Vote for SEFTMS Alumni Kyan Krumdieck's "The Sisterhood" in TVNZ's New Blood Web Series Competition
Kyan Krumdieck, writer and director of The Sisterhood, studied a BA at VUW from 2009-2012, triple majoring in English, Film and Philosophy. "The Sisterhood" is currently competing with nine other national finalists in TVNZ's New Blood Web Series Competition to get the most votes in the country and win $100,000 of production funding for the first season.
According to the series producer, Sophia Seaton, The Sisterhood is currently the most viewed pilot in the competition and they are working hard to keep it that way so the they can make 7 more episodes. Kyan and his team need your support and your vote to make this happen!
The series stars Amanda Billing (Shortland St, Brokenwood Mysteries and many more) as Diana, one member of a secret sisterhood of women who have the power to time travel when they have sex. Hamish Parkinson (Billy T Award winner and comedian) and Josh McKenzie (Filthy Rich) also feature heavily in the pilot and the series. Diana must host half a dozen of her fellow sisters who arrive in 2017 from all different places and eras, until they can work out how to get home. The pilot episode was made with a tiny budget which came directly out of Kyan and the Producer’s bank accounts and they pulled in a huge amount of favours between January and April this year to get the episode to where it is today.
Kyan truly values the time he spent at Victoria University of Wellington exploring and analysing text to deepen his own work. Harry Ricketts' lectures on The Turn of the Screw are still Kyan's framework for thinking about the role of authorship, and to this day Gulliver's Travels is his favourite book and comedic inspiration after studying it in Kathryn Walls' course.
Kyan got his start in film-making at Victoria, learning how to shoot, edit and write screenplays in the film-making courses, and was particularly inspired by the visual language he learned in the Film Noir class.
The VUW course that most directly inspired him to write The Sisterhood was Cei Maslen's Metaphysics course which covered the Philosophy of Time Travel. Everything Kyan learned in that class formed the spine of The Sisterhood, inspiring him to finally try to tell a time travel story that actually makes logical sense.
Follow this link to watch and VOTE for The Sisterhood: https://www.tvnz.co.nz/shows/tvnz-new-blood/finalists/the-sisterhood
And keep up to date via their Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/TheSisterhoodWebSeries/