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Royd Tolkien’s - There’s A Hole in My Bucket SOLD OUT at Doc Edge NZ
Shearing the Love - Starring Academy Award Winner
Geoffrey Rush
The Wing - Built for International Co-Productions
Sell out screenings across Doc Edge, New Zealand's Oscar®--qualifying documentary festival, with encore screenings added by demand. When Royd Tolkien — great-grandson of J.R.R. Tolkien — loses his brother to Motor Neurone Disease, he's left one final act of love: a bucket list of 50 challenges that drags him across New Zealand and back into the land of the living. Narrated by Benedict Cumberbatch, with Peter Jackson, Billy Boyd, John Rhys-Davies and Weta Workshop along for the ride.
Theatrical release across Australia and New Zealand through Screen Inc. Available for international distribution.
Details → here
Brian Castlehead; a once-lit, hairdresser to the stars, returns to his rural hometown in New Zealand and enters the Golden Shears - the World
Championship of competitive Sheep Shearing - to avert a family crisis and
prove to his Dad that he's a real man. Tom Hern’s directorial debut, this comedy feature has an ensemble cast including Geoffrey Rush, some of New Zealand's finest talent and Backstreet Boy AJ McLean. In final post production. International sales via Essential Film Group., and theatrical release across Australia and New Zealand through Rialto Distribution.
Read more on Deadline → here
Launched at Cannes 2026, The Wing is a New Zealand post-production and financing company built for international co-productions coming to New Zealand — delivering integrated access to the country's government-backed production rebate. Co-founded by Be Hope Films with Tom Hern and Nua Finau of Tavake Limited. Belindalee Hope, Managing Director.
WORLD PREMIERE
World Premiere at Doc Edge, New Zealand’s Oscar®-qualifying Documentary Film Festival
IMDb
FEATURED WORK
Deauvillle Closing Night Premiere · 9 Awards from 13 nominations · 97% on Rotten Tomatoes
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ABOUT
Belindalee Hope
Belindalee Hope is the founder of Be Hope Films, a production company dedicated to stories haunt, heal and hit hard, told with integrity and impact.
With a background spanning studio blockbusters, indie breakouts, and international television, she brings scale, precision, and creative instinct to every project she leads.
Currently producing Shearing the Love a competitive sheep shearing sports comedy feature starring Oscar Winner Geoffrey Rush (Shine), Dan Musgrove (Westside) and Dom Hetrakul (The White Lotus) and AJ McLean from the Backstreet Boys, alongside some of New Zealand’s finest talent.
Her previous producing work includes the award-winning feature The American (Joika), starring Talia Ryder and Diane Kruger, which premiered as the Closing Night selection at Deauville 2023 and was named Best of Fest at Palm Springs 2024, securing distribution across multiple territories including the U.S. and U.K.
She produced Madam, an internationally acclaimed comedy series starring Rachel Griffiths, which won Best New Comedy Series at Monte Carlo, Content London, the Berlin Series Festival, the Asian Academy Awards, Flickers Rhode Island and sold to Netflix.
As Co-Producer she was part of the team behind TIFF Midnight Madness Award winner on Shadow in the Cloud which secured global release via Hulu.
Belindalee began her career in production management on The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, and King Kong, before transitioning into line-producing on genre standouts like What We Do in the Shadows, Guns Akimbo, and Pork Pie.
Her deep well of production knowledge, international partnerships, and track record of delivering at scale, positions her to anchor even the most ambitious creative visions.
IN DEVELOPMENT
