The Logan Park High School award winning film-making duo have a few more years to wait before they leave school, but already they have their career all mapped out.
''We want to make a film about us travelling the world.
''We have dreams about working for film studios like Weta Workshops or a Hollywood film company.
''We haven't decided which one we want to work for yet.''
Last month, they won the Green Ideas Sustainable Lifestyle Award at The Outlook for Someday New Zealand Film Challenge Awards.
Their 58-second film Weekday Vegetarian may have been short, but the judges were impressed with how it highlighted a simple, achievable option for cutting waste and harmful emissions around the world.
''It's a film to make you think, and act,'' the judges said.
The film was selected from more than 130 entries by film-makers aged 24 and under, all over New Zealand.
Both travelled to Auckland to receive the award from special guests, producer Tom Hern and director James Napier Robertson, who recently made the acclaimed film The Dark Horse, starring Cliff Curtis.
Ruby said inspiration for their film came from the fact they were both vegetarians, and they wanted to share the environmental benefits of that with the community.
Essentially, the film's message was meat causes more emissions than all of New Zealand's transport combined.
So if everyone was a weekday vegetarian and gave up meat, it would be the equivalent of 2.3 million cars off the road per day.
''We wanted to create something that was easy for people to understand and gave them enough enthusiasm to try it themselves.''
Both were delighted with the achievement, mainly because it was the third time they had won an award at the competition in the past three years.
''It's pretty unreal to do it again,'' Ruby said.
The pair have been making films together since they were at Warrington Primary School, and their recent success has encouraged them to go into business together.
''We're very close friends and we just love film-making. Any spare time we have is spent on filming,'' Ruby said.
''We want to set up a small business where we create films about self-run businesses and events that are happening about the city.''
That would keep them well occupied until they called it a wrap on school, she said.
