Tom Augustine is an award-winning Auckland-based filmmaker and writer. He has been writing film criticism since 2016, including a regular film column, The Weekend in Film, for the New Zealand Herald’s Canvas Magazine until early 2020. Tom’s writing has appeared in Little White Lies, The New Zealand Herald, The Spinoff, North & South, Metro Magazine, The Pantograph Punch, and others, while his directorial work has been profiled in Clash Magazine, Stuff, and The Spinoff. Tom is the recipient of a NZ Writers Guild Seed Advanced Grant and was recently selected for the inaugural Tāhuna Writers Residency in Queenstown. He currently programs the monthly Capitol Cinema Film Club with filmmaker Amanda Jane Robinson.
