Resume

Personal Details

Address: Auckland

Cell: +64 21 155 4334
Email: mathewhartenz@gmail.com

Date of Birth: 26 December, 1985
Nationality: Maori New Zealander

Work Experience

TELEVISION

LIGHTING GAFFER: ‘Bogan Family Films – Season 1’
Great Southern Television
DOP: Roko Babich

LIGHTING ASSISTANT: ‘Amazing Extraordinary Friends – season 3’
Greenstone Pictures ltd
DOP: Dave Cameron
Lighting Gaffer: Christian Dunn & Paul Eversden

LIGHTING ASSISTANT: ‘AEF360 – Chronicles of wired’
Greenstone Pictures ltd
DOP: Richard Harling
Gaffer: Christian Dunn

LIGHTING ASSISTANT: ‘Piece Of My Heart’ – Tele Feature
MF Films ltd
DOP: Dave Cameron
Lighting Gaffer: Paul Eversden

LIGHTING ASSISTANT: ‘Jaquie Brown Diaries – Season two’
Young Gifted and Brown
LIGHTING GAFFER/BEST BOY: Sam Marshall

CAMERA ASSISTANT/LIGHTING ASSISTANT, ‘School of success’
Greenstone Pictures ltd.
DOP: Andy Martin

CAMERA ASSISTANT, ‘National Geographic’ ‘TJ and Tristan’,
Omnicron.
Producer – Raewyn Mackenzie.

LIGHTING ASSISTANT, ‘The Pretender’ Comedy series.
Great Southern Television
Lighting Gaffer: Paul Eversden.
DOP: Warrick Attewell

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MUSIC VIDEOS

LIGHTING GAFFER: Smash Proof – It’s Friday
Blur and Sharpen
DOP: Tim Flower
DIR: Tim Van Damen

LIGHTING GAFFER: ‘The Exiles’
PROD: Johnathan Hughes
DIR: Felicity Morgan-Rhind
DOP: Duncan Cole

BEST BOY: Kobra Kahn
Luc Mcpac
DOP:Richard Harling
Lighting Gaffer/Grip: Spencer Locke Boney

LIGHTING ASSISTANT: Erin Simpson – Gimme what you got
Fish n Clips
DOP: Andrew Stroud
Lighting Gaffer/Grip: Spencer Locke-Boney

LIGHTING ASSISTANT.
Band – Crash Politics, ‘Greedy white people’
Lighting Gaffer – Paul Eversden

LIGHTING ASSISTANT.
Band – The Feelers ‘Beautiful feeling’ & ‘Whoever said’
The Church ltd.
DOP: Duncan Cole
Lighting Gaffer: Paul Eversden

LIGHTING ASSISTANT.
Band – ‘CAMP ROCK’ Disney Australia
Special Problems
DOP: Crighton Bone
Gaffer/Grip: Paul Eversden

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COMMERCIALS

BEST BOY: ‘Mad Butchers Christmas Hampers’
Seven Productions
DOP: Duncan Cole,
LIGHTING GAFFER/GRIP: Spencer Locke Boney

LIGHTING ASSISTANT:
Flying Fish & Gorgeous (UK Production Company)
DOP: Robbie Ryan
Lighting Gaffer: Spencer Locke Boney

LIGHTING ASSISTANT: Discover, Family Health Diaries, Eating Well.
Spit Fire Productions
DOP: John Ramsey
Lighting Gaffer/Grip: Spencer Locke Boney

LIGHTING ASSISTANT: Discover, Family Health Diaries, Eating Well.
Spit Fire Productions
DOP: Warrick
Lighting Gaffer/Grip: Spencer Locke Boney

LIGHTING ASSISTANT: RaboPlus – Internet Banking
Film 360 – Ogilvy
DOP: Robert Marsh
Lighting Gaffer/Grip: Paul Eversden

CAMERA ASSISTANT, ‘AFT Pharmacies’ Commercial,
Omnicron.
DOP: Michael Zahn

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SHORT FILMS

CINEMATOGRAPHER/LIGHTING GAFFER: ‘Compound’
Dale Stewart Productions
Dir: Dale Stewart

BEST BOY: ‘Broken’
Co-op Productions
DOP: Christian Dunn
Lighting Gaffer: Yon Olsen

LIGHTING ASSISTANT: ‘BFL – Brothers For Life’
Isola productions ltd.
DOP: Tarx Morrison
Lighting Gaffer: Rocko Babbich

FOCUS PULLER: ‘A Cold Beer’
2008 Kodak short film competition winner
DOP: Recce Baker

CAMERA OPERATOR/LIGHTING ASSISTANT: ‘Kebab’
2008 48 Hour film competition entry
Starring: Omar Al-Sobky
Company: Eclipse.inc

FOCUS PULLER/CAMERA ASSISTANT: ‘Russian Snark’
Godzone Productions – Feature Length Drama.
DOP: Steven Latty

LIGHTING GAFFER:‘Silver Age’
An independent feature length DV drama.

LIGHTING ASSISTANT/CAMERA ASSISTANT: John’s Hand Cream
Director of Photography: Sean Rundle, Gaffer: Ado Greshof

WRITER / DIRECTOR: Tindal Phillips
Camera Operator: Felipe Moreno

CAMERA OPERATOR / CINEMATOGRAPHER: Night Shift
Director: Reuben King

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DOCUMENTARY

DIRECTOR / CAMERA OPERATOR, Waitaha

CAMERA ASSISTANT, ‘Kete Aronui series 6’ Artist – Brian McDonnell
Camera Operator: Christopher Pryor
Director: Annie Goldson

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SPORTS / OB

CAMERA ASSISTANT, Pasifika Festival
Omnicron Productions
Camera Operator: Michael Zahn

CAMERA ASSISTANT, Polyfest
Omnicron Productions
Camera Operator: Michael Zahn

CABLER for Rugby & Boxing, On Site Broadcasting (OSB) & Sky Sport

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Education

2007 Diploma Majoring in CAMERA, LIGHTING AND AUDIO
South Seas Film and Television School

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Referees

WORK REFEREES

Paul Eversden, Lighting Gaffer 027 568 4401
Spencer Locke Boney 027 291 6090
Christian Dunn 027 361 9588
Annie Goldson, Director, Producer 021 2445 708
Peter Clews, Line Producer. 09 623 7748
Midge Perez, Production manager 021 023 76323

PERSONAL REFEREES

Denese Bates Heaney 09 524 6717
John Haigh 09 520 0365
Matutaera Clendon 09 267 8959
Robert Rewha Willoughby 021 271 4807

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V48 Seconds TRANSFORMERS

This was a short film which won RUNNER UP in the V 48 Seconds Film competition.

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