Island Productions (Aotearoa) Ltd
I am a Fiji born European. I migrated from Fiji to New Zealand in December 1981 at the age of seventeen to complete my last year of school at Columba College, Dunedin 1982.
I began a Psychology degree at the University of Otago 1983, where I learnt more about social life in New Zealand than about Psychology. I took time off to work and grow up and finished my B.A in Psychology (and Education) at Victoria University, Wellington 1989. It was at Victoria University that I discovered Film.
After leaving University I worked in early childhood education, traveled and took a script writing course at The Royal Collage of Arts, London University.
I returned to New Zealand in 1992 and got my first funded short film off the ground, Olives (1994). Through Olives I met Jamie Selkirk (producer/editor Lord of the Rings trilogy) and applied for work as a trainee assistant editor on his next film, Jack Brown Genius. From there I began a wide and varied career as an editor, director and producer.
In my early career
In the more recent years
For both these documentaries even more gratifying than the film festival attention, as far as serving the New Zealand audience goes, have been the emails of appreciation and requests from schools, government departments and individuals for copies of these documentaries after seeing them either at screenings or on one of their repeated television screenings.