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The House of Seville (2011)

Watch "The House of Seville" (18 min) on Youtube
An animated mock horror ghost story movie based partly on "Carmen".


Book publication - June 2021

The Master Weaver (2021)

Tales of the fantastic for grownups
Written and illustrated by Bronwyn Calder
Editing and publishing processes by John Calder
More about "The Master Weaver"

Read "Gift of the Sea", a complete sample story from "The Master Weaver"


IAFilm Update - end of 2020 - focus on "post"

IAFilm is very active - with the "post production" of our indie feature "Brave Love".

Edit and FX for our "mock epic" is a "major mission" but progress is good at the end of 2020 after a slow previous 2 years. We get an insight as to why epic movie FX get very many names in the credits. Intensive "post" makes us low noise in public just now but that will change as we get near release. On the "todo list" for then is an overhaul of this website. Regard it in the meantime as mainly archive and see our blog and Youtube for the latest with us:

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About "Brave Love" the movie - in 2015



We are on the great indie adventure - living the dream - making our no-budget feature movie.

Shooting started 09 Oct 2013.  I have held back from public discussion until now when completion is looking good.  We have been taking on an ambitious mock epic. Time and time again we have faced impossible barriers then dramatically, ingeniously and heroically have rescued the production.  Or putting it another way, a normal indie no-budget collaborative experience.

Aimed initially at film festivals. Experimental in its extensive use of green screens to shoot most of the scenes in one borrowed classroom over our New Zealand(NZ) summer break.  Has "green screen" technology trickled down far enough that we can make it work for this? Let's do it to find out! [Adding notes later as shooting nears completion - takes a lot of time but it is working ...]

IMO this story, written then lost 100 years ago, on rediscovery scores remarkable hits on issues that are relevant today. Katherine Mansfield (KM) is big on The Gap Between Rich and Poor. I also bring in the global warming debate as sparking conflict between the characters. This is mainly achieved by taking KM's banker villain and changing his occupation to oil company chief.

The script is my adaptation of classic literature into a present day setting. Inspired partly by the "Shakespeare Retold" (2005) TV Plays. Includes material mainly from Katherine Mansfield (NZ, UK, Stories and notebooks, 98-118 years ago), also Jonathan Swift ("Gulliver's Travels", 294 years ago) and William Shakespeare (410-430 years ago). What emerges is a satirical big-business mock epic set in the imaginary oil boom city of Lagado, 300 years after first contact with Britain via Lemuel Gulliver.

Why make a feature when it is so difficult?  Because it is so difficult?  Partly!  Also the democratisation of film-making is now giving us a flood of short films.  eg The Winterthur Short Film Festival recently had over 5000 entries chasing only 41 screening opportunities. Features need a big human organisational effort regardless of how accessible the tech gets, so there may yet be time to stand out from the smaller crowd going the feature way.  Also we have had some film festival successes with short films.  To us that means that growing and developing means taking on the monster challenge of the feature.

To creative enthusiasts in Auckland, NZ - we are now moving into "second unit" filming where we need supporting role actors and extras and more crew help.  We mostly hold day jobs and film at night so to all you enthusiasts with day jobs, here is your big opportunity.  For info, audition or interview, find us via



IMO most no-budget narrative movies are either 2-actor intense unusual-relationship dramas or horror-zombie-vampire attempts to repeat the breakthrough success of Peter Jackson in the late 1980s. Time for something different.  In The Guardian article "The Burning Question" - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/sep/24/featuresreviews.guardianreview29
Robert Macfarlane asks "where is the literature of climate change?"   OK so modern writers are not up to this challenge so let's bring in the power of classic literature - who you gonna call?  Katherine Mansfield!


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