestyle/career/chelsea-winstanley-wife-taika-waititi-childhood-sexual-abuse-38149|url-status=live}}
She has produced short films such as Meathead, Ebony Society and Night Shift. In 2014, she co-produced What We Do in the Shadows with Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement. She also co-produced Te Whakarauora Tangata and a documentary about Merata Mita.{{cite web|url=https://www.nzonscreen.com/person/chelsea-winstanley|title=Chelsea Winstanley – NZ On Screen|publisher=|access-date=5 September 2016|archive-date=12 October 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161012000935/https://www.nzonscreen.com/person/chelsea-winstanley|url-status=live}}
In 2017, Winstanley created the film production company Matewa Media alongside Tweedie Waititi, which focuses on creating Māori language adaptations of Disney animated films. As of 2020, the company has created adaptations of Moana (released in 2017), The Lion King and Frozen (both released in 2022).{{Cite web |url=https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/audio/2018824638/tweedie-waititi-bringing-disney-classics-into-te-ao-maori |title=Tweedie Waititi: Bringing Disney classics into te ao Māori |website=Radio New Zealand |date=15 December 2021 |access-date=26 July 2022 |archive-date=9 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220709031027/https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/audio/2018824638/tweedie-waititi-bringing-disney-classics-into-te-ao-maori |url-status=live }}{{cite news |url=https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/te-manu-korihi/469595/lion-king-reo-maori-premiere-a-dream-come-true |title=Lion King Reo Māori premiere: 'A dream come true' |access-date=22 June 2022 |work=Radio New Zealand |date=22 June 2022 |archive-date=22 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220622022435/https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/te-manu-korihi/469595/lion-king-reo-maori-premiere-a-dream-come-true |url-status=live }}{{cite news |url=https://www.morefm.co.nz/home/goss/2022/07/a-te-reo-m_ori-version-of-disney-s--frozen--is-coming-and-it-s-s.html |title=A TE REO MĀORI VERSION OF DISNEY'S 'FROZEN' IS COMING AND IT'S SOONER THAN YOU MIGHT THINK |work=More FM |date=5 July 2022 |access-date=9 July 2022 |archive-date=5 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220705085209/https://www.morefm.co.nz/home/goss/2022/07/a-te-reo-m_ori-version-of-disney-s--frozen--is-coming-and-it-s-s.html |url-status=live }} She directed the documentary Toi Tū Toi Ora in 2020.{{cite web |title=Chelsea Winstanley to Direct Māori Art Doc "Toi Tu Toi Ora – Visual Sovereignty" |url=https://womenandhollywood.com/chelsea-winstanley-to-direct-maori-art-doc-toi-tu-toi-ora-visual-sovereignty/ |access-date=19 July 2021 |date=7 July 2020 |archive-date=26 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210526195151/https://womenandhollywood.com/chelsea-winstanley-to-direct-maori-art-doc-toi-tu-toi-ora-visual-sovereignty/ |url-status=live }}
Awards and recognition
She won the 2014 SPADA Screen Industry Awards Independent Producer of the Year (shared with Taika Waititi).{{cite web |title=Chelsea Winstanley – NZ On Screen |url=https://www.nzonscreen.com/person/chelsea-winstanley/awards |publisher= |access-date=5 September 2016 |archive-date=12 October 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161012002747/https://www.nzonscreen.com/person/chelsea-winstanley/awards |url-status=live }} In 2015, Winstanley was the New Zealand Women in Film and Television's Mana Wahine recipient at Wairoa's Maori Film Festival.{{cite web |date=3 June 2015 |title=The Diary: Second baby on the way for Taika |url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=11458636 |publisher= |via=New Zealand Herald |access-date=5 September 2016 |archive-date=19 September 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160919085606/http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=11458636 |url-status=live }}
In the 2022 Queen's Birthday and Platinum Jubilee Honours, Winstanley was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to the screen industry and Māori.{{cite news |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/the-queens-birthday-and-platinum-jubilee-honours-list-2022/W53HWSV4TI7DGRF66KXQCTHB34/ |title=The Queen's Birthday and Platinum Jubilee Honours List 2022 |date=6 June 2022 |work=The New Zealand Herald |access-date=6 June 2022 |archive-date=6 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220606054241/https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/the-queens-birthday-and-platinum-jubilee-honours-list-2022/W53HWSV4TI7DGRF66KXQCTHB34/ |url-status=live }}
Winstanley has won two awards at the Women in Film and Television New Zealand Awards: in 2009 she won the Woman to Watch Award, and in 2022 she won the Award for Achievement in Film.{{Cite web |last=Team |first=Waatea |date=17 May 2015 |title=Winstanley out of shadows for WIFT award |url=https://waateanews.com/2015/05/18/winstanley-out-of-shadows-for-wift-award/ |access-date=27 July 2022 |website=Waatea News: Māori Radio Station |language=en-NZ |archive-date=27 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220727115557/https://waateanews.com/2015/05/18/winstanley-out-of-shadows-for-wift-award/ |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |title=WIFT NZ – In case you missed the WIFT Awards winners... |url=https://www.wiftnz.org.nz/news/news-archive/2022/jul/in-case-you-missed-the-wift-awards-winners/ |access-date=27 July 2022 |website=www.wiftnz.org.nz |archive-date=27 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220727115712/https://www.wiftnz.org.nz/news/news-archive/2022/jul/in-case-you-missed-the-wift-awards-winners/ |url-status=live }}
Personal life
At age 20, Winstanley had a son whom she raised as a single mother.
In 2011, she married New Zealand director Taika Waititi; they have two daughters.{{cite news | url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=10810400 | title=Girl, not Boy, for director dad | first=Kathryn | last=Powley | work=The New Zealand Herald | date=3 June 2012 | accessdate=5 February 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150705164622/http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=10810400 | archive-date=5 July 2015 | url-status=dead }}{{cite web|url=https://m.facebook.com/taika.waititi/posts/1075491172497448|title=Day One on Thor: Ragnarok|publisher=Taika Waititi|date=6 July 2016|accessdate=6 May 2018|archive-date=4 February 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200204101424/https://m.facebook.com/taika.waititi/posts/1075491172497448|url-status=live}} The couple separated in 2018.{{cite news |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/taika-waititi-and-wife-chelsea-winstanley-separated/CF5NIJYXMHUNOWYYGRA7CFVWMY/ |title=Taika Waititi and Chelsea Winstanley Separated |work=The New Zealand Herald |date=14 March 2020 |access-date=17 May 2021 |archive-date=27 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210427031626/https://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/taika-waititi-and-wife-chelsea-winstanley-separated/CF5NIJYXMHUNOWYYGRA7CFVWMY/ |url-status=live }}
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External links
- {{IMDb name|4438615|Chelsea Winstanley}}
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Category:New Zealand film producers
Category:Ngāti Ranginui people
Category:Place of birth missing (living people)
Category:New Zealand Māori film producers
Category:New Zealand women film producers
Category:New Zealand Māori women