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Rookie Awards 2020

The 10th Annual Rookie Awards is open to young creatives in visual effects, animation, games, virtual reality, motion graphics and 3d visualisation. There is simply no better way to launch your career and start sharing your amazing work online.

Rookie Awards 2020
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Jed Brophy

Actor

Jed has been a part of the NZ film industry for 30 years starring in over 40 feature films and shorts. Most notably he has appeared in All of the LOTR movies, Played Nori the dwarf in the Hobbit trilogy, District 9, Heavenly Creatures, Braindead and many others. He played the Dagda Mor in Terry Brooks the Shannara Chronicles for MTV. He also works as a movement coach having trained the leads in Petes Dragon for Disney and has worked as a Mocap performer in films such as Planet of the Apes, Tin Tin and Games such as Heavenly Sword and the Rugby World Cup. Most recently he stared with Mark Hadlow in Blue Moon the first feature film Shot in NZ entirely on an I phone and is currently shooting on the Luminaries TV series for the BBC