2023 Transgenerations
Trajectory Media NZME New Zealand
Following generations of Transgender people this eight part series chronicles, over the course of seven decades, the changes that went to create a greater acceptance of Trans people in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Director Cameraman
2022 Massive Engineering Mistakes
Brightspark Discovery United Kingdom
From the extraordinary to the ridiculous, this series uncovers the epic fails and near misses
engineers would rather not talk about.
Producer Director Cameraman
2022 Young Ocean Explorers
Greenstone TV Hei Hei TVNZ Aotearoa New Zealand
Presenter Riley Hathaway leads this fun adventure underwater series discovering the importance of conserving Aotearoa New Zealand’s seas and shores.
Cameraman
2022 Explorers Club
Greenstone TV Hei Hei TVNZ Aotearoa New Zealand
Hosted by Sonny Ngatai three teenagers take an epic journey following in the footsteps of Sir Edmund Hilary to climb the mountains around Mount Aoraki, challenging their stamina and reliance.
Cameraman
2021 - 2022 No Place Like Home
Trajectory Media Stuff TVNZ Aotearoa New Zealand
As Covid 19 rages overseas New Zealanders make the difficult decision to leave their careers and friends. This six part series traces their struggle as they come to terms with coming back and finding a place they can call home.
Director Cameraman
2021 Great Scenic River Journeys
BrightSpark Channel 5 United Kingdom
From its mountainous lakeland source in New Zealand, this one-hour film follows the Mighty Buller River and the characters associated with its history, through stunning geography of rapids and steep gorges right down to the wild ocean.
Producer Director Cameraman
2021 Swipe Match Murder
ITN Channel 5 United Kingdom
Investigative two-part documentary into the British tourist who disappeared New Zealand in 2018 using CCTV and extensive police interviews reveals how the killer Jesse Kempson tried and failed to hide the murder.
Producer
2021 Journey of the Warrior
IFA Media Tencent China
Mixing the genres of survival, adventure and history these six half shows set in China dramatically trace the epic journeys of modern day military struggles hosted by an bushcraft expert, Josh James, and a well known celebrity.
Showrunner
2021 Great Scenic Train Journeys of the World
BrightSpark Channel 5 United Kingdom
Recording the historic journey along the spectacular Taieri George to Dunedin and along the rich Otago coastline this one hour film tracks the eventful history of the railway line through the eyes of both crew and passengers.
Producer Director Cameraman
2020 The New Resistance
Vice USA
As part of a film series examining how young people are standing up for themselves New Zealand activist Shaneel Lal successfully fights to have the practise of gay conversion therapy banned.
Director Cameraman
2020 Criminal Planet New Zealand Gangs
Vice UK
With the explosion of methamphetamine causing havoc in New Zealand society this one hour documentary investigates the drugs trail from the Mexican Sinaloa cartel through a deadly network of kiwi bike gangs.
Producer Director Cameraman
2020 Great Scenic Train Journeys of the World
BrightSpark Channel 5 United Kingdom
Travelling from Auckland to Wellington this spectacular one hour film tracks the eventful history of the railway line through the eyes of both crew and passengers.
Producer Director Cameraman
2019 - 2020 Sharks Vs Surfers
Natural History New Zealand National Geographic USA
One hour documentary investigating the reasons behind the rising shark attacks on surfers around the world.
Producer
2019 -2020 High Tide Don't Hide
Independent The Rebel Film Collective
Feature documentary following five teenagers as they organise the largest climate strike in New Zealand’s history. Producer Director Cameraman
2019 Great Scenic Train Journeys of the World
BrightSpark Channel 5 United Kingdom
Following the breath-taking Transalpine rail crossing of the New Zealand Alpine range this one hour film explores how the crew and passengers experience one of the world’s greatest journeys.
Executive Producer Director Cameraman
2019 The Story of Rugby
Desert Road Productions TVNZ Aotearoa New Zealand
A six part series tracing the history of rugby from its roots to the modern day with particular focus on the role of class, race and gender on its formation.
Edit Producer
2019 My Next Challenge
Sisu Productions Reale Film Festival - Best Documentary
New York Independent Cinema Awards - Best International Feature Documentary
Alain Robert is the central character of this one hour film exploring the life of the human Spiderman who has made his name from climbing the world’s tallest buildings.
Editor
2018 Destination Conservation
New Generation Group American Public Broadcasting Service USA
Four part series taking teenagers to volunteer with endangered animals in Borneo in the attempt to bring wildlife from the brink of extinction.
Director Producer Cameraman
2018 Intake
Diva Productions Maori Tv Aotearoa New Zealand
Based at New Zealand army camp, this seven part observational documentary series charts the latest batch of raw recruits from arrival to their march out.
Cameraman Editor Edit Producer
2018 Grand Designs
Imagination TV3 Aotearoa New Zealand
Headline series following people as they build their dream house while balancing their budget and building regulations.
