Finnius Teppett

FinniusTeppett

Great Southern Television Residency 2023

THE BLACK LIST NZ Participant 2021

FilmUp Script to Screen Mentorship Programme 2020

Locations
Auckland

Bio

Finnius Teppett is a writer/director based in Auckland. He has an MA in Creative Writing (Scriptwriting) from Victoria University's International Institute of Modern Letters, and is an award-winning playwright.  His play My Dad’s Boy was workshopped at New York’s Against the Grain Festival, and opened the Fortune Theatre’s 2017 season. 

Finnius is a creator, writer, and director of RNZ webseries The Citizen’s Handbook, and his NZFC-funded short film Democracy premiered at NZIFF 2020, and was nominated for best screenplay at the Show Me Shorts film festival.

He has been selected for multiple residencies, and mentorship programmes, most notably The Black List NZ project where his screenplay I.O.U. was chosen to be workshopped with US screenwriters Charlie Wachtel (Blackkklansman), Kirsten "Kiwi" Smith (Legally Blonde, 10 Things I Hate About You, The House Bunny), and Phil Hay (Destroyer, The Invitation).

In 2023 he was selected for the Great Southern TV Tāhuna Residency, where he spent a month in Queenstown to work on a television show, and in 2020 he was also selected for the Script to Screen FilmUp programme where he worked on a feature film with mentor, Loren Taylor (The Moon is Upside Down). 

He currently has a feature film in post-production, and multiple television and film projects in development. 

His plays can be read at Playmarket https://www.playmarket.org.nz/...

Experience

Year Production Role Company / Director
ACCEPTED: 2023 Short Film Democracy at the AKFF Prague Festival
ACCEPTED: 2022 Short Film Democracy into ShortCom London & Edinburgh Film Festival
NOMINATED: 2020 Show Me Shorts Best Screenplay for the short film Democracy
2024 Taskmaster NZ S5 Writer Kevin & Co.
2022-present 7 Days Staff Writer The Down Low Concept & Three
2023 Taskmaster Australia S2 Writer Kevin & Co.
2023 Taskmaster NZ S4 Writer Kevin & Co.
2022 The Citizen's Handbook S2 Writer/Director Kevin & Co.
2020 The Citizen's Handbook S1 Writer Kevin & Co.
2020 The Citizen's Handbook : Election Specials Writer & Director Kevin & Co.
2020 Kiddets (TV Series) Writer Pukeko Pictures
2020 Democracy (Short Film) Writer & Director Good Times Company
2023 Tāhuna Residency Queenstown Artist-in-residence Great Southern TV
2021 The Black List NZ Recipient The Black List
2020 FilmUp Mentorship programme Script to Screen
2015 MA (Creative Writing: Scriptwriting) TRAINING Victoria University

Directing Reel

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The Citizen's Handbook S1 (Writer)

View:The Citizen's Handbook S1 (Writer)

The Citizen's Handbook S2 (Writer/Director)

View:The Citizen's Handbook S2 (Writer/Director)