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Digipost takes a bashing

  • December 2008

    2008 saw Auckland based agencies and production companies being invited to one of the more original corporate gigs this year. Sponsorship of the 2008 Pirate City Rollers all-girl roller derby league by leading post production house DIGIPOST proved a major success.

    Outstanding guest stars on the skates included Steve ‘Silver Barracuda’ Cochran (Colenso BBDO),  Joe ‘Hardcore’ Hawkins (DDB),  Kylie ‘Dolls Eyes’ Green (Digipost), Gary ‘G-Man’ John (Flying Fish),  Billy ‘Brutal’ McQueen (DraftFCB), and all the girls at DDB.

    Saturday night’s league final provided a thrilling end to a highly successful season, as the ‘Blackheart Bruises’ came home to win the title just ahead of 2007 champions ‘Dead Wreckoning’.

    “It’s been a pretty classy affair,” quips DIGIPOST GM Stephen Douglas. “Along with a ring-side view from the ‘Penalty Box’, clients got the finest quality hotdogs, chips and as much canned beer as they could drink”.

    Founded in 2006 and based out of Mount Wellington’s Skateland, the Pirate City Rollers are New Zealand’s first all-girl league.

    Along with ‘Mascara Massacre’, the three league teams are fanatical about their adrenalin sport, with players laying on war paint and strapping on miniskirts, fishnets and hardcore attitudes to match their colourful stage names.

    One such character is ‘Mongrel’, otherwise known as film maker Monica De Alwis. DIGIPOST is collaborating with De Alwis on her upcoming film, ‘Pirates & Pinups’, the first feature-length documentary to take audiences inside the evolution of New Zealand’s roller derby pioneers.

    DIGIPOST is investing considerable post production resources, creative and technical expertise in the project which is being produced by De Alwis’ company Pretty Brutal Productions.

    “Making the decision to collaborate with Monica was a no-brainer,” says Douglas.  “We are constantly looking to engage in projects that are creatively fresh, edgy and internationally relevant. ‘Pirates & Pinups’ ticked all the right boxes for us.”

    The ‘Pirates & Pinups’ trailer will be available soon at: www.prettybrutal.co.nz.