Meet the Team

Kathy Christopher

Kathy joined Screentime in July 1999 after 15 years in the radio industry. She and her team take care of all aspects of company finance and office administration... in between keeping the executive director in line!

Philly de Lacey

Philly de Lacey is Executive Director and Head of Production at Screentime Limited. She has a long and varied history in television production going back over ten years. She is a television Producer and Director and is responsible for all Screentime NZ productions.

Philly has Produced and Executive Produced a raft of award winning programmes including the ever popular reality / crime solving programme Police Ten 7 for 8 years. She has also Executively Produced Anzac Day Na Ratou Mo Tatou - They Did it For Us, Anzac Day 2007, Beyond the Darklands series one, two and three, The Missing, Ten 7 Crime Investigation, Marae DIY and is currently Executive Producer of the feature film (and mini-series) Ice and the telly feature Bloodlines.

Philly has been integral in the company’s success over the last four years and has seen Screentime NZ go from strength to strength.

John Keir

Starting out as a reporter for the NZBC in Christchurch in the 1970s, John has since made his way north and picked up a wealth of experience as a producer and director along the way.

His early independent documentary production credits include "Flight 901: The Erebus Disaster" and "The Aphrodisiac Trail", an investigation into the lucrative trade in deer antler velvet between New Zealand and Asia.

In drama, John has produced a variety of short films, two of which won Special Jury Prizes at the Cannes Film Festival two years running. Then, in 1996 he produced the theatrical feature "Chicken" a $NZ2.7m New Zealand/German co-production directed by Grant Lahood.

He produced Our Oldest Soldier (the "Curly Blyth story" New Zealand's longest surviving WW1 veteran) which played on Anzac Day 2002.

Sami Booth

Having been exported from the UK eighteen years ago, Sami has been part of the Screentime team for just over six years and is now working in a development role , so if you have any ideas for a television show, she is the one to contact.

Steve King

Steve has over 20 years experience in the corporate communication and video production industry, producing and directing hundreds of corporate videos and television commercials all around the Pacific rim. His work has garnered numerous local and international awards including 2 MCA-I Gold Reels, 2 Silver and 5 Bronze Telly Awards, 2 IBA Stevies and a NZ 48HR Film Film Making Apee. This success has led to him being invited to join the Telly Awards Silver Council to judge the 2010 Telly Awards.

He's a long-time member of the NZ Film and Video Technicians Guild (NZFVTG) and has represented the Guild on the board of the Academy of Film And Television Arts (AFTA) and the UNITEC Postgraduate Diploma in Performing and Screen Arts advisory committee. Steve is also a member of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce, past Chairman of the Northern Area Performing Theatre Awards, was an industry representative on the advisory committee for the Digital Video Production Diploma of the NZ Media Design School, and was an Industry Panelist for the school's 2009 and 2010 Diploma of Visual Effects and Motion Graphics.

A past National President of the International Television Association of New Zealand (ITVA-NZ) he is currently President-Elect of the parent organisation, MCA-I in the United States with a particular focus on improving value and relevance to international members. He has also been a festival juror at both National and International level for the Association.

As a side-bar, Steve has also performed as an actor and singer in more than a dozen theatre productions- both professional and non-professional- acted in television dramas (including a reoccurring role in New Zealand's longest running soap "Shortland Street") and non-broadcast videos, directed for stage, and fronted a 14-piece show-band, so experience working with performers and directors, and an in-depth understanding of theatrical production, are further assets he brings to Screentime's communications division.

Michael Morris

As well as being Steve's 2IC Michael is primarily responsible for Communications Sales, Screentime's Online Video Delivery Network, and Screentime Studio.

He's had more than twelve years experience working for media related companies and was previously an account manager at Sky Television, as well as establishing his own digital media consultancy, before joining the dynamic Screentime Communications team in 2008.

Michael is a graduate of Unitec's School of Performing and Screen Arts, a producer of 14 independent film and theatrical productions, an actor with numerous theatre, film, television and voice-over credits, and has written three successfully presented plays.