GATE CRASH (Short Film) d. Paloma Schneideman (2022)
THE WRITER (Silo Theatre) written by Ella Hickson (2022)
FACELESS HAIR CRY (Dance) choreographed by Sofia McIntyre (2020)
Paloma Schneideman (aka PollyHill) is a multi-hyphenate artist based out of Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. Over the last 10 years she has established herself across both music and film, moving between performing, producing, composing, writing, directing, and ultimately - storytelling.
A self-taught musician and producer, PollyHill works mostly electronically, through a combination of sampling and repurposing sounds, using a range of synthesizers, beat pads, and digital audio workstations. In 2017 she began teaching herself production from a hip-hop centric space, but since then, she has branched out into more cinematic, R&B, dance, and experimental genres, releasing two EPs as well as a collaborative album AQUARIES with Samara Alofa - which was listed among Rolling Stone AU's top 30 releases of 2023.
Her thematic interests have always gravitated towards the queer, diasporic, and female experience, as those are the communities in which she most identifies with. Musical touchstones for her are Björk, MFDOOM, James Blake, Arca and Flying Lotus, John Glacier and Liv.E.
PollyHill has played some of Aotearoa's biggest music festivals including Splore, Laneway, The Others Way, Rhythm and Vines, and supported international acts like Arlo Parks, Kae Tempest, and NYC rap legend Wiki.
As a composer, she scored the short film that she directed 'Gate Crash' (2023), which was selected for both NZ International Film Festival’s ‘Best Short’ program, and Melbourne International Film Festival. In 2022 she scored Ella Hickson's ‘The Writer’ staged at the Silo Theatre, to critical acclaim, and in 2020 she scored the dance work ‘Faceless Hair Cry' choreographed by Sofia McIntyre, which went on to win Best Sound Design; at the 2020 Auckland Fringe festival. She has just completed as director and composer, a film adaptation of 'Faceless Hair Cry'.
Her films have been selected for the NZ International Film Festival, Wairoa Maori Film Festival, Tahiti International Film Festival, and she won ‘Best Short’ at the Asian Micro Film Festival. In 2022 she was selected to be part of Netflix-supported Directors’ year-long master-class film intensive 'A Wave in the Ocean' under Dame Jane Campion and Philippa Campbell.