Thomas Coppell

Thomas Coppell (they/them) is a film and TV producer & storyteller passionate about empowering & amplifying the voices of under-represented humans, in and behind screen work. They have over a decade’s experience producing factual & scripted content for screens of all shapes and sizes, substantially for young people and the young at heart, and the rainbow community.



Their producing credits include two NZIFF NZ’s Best Short finalists, most recently, teen drama Gate Crash (MIFF, 2023). Thomas has also produced four NZOA funded series; factual comedy ConspiraSeries (2022) for RNZ, and scripted series Happy Playland (2017), Tragicomic (2018) and Little Apocalypse (2023), which Thomas also co-wrote and co-created. Little Apocalypse was made for TVNZ+ and TVNZ2 and is New Zealand’s first children's drama by, for and about rainbow young people.



Alongside their producing mahi Thomas is also an executive board member of SPADA, a founding trustee of Proud Voices on Screen, and the Wellington Regional Manager for the 48Hours Film Competition.

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