NZ Marketing

Kate Roydhouse, Curious Film

On its balanced roster

When I started at Curious, about a year and a half ago, Matt Noonan [founder and executive producer] mentioned to me that it would be really rad if we could just look at evening out our roster.

There are some amazing women out there and I really want to be representing them but, that entire process does take quite a long time.

My response to that was, obviously, ‘I’m really down and I really want to do that’.

My biggest consideration around the roster, is to make sure that we’re not signing a whole lot of people or a whole lot of women that just tick a box and don’t necessarily sit within our style.

We sign directors who want to direct commercial, so one of the biggest things is:

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