Cameraman
2017 Wildlife 24
Blink Films Blue Ant Canada
Series of natural history films set in the Amazon investigating its ecosystems and animals in the rainforest.
Director Producer Cameraman
2017 Spurred On
Gibson Group TVNZ Aotearoa New Zealand/Canada
One hour investigative documentary following actor Dean O’Gorman from Auckland to the fields of Flanders as he pieces together the last hours of four brothers in the battles of Passchendaele.
Director Edit Producer
2017 Man of the Forest
Orangutan Appeal UK United Kingdom
Campaign documentary for the British charity saving critically endangered orangutans from extinction in the rainforest of Borneo.
Producer Cameraman Editor
2017 Islands of the Gulf
Top Shelf TVNZ Aotearoa New Zealand
Writer and actress Elizabeth Easter retraces the footsteps of her mother who made New Zealand’s first documentary series in 1964 about the islands in the Hauraki Gulf.
Cameraman
2017 China From Above
NHNZ National Geographic Smithsonian China/USA
After China first opened up its skies to aerial footage, National Geographic was allowed to chronicle its remarkable landscapes, and tell the everyday stories of people across this hidden continent.
Director
2016 The Kleptocrats
Roast Beef Films Channel 4 United Kingdom
This undercover documentary follows how the Malaysian Prime Minister was part of the world biggest financial scam incriminating top politicians, Hollywood executives and actor Leonardo Di Caprio.
Cameraman
2016 Arabian Inferno
Blink Films Blue Planet Canada/United Kingdom
Ten part observational documentary series filming Arabia’s hidden and secretive wildlife in their struggle for survival in one of the harshest environments on the planet.
Producer Director Camera
2016 Meet the Penguins
Blink Discovery Animal Planet United Kingdom
Eight part Observational series following the rehabilitation of injured and orphaned Penguins in South Africa.
Producer Director Camera
2015 Secrets of Wild Australia
Blink Films Blue Ant Canada
Twenty part observational documentary series tracking Australia’s iconic animals in their struggle for survival.
Producer Director Camera
2015 The Bachelor New Zealand
Warner Brothers Eyeworks TV3 Aotearoa New Zealand
Twenty one women battle it out for the attention of one eligible Bachelor in his search for true love in this sixteen part reality series.
Edit Director
2014 Salvage Hunters
Cineflix Quest Channel United Kingdom
On a mission to hunt down forgotten treasures salvage dealer Drew Pritchard scours castles, lock ups and the attics of the UK in this ten part restoration series.
Producer Director
2013 -2014 Meet the Orangutans
Blink Discovery Animal Planet
Eight part Observational documentary series following the rehabilitation of orangutans back into the wild.
Producer Director Camera
2012 True Stories – Star Trek
Blink Films BBC Worldwide Smithsonian Channel Arte Five
One hour documentary on the largest multi billion dollar media franchise in history and its influence on science.
Producer Director Camera
2012 Classic Car Rescue
Blink Films Discovery Channel 5 United Kingdom/Canada
Mechanics Bernie and Mario search for rusting wrecks to turn them back to their former glory.
Producer Director
2012 Heaven on Earth
Blink Films Channel 5 United Kingdom
Ten part upmarket travel series journeying to the most heavenly resorts and locations on Earth.
Camera Producer Director
2011 Freaks and Creeps
National Geographic Television USA
Series with Zoologist Lucy Cooke discovering the evolutionary path of some of the world's oddest animals.
Producer Director
2011 The House of Sloths
Blink Films Discovery BBC United Kingdom
Winner Panda Award Wildscreen Festival
An Observational Documentary at a sloth sanctuary in Costa Rica telling a Romeo and Juliet story of love and hope for one of the cutest and slowest animals known to science.
Cameraman
2010 Haiti’s Miracle Baby
Roast Beef Films Channel 4 United Kingdom
Extraordinary story of a Haitian baby found by an English surgeon after the 2010 earthquake and the quest to find her true mother.
Cameraman
2010 Invite Mr Wright
Roast Beef Films Discovery Channel Singapore
Six part series following traveller Ian Wright as he is invited into the homes of the famous across Asia.
Camera Director Producer Editor
2010 Walking the Wall
Roast Beef Films Independent Feature Documentary United Kingdom
Activist comedian Mark Thomas walks the entire length of Israel’s 750 kilometre security barrier tracing the stories of the people affected on both sides of the West Bank.
Camera Director Producer
2009 Setara The Fallen Star
Roast Beef Films HBO USA
A film about Setara, the main protagonist in the Afghan Star documentary, coping with the prejudices of being a singer and a single mother in Afghanistan.
Camera
2009 Vote Afghanistan
Roast Beef TV Channel 4 United Kingdom
Feature documentary on the three main contenders to Hamid Karzai in the fraud ridden Afghan elections.
Camera
2009 Psychic Academy
Glasshead Productions History Channel United Kingdom
Six parter series following psychic Tony Stockwell training paranormal novices to make contact with the dead.
Director Producer
2008 Soho Blues
Folio TV Channel 5 United Kingdom
Observational Documentary series following London’s Metropolitan Police in Soho’s red light district tackling serious crime and drugs in the heart of the capital’s sex industry.
Editor
2008 Rough Guide Ultimate Escapes
Lion TV Channel Five United Kingdom
Set in Nicaragua and Venezuela comedian Dom Joly's and Olympian James Cracknell's ultimate destinations.
Cameraman Director Producer
2008 Afghan Star
Roast Beef TV Channel 4
Winner Sundance Festival
Feature length documentary on young people recovering their culture after 30 years of war through Afghanistan’s answer to Pop Idol.
Cameraman
2007 Mark and Olly with the Mek
Cicada Films Discovery USA
Eight part series with extreme explorers living in the Highlands of West Papua to become part of the Mek tribe.
Producer Director and Camera
2006- 2008 The Deadline
Winner Best Independent Film International Wildlife Film Awards.
One hour independent feature doc following Greenpeace tracking down pirate fishing boats in West Africa.
Director Producer Camera Editor
2006 -2007 Beginner’s Guide to Yoga
Cicada Films Channel 4
Presenter Jayne Middlemiss’s search for a deeper meaning of Yoga in her voyage to India.
Director Producer
2006 -2007 CSI Wild Shark Finning
Cicada Films Discovery
Winner Best Environmental Film, Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Awards.
Special eco agent Steve Galster goes undercover to track down the main players in the shark finning industry.
Director Producer Camera
2005 Reign of Terror
ITN Factual National Geographic USA
Three one hour series tracing how mobile phone, video and internet technologies are used by terror groups.
Director Producer
2004 - 2005 Snap! A History Of The Paparazzi
Unicorn Productions Channel 5 United Kingdom
Presented by Andrew Morton this one hour doc follows the rise of the Paparazzi over the last fifty years.
Director Producer
2004 Terror Target Britain
ITN Channel 5 United Kingdom
Drama documentary investigating the threat of terrorist attacks in the UK based on the Al Qaeda training manual.
Director
2003 Sort-It-Out-Man
Outline Productions BBC United Kingdom
Planet Sorted sends its finest super heroes to Earth to put things right using hidden cameras.
Director
2003 Curse of Friends Reunited
Betty TV Channel 5 United Kingdom
Series of stories set in a one hour documentary, on how Friends Reunited’s website puts a curse on various people’s lives.
Director
2003 Bad Boys of Comedy
Chrysalis TV Channel 5 United Kingdom
Three One Hour films on some of Britain’s most infamous comedians, Jim Davidson, Freddie Starr and Bernard Manning.
Director
2003 Jean Claude Van Damme
Chrysalis TV Channel 5 United Kingdom
One hour documentary Biography on the famous Kick Boxing Belgium Hollywood Star.
Director
2002 Animal Tragic
First Circle Films Channel 5 United Kingdom
One hour documentary profiling extreme modification where people are changing their appearance to look like animals.
Director
2002 The Great Stink
Uden Associates Channel 5 United Kingdom
History of Sewage disposal in Victorian Britain during the great cholera outbreak presented by Sir Peter Bazalgette.
Producer Director
2001 - 2002 Bombay Blush
Brighter Films BBC2 United Kingdom
Comedy and Entertainment series set in Mumbai exploring mainstream Indian culture.
Series Director
2001 Lost
Windfall Films Channel 4 United Kingdom
Survival Travel Series where teams are left at an unknown location and then race back to London without money or maps.
Director Camera
2000 We are Britain
Rapido TV Channel 4 United Kingdom
Documentary on children lives in Britain.
Series Director Editor
2000 S Club 7 Go Wild
At it Productions BBC1 United Kingdom
Series of three documentaries where S Club 7 go in search of endangered animals in South East Asia.
Director
1999 Orangina Advert
Leith Agency Television Commercial United Kingdom
Three Silver Rose Awards for Best Commercial
Director
1999 Art in the National Gallery
2020 Productions Channel 4 United Kingdom
Five 20 minute programmes for C4 Schools on paintings in London's National Gallery.
Series Director
1999 Love.Co.UK
Kudos Productions Channel 4 United Kingdom
Half hour documentary on the intersection between Love and Technology.
Director
1997 - 1998 The Truth About Art
ZCZ Films Channel 4 United Kingdom
Three one hour films tracing ancient art and its links to contemporary art presented by Waldemar Januszczak.
Series Director
1997 Lonely Planet Guide to Peru
Pilot Productions Channel 4 United Kingdom
Travelogue from the wildly different terrains and cities of Peru.
Director
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