Justin Eade 

Justin Eade is a screenwriter and film producer from New Zealand with 26 feature length film scripts to his name. In addition to writing feature screenplays he has also written, produced and directed short films and stage plays. 

In 2011 he won the Kairos Prize screenplay competition in Hollywood, and that script ‘Blue Water Metal’, was optioned in the US in 2016. 

In 2018 he won Best Film at the Top of the South Film Festival for a short film ‘Opal Valley’, and in 2019 won again for ‘Death Round Every Bend’. In 2021 he again won Best Film in the TSFF for ‘War Paint’, which has also won Best Film at Festivals around the world, including in Berlin and New York. 

In 2023 his first feature film ‘Northspur’, which has had a theatrical release in New Zealand, sold US rights to Lionsgate, and is now beginning to sell in territories around the world including the UK, Germany, the CIS and Latin America. 

Justin has a slate of 9 feature films in development for the future.