2024 wrap up

2024 saw POW Studios complete three major projects, as well as provide for many other pieces of work.

What Will I Be Today series 2, conceived and produced by Marie Silberstein, took the giant leap from audio-only podcast to fully animated tv show. Characters that had been dreamed up in 2018 finally came to life visually on the small screen: TVNZ broadcast and TVNZ+ streamer.

The Rule of Jenny Pen, directed by James Ashcroft and starring Geoffrey Rush and John Lithgow terrified audiences at Spain’s SITGES festival, and has since been stalking its eerie way around the world to much acclaim. Lithgow and Rush have received awards and plaudits for their brilliant performances, as has editor Gretchen Peterson. POW handled all picture and sound post, delivering up to Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos worldwide. As horror authority Steven King has said, if you see one horror film this year, make it this one.

I Am What I Am 2 (Xiong Shi Shao Nian 2) won the critical hearts of audiences in China with its world-class animation and heartfelt narrative. POW delivered all sound post services in Dolby Atmos working closely with Guangzhou animation house, Yi Animation.

We are finishing the year soundtracking and mixing Tim Hamilton’s genre-blending debut feature POP.

Our foley department has been very busy with the above, but also in their own right, providing material for kids’ summer blockbuster A Minecraft Movie; Valentines Day comedy-slasher Heart Eyes and Jordana Stott’s dystopian thriller Forgive Us All.

POW completed long-awaited food soverignty documentary Hua Parakore, providing full picture and sound post. We also completed sound effects for London-based Lipsync on Playdate. This along with our usual contribution to short film including Open Looks and Puli and the Tiger.

POW continues into 2025 with TVNZ paranormal comedy Warren’s Vortex and several yet-to-be-unannounced projects!