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Louis Sutherland is a New Zealand film, television and advertising director and actor. He is of Samoan and Scottish descent, and based in Wellington. Sutherland studied at Toi Whakaari (The New Zealand Drama School, Wellington) where he worked with childhood friend Mark Albiston, creating a graduation short film.
Bio. Multi-award-winning filmmaker Louis Sutherland works all over the globe. A father of six, he has been called “the child whisperer” for his innate ability to connect with children, drawing out their inherent personalities and spark for film.
Louis Sutherland is a Samoan Kiwi writer and award winning film director. His films, created with childhood friend Mark Albiston, have been awarded internationally at Cannes, Sundance, and the like, with his first feature, “Shopping,” winning the Grand Prix at the Berlin International Film Festival.
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Louis Sutherland was born and raised in Wellington, where he got a taste for storytelling from a very young age after performing in his school play as a show-stealing shrub. Louis graduated from Toi Whakaari, New Zealand’s national drama school.
Having branched out into writing and directing over a decade ago, Louis found international success with his award winning short films Run and The Six Dollar Fifty Man, and his feature debut, Shopping.
Louis Sutherland joins a long line of Kiwi creatives whose talents in one field have aided achievements in others. Though better known internationally as co-creator of festival hit short films Run and The Six Dollar Fifty Man, Sutherland spent much of his early career as an actor, and takes one of the starring roles in the former film.
May 20, 2019 · Louis Sutherland is co-director of award-winning New Zealand short films ‘The Six Dollar Fifty Man' and 'Run'. He is also an actor and writer.
Louis Sutherland is known for Shopping (2013), The Six Dollar Fifty Man (2009) and King Kong (2005).
Abstract. This interview by Ken Plotkin provides a fairly detailed story of the life, education, principal work activity and family of Lou Sutherland.
