creative research

Clare O'Leary - Director
Phone: +64 4 971 9609
Mobile: 027 311 0608

Clare's Blog

I founded Eve Bay Studio in 2005 to specialise in research into the creative industries, digital culture, gender and technology innovation. I am a documentary filmmaker and have also been involved the creation of many mixed media resources of subjects as diverse as sexual health to science and technology and digital culture.

Documentaries

I recently completed a documentary about writer/historian Michael King which I actually shot in 1991! It's a real archive treasure and I worked with producer Glenis Giles to get it happening. The Film Commission contributed some post-production funding when it was accepted to screen in this years International Film Festival which was fantastic. Michelle Scullion wrote a beautiful soundscape and Sam O'Leary designed the titles. It was edited by Simon Reece.
Michael King - A Moment in Time screened in Auckland and Wellington - in Wellington we also had discussion afterwards. More details of my documentary work is outlined in my occasional blog ...
We are currently designing the DVD and looking for interest from a broadcaster. In time it will be available from Filmshop, a new online sales site established by Simon Reece at The Dub Shop.
In 2006, I worked with OliverGILES Productions to co-direct with Lala Rolls a 13 part science series, QTV, currently screening on TV ONE at 3.35 on Wednesdays. This is the first science programme to be on our screens for kids for over 10 years. QTV media release (Word document)
In 2006 I co-directed a DVD, Q Careers, profiling 10 scientists from New Zealand in the fields of marine science, forensics and agriculture.

Creative & Digital Industries - Strategy & Research

In February 2007 I started a new contract with NZ On Air, primarily to develop their digital strategy. It's been an amazing year of change in the broadcasting world and all I can say is 'watch this space'. www.nzonair.govt.nz
At the end of 2006 I was commissioned to write a report for Positively Wellington Business - Television Meets You Tube. It summarises the shifts and changes across the television and new media landscape from a NZ perspective [download the PDF].
In 2006 I researched papers on the definition of digital content and scoping the digital content sector in NZ for the National Library's National Digital Content Strategy, www.digitalstrategy.govt.nz, www.natlib.govt.nz
I worked as a Creative Sector Specialist and Manager for New Zealand Trade & Enterprise from 2001-5 working on creative industries strategy and identifying and working with emerging digital industries, in particular, the computer games industry.

Professional Memberships

member of Women in Film & Television, WIFT.
actively involved with an international documentary filmmakers group from developing and developed countries around the world, Television for the Environment.
I facilitated the first meeting of the New Zealand Game Developers Association and facilitated alongwith Frances Valintine from Media Design School, the first Girls & Games Symposium in Auckland in 2004.

Tech Angels

I am working with the Tech Angels at Wellington Girls College, a project where young women learn new skills in ICT and teach the teachers as they learn.

Research

I am currently researching papers on the definition of digital content and scoping the digital content sector in NZ for the National Library's National Digital Content Strategy, www.digitalstrategy.govt.nz, www.natlib.govt.nz
I am preparing to do my PhD at Victoria University of Wellington. My research topic is "Portraits & Patterns: Digital Culture, Gender & Technology Innovation".
I have a particular interest in the need for a research platform for the creative, design and digital sectors in New Zealand. Discussion paper about the need for R & D in the Creative Sector - Towards Creative Inquiry.

Film & Videography

Michael King: A Moment in Time, screened in the International Film Festival in Auckland and Wellington. The DVD is currently in production. Contact www.filmshop.co.nz for further details.
Queens of Content: a ten minute documentary for BBC World Life Series which was also submitted as part of my Masters in Communications degree. Screened on the BBC World Life series (Also screened at the UNESCO/TVE Beijing +5 series on Women in New York, 2001)
The Sound of a Painting: a short film featuring the work of Ralph Hotere accompanied by four NZ poets reading their work: Hone Tuwhare, Cilla McQueen, Ian Wedde & Bill Manhire.
A Double Standard: TV3 prime time doco about the sex industry in New Zealand from both the sex workers and the clients perspective.
Sold on Safe Sex: [R18] A professional educational safe sex video for new sex workers entering the industry - written by and made in collaboration with NZPC.
A Class Act : documentary about controversial working class playwright, Mervyn Thompson, advocate of getting New Zealand stories onto the NZ stage.Screened at 1995 International Film Festival in the NZ programme.
Michael King: An extensive interview with Michael King, social historian/biographer.
Groundwork: a corporate doco exploring issues of women working in the traditional male area of the Kimberly Diamond Mine in Northern Territory, Australia. (BP)
Overlocked & Underpaid: doco for SBS-TV, Australia, about migrant women working in the clothing trade in Australia - in association with opera and folkloric singer, Rita Menendez.
Raw Energy: a short stylised film about the Cherynobyl nuclear disaster.
Writers: an ongoing collection of interviews and profiles of NZ writers and artists.
A number of other educational and corporate videos on various arts/social/technological issues , interactive installations and publishing projects also through this time.