Directors
by michael-davis-742-962934 | created - 16 Aug 2014 | updated - 16 Aug 2014 | Public
1. James Napier Robertson
Actor | The Dark Horse
James Napier Robertson is a New Zealand director and writer. He started his career as a theatre actor in Shakespeare productions, before being cast in a number of TV roles in the early 2000's. He began writing and directing short films in his early twenties, before making his first feature film in ...
2. Michael Mann
Producer | The Insider
As a director, screenwriter, and producer, four-time Academy Award nominee Michael Mann has established himself as one of the most innovative and influential filmmakers in American cinema. After writing and directing the Primetime Emmy Award-winning television movie The Jericho Mile (1979), Mann ...
3. Andrew Dominik
Director | Chopper
Andrew Dominik was born on October 7, 1967 in Wellington, New Zealand. He is a director and writer, known for Chopper (2000), Blonde (2022) and Killing Them Softly (2012).
4. Robert Sarkies
Director | Scarfies
Born in Dunedin, Robert Sarkies is an acclaimed New Zealand filmmaker, scriptwriter and director. Sarkies is well known among the NZ film industry and is best known for his hard-hitting crime drama 'Out Of The Blue' (2006) about the 1990 Aramoana shootings of which he was born not too far away from.
5. Toa Fraser
Director | No. 2
Toa Fraser is known for Naming Number Two (2006), Sweet Tooth (2021) and Dean Spanley (2008).
6. Lee Tamahori
Director | Once Were Warriors
Beginning as a commercial artist and photographer, he joined the New Zealand film industry in the late 1970s as a boom operator. He became an assistant director a decade later. Making international award-winning commercials for 10 years, he has also directed several TV series. His first feature ...
7. Niki Caro
Director | Whale Rider
Niki Caro is a New Zealand film director and screenwriter, born in 1967. Caro was born in Wellington, the capital city of New Zealand. She was educated first at the Kadimah College in Auckland, and then the Diocesan School for Girls in Auckland. The School is a private girls' school, and ranks ...
8. Jane Campion
Writer | Bright Star
Jane Campion was born in Wellington, New Zealand, and now lives in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Having graduated with a BA in Anthropology from Victoria University of Wellington in 1975, and a BA, with a painting major, at Sydney College of the Arts in 1979, she began filmmaking in the early...
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