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Auckland
TEQ Talks | Auckland Edition
presented by
VES NZ & the VFX Guild
🗓️ Event Details
Thursday, 30 October
🕕 Networking & Drinks: from 6:00 pm
🎤 Talks Begin: 7:00 pm
🥂 Drinks and nibbles provided at MDS
🎟️ Tickets:
Free for VES members, VFX Guild members & MDS students
$10 – Student (non-member)
$20 – Professional (non-member)
The Visual Effects Society of NZ, VFX Guild of NZ, Media Design School, and the Screen Sound and Music Guild invite you to our first Auckland TEQ Talks — fascinating short talks by innovators & creatives from VFX, sound, animation and beyond, about the topics they’re most passionate about!
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Amanda Davison
Executive VFX Producer, Cause and FX
People Over Pixels: A Producer’s Path Through Visual Effects
Amanda Davison is an Executive VFX Producer with 20+ years of global experience across photoreal VFX, animation, and TV. Since 2017, she’s played a key role in growing Cause and FX into Auckland’s largest VFX studio, known for world-class delivery and trusted client relationships.
Alex Muruo
Filmmaker
Creating a snowy world
Alexander Moruo is a filmmaker, art director and 3D generalist based in Auckland. Across three animated short films, he has earned awards and international acclaim, demonstrating a skill for compelling visuals and narrative. His work bridges animation and culture to create unique animated stories.
Hweiling Ow
Horror Filmmaker
The accidental horror maker: The walking contradiction of someone who never watched horror but now creates it.
Upon arriving in New Zealand, Hweiling Ow was bitten by a radioactive Weta that made her fall stupendously in love with film-making. She has since developed multi-hyphenated skills in the areas of producing, writing, directing and acting, and has been taking the world by storm with her online digital series and short horror films that have garnered millions of views.
Evan Woodruffe
Visual Artist
Our contemporary viewpoint of colour.
Every era has its particular perceptual regime that mediates our relationship to colour,
altering the way we see and respond to our chromatic world. Evan is a visual artist who exhibits across the Asia-Pacific region, including collaborations with BMW Australia and Schmincke Colours, Germany.