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New Zealand women film directors
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The list New Zealand women film directors includes
Jane Campion, Katie Wolfe, Nancy Brunning, Niki Caro and Christine Jeffs.
The list consists of 35 members.
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Lucy Lawless
New Zealand actress
Overview: Lucille Frances Lawless MNZM (née Ryan; born 29 March 1968) is a New Zealand actress and singer. Lawless is perhaps best known for her roles as the title character in the television series Xena: ...Date of birth: 29 March 1968Age: 57Nationality: New ZealanderOccupation: ActressGender: FemaleHeight: 5' 10" (178 cm)Partner: Rob Tapert (Married)
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Jane Campion
New Zealand film director, screenwriter and producer
Overview: Dame Elizabeth Jane Campion DNZM (born 30 April 1954) is a New Zealand filmmaker. She is best known for writing and directing the critically acclaimed films The Piano (1993) and The Power of the Dog (2021) ...Date of birth: 30 April 1954Age: 71Nationality: New ZealanderOccupation: Film DirectorGender: FemaleHeight: 5' 3" (160 cm) 0
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Nancy Brunning
New Zealand actor and director
Overview: Nancy Brunning (1971 – 16 November 2019) was a New Zealand actress, director, and writer who won awards in film and television and made a major contribution to the growth of Māori in the arts. Brunning ...Date of birth: 1971Date of death: 16 November 2019Age: 48 (age at death)Nationality: New ZealanderOccupation: ActressGender: Female 0
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Rachel House
New Zealand actress and director
Overview: Rachel Jessica Te Ao Maarama House ONZM (born 20 October 1971) is a New Zealand actress, acting coach, and director.Date of birth: 20 October 1971Age: 53Nationality: New ZealanderOccupation: ActressGender: FemaleHeight: 5' 7" (170 cm) 0
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Katie Wolfe
New Zealand actress and director
Overview: Katie Wolfe (born 1968) is an actress and director from New Zealand. 0
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Niki Caro
New Zealand filmmaker (born 1966)
Overview: Nikola Jean Caro MNZM (born September 20, 1966) is a New Zealand film director and screenwriter. Her 2002 film Whale Rider was critically praised and won a number of awards at international film festivals ...Date of birth: 20 September 1967Age: 57Nationality: New ZealanderOccupation: Film DirectorGender: Female 0
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Christine Jeffs
New Zealand film director
Overview: Christine Jeffs (born 29 January 1963) is a New Zealand-born director, editor, and screenwriter known for directing the New Zealand film Rain (2001), the British motion picture Sylvia (2003), and the ...Date of birth: 29 January 1963Age: 62Nationality: New ZealanderOccupation: DirectorGender: Female 0
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Alison Maclean
Canadian film director
Overview: Alison Maclean (born July 31, 1958) is a Canadian film director of music videos, short films, television (episodes of Sex and the City, The Tudors, Homicide: Life on the Street), commercials and feature ... 0
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Ramai Hayward
New Zealand actor and filmmaker
Overview: Patricia Rongomaitara "Ramai" Hayward MNZM (née Te Miha, 11 November 1916 – 3 July 2014) was a New Zealand photographer, actor, and filmmaker who made films in five countries. Her film career began in ...Date of birth: 11 November 1916Date of death: 3 July 2014Age: 97 (age at death)Occupation: Actress 0
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Merata Mita
New Zealand actor and filmmakerOverview: Merata Mita CNZM (19 June 1942 – 31 May 2010) was a notable filmmaker in New Zealand as well as a key figure in the growth of the Māori screen industry. She was from the Māori iwi of Ngāti Pikiao and Ngāi ...Date of birth: 19 June 1942Date of death: 31 May 2010Age: 67 (age at death)Nationality: New ZealanderