I'm Not Harry Jenson.

I’m Not Harry Jenson is the debut feature fi lm from Writer / Director James Napier Robertson.
Shot almost entirely on location against the stunning backdrop of New Zealand’s Waitakere
Ranges, it follows the journey of world wide best selling crime novelist and ex pat kiwi
Stanley Merse ( Gareth Reeves - A Song of Good, Underbelly, Insider’s Guide to Love ), as he struggles to overcome a writer’s block which threatens to stall his career.

Evoking the style and pacing of the Noir genre, I’m Not Harry Jenson is essentially a murder mystery with Stanley the prime suspect. Stanley’s success as a novelist has been largely due to his unique style where he writes from the fi rst person perspective of the central characters of his stories, who are always the killers in real-life murder cases.

Troubled by writer’s block, and feeling alienated from the world, Stanley approaches his agent Tom Darby ( Marshall Napier - TheWaterhorse, City Homicide, McLeod’s Daughters, Blue Heelers ) with the possibility of quitting in the middle of his current novel. Worried that the publishers would sue, and that Stanley’s reputation would be ruined, Tom sends him home to New Zealand on a tramping trip to clear his mind.

When he wakes up on the first morning to fi nd a fellow traveller dead, Stanley soon fi nds himself caught up in a real life scenario that is far too reminiscent of one of his own plot lines – with bloodon his hands Merse is faced with the very real possibility that this story may in fact be reality, in his desperation for a story has he in fact crossed the line from fiction to fact?