Leanne Pooley

Kiwi filmmaker Leanne Pooley (25 April, The Girl on the Bridge) examines the future impact of artificial intelligence and earnestly asks the question science fiction has posed for decades: will robots become an eventual threat to mankind?

22-year-old suicide survivor and mental health advocate Jazz Thornton tells her and her lost friend's Jess's story in this documentary portrait from award-winning New Zealand filmmaker Leanne Pooley (Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls).

Stories from New Zealanders who served at Gallipoli during the First World War are brought to life in vibrant colour and graphic novel-like animation in this feature directed by Leanne Pooley (Beyond the Edge).

Adventure, a mix of documentary and dramatic reenactments, following Kiwi mountaineering great Sir Edmund Hillary and his ascent of Mt. Everest. In 1953, with Tenzing Norgay, the pair become the first to reach the world's tallest summit.

The Topp Twins hit the big screen in Leanne Pooley's documentary - offering a revealing look into the lives of the world's only yodelling lesbian twin country-and-western singers.