Two Promax Silvers 10 / 2011

The launch of FOUR wins two Promax silvers in Sydney: “Channel Brand of the Year” and “Best Television Image Campaign”.

Best Design Awards, Silver & Bronze 08 / 2011

Four wins silver and bronze at the Best Design Awards.

Three films on the Rialto Channel 07 / 2011

Off the back of Sale St Shorts, New Zealand’s greatest film cable channel Rialto Channel, buys broadcasting rights for Matinée, Airhead and Read More…

Matinee & Airhead in double-bill at Sale St Shorts 03 / 2011

Matinée and Airhead screen as the two shortest shorts at Ant Timpson’s Sale St Shorts mini festival.

Launches new channel for Mediaworks TV 02 / 2011

Arvid joins Mediaworks (TV3, C4 & FOUR) as Senior Creative and launches the new channel Four. Work include brand development, on-air imagery, station idents, content and brand promotion. Read More…

Crafting a Meaningful Home Book Trailer 11 / 2010

San Francisco based photographer Thayer Allyson Gowdy asked me to cut and post-produce a promo for the launch of Meg Mateo Ilasco’s book Crafting a Meaningful Home.

Let Go screens at the re-opening of ‘The Vic’ in Devonport 10 / 2010

The Victoria Picture Palace was build in 1912 and was the the first purpose build cinema in New Zealand and possibly the southern hemisphere. Today it is re-opening it’s doors Read More…

Promax gold and bronze 06 / 2010

Maori Television’s “Explore Your Imagination” campaign wins gold and bronze at the Promax Bda Promotion & Marketing World Awards 2010. The campaign was awarded gold in the category “Children’s Program Campaign”, and bronze in “Children’s Program Spot – Live Action”.

Eradescape – Official Section of the 36 Badalona Film Festival 04 / 2010

Eradescape will screen at Badalona Film Festival which is held from the 5th to 13th of November 2010 in Barcelona, Spain. www.festivalfilmets.cat

Promax nomination 09 / 2009

Arvid is nominated for Best Children’s Promo in the Promax/BDA awards 2009 for his ‘Explore Your Imagination’ image idents of Maori Television.

Co-directs music video ‘Idong’ 07 / 2009

Arvid teams up with Swedish director and old friend David Giese and shoots a music video for “Idong” by Maher & Sousou Cissoko. Check it out here!

Stop-Frame Animation 03 / 2009

Arvid DOP re-enacted scenes for documentary

Worldwide distribution of Eradescape 07 / 2008

Italian distribution “Vitagraph” starts distributing Eradescape on a worldwide basis.

Platonic at Clermont-Ferrand 02 / 2008

Platonic screens in The Short Film Market at world famous Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival in France.

Arvid relocates to Auckland, New Zealand 01 / 2008

Arvid relocates to Auckland, New Zealand, to develop a feature film script and explore other opportunities down under.

Airhead & Matinee, Pay-Per-View 11 / 2007

In a distribution deal with an Italian Mobile Phone Network, Airhead and Matinee will be distributed as Pay-Per-View films.

Airhead and Matinee in Best-of-DepicT 09 / 2007

Airhead and Matinee are selected by Bristol Int. Film Festival to be included in a Best-of-DepicT showcase. The films will be screened at Uppsala Int. Film Festival in Sweden.

Arvid at Canal Plus, Scandinavia 05 / 2007

Arvid starts new contract at Canal Plus in Stockholm, directing film trailers and channel identity

Platonic premieres at the REX Cinema, Soho, London 05 / 2007

Arvid screens Platonic at the REX Cinema in Soho to a busy crowd of about 160 people.

World-wide distribution 04 / 2007

Vitagraph in Italy closes deal with Instrument Films to distribute Let Go, Matinee, and Airhead world-wide!

Representation 02 / 2007

Flynn Productions in London starts representing Arvid as a director.

Finished shooting Platonic 12 / 2006

Arvid has just finished filming an 8 min short film, “Platonic”. The film will be ready for the international film festivals by end of March 2007. We’ll keep you posted Read More…

SILVERTOWN is short listed for grant 07 / 2006

SILVERTOWN is short listed for the Newham Film Office’s grant and will go through workshops throughout August. Production is set to start in September.

SILVERTOWN documentary proposal is finalised and handed in to Newham Film Office. 05 / 2006

LET GO, broadcast rights sold to Canal+ in Spain. 03 / 2006

Let Go get’s 35mm grant 02 / 2006

LET GO gets grant from Swedish Film Institute for blow up to two 35mm prints to be shown at Folkets Bio cinemas around Sweden. Premiere April 2006.

Arvid is invited as one of the talents at Berlinale Talent Campus 01 / 2006

LET GO, Scandinavian broadcast rights sold to Viasat Broadcasting Ltd. 10 / 2005

LET GO & MATINEE, broadcast rights sold to Canal+ in France. 10 / 2005

MATINEE, webrights sold to Lovefilm. 10 / 2005

LET GO is selected for the ‘Best of Raindance East’ 06 / 2005

LET GO is selected for the ‘Best of Raindance East’ selection in Raindance’s new initiative with Tiscali.

Arvid joins Tundra Group 04 / 2005

Arvid will be joining as live action director and editor. Please check out what Tundra’s up to at www.tundragroup.com

LET GO is selected for Raindance East Film Festival. 03 / 2005

LET GO wins best short film at the South Korean Film festival eMotion. 09 / 2004

LET GO makes the final short list to Rushes Soho Shorts Festival 2004. 06 / 2004

Premiere of LET GO at The Other Cinema, London. 06 / 2004

Shortlisted for DepitcT 11 / 2003

Mainée is shortlisted for DepitcT, part of Brief Encounters, Bristol.

AIRHEAD is shortlisted for DepitcT 2002 11 / 2002