TIMPSON FILMS was founded by Ant Timpson.

 

Ant has worked in many facets of the NZ film industry. From managing arthouses, programming for MGM, running drive-ins to operating devolved government film funds and mentoring filmmakers. His distro company released indie hits starting with Slacker in 1993.

 

He created The Incredibly Strange Film Festival in 1994 and 48HOURS national film competition with Peter Jackson as Judge in 2003. Early winners were Gerard Johnstone (M3GAN) and Taika Waititi.

 

As a producer he created the hit anthology series The ABCs of Death (TIFF 13) and the following features either Exec Produced or Produced ; The Devil Dared Me To (SXSW 06), Housebound (SXSW 14), Turbo Kid (Sundance 15), Deathgasm (SXSW 15), The Greasy Strangler (Sundance 16) & The Field Guide to Evil (SXSW 18), Censor (Tribeca 21), Family Dinner (Tribeca 22), Mister Organ (Fantastic Fest 22), She Loved Blossoms More (Tribeca 23). His latest production is Jim Hosking's Ebony & Ivory (Fantastic Fest 24) being released in US Aug 2025.

He directed his critically & multi-award winning feature Come to Daddy (Tribeca 20) and the follow-up Bookworm (Fantastic Fest 24) with Elijah Wood.

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He was the inaugural recipient of New Zealand’s Art Entrepreneur Award of The Year and was a Board member of the New Zealand Film Commission for seven years. His 35mm print archive is the largest personal film archive in the Southern Hemisphere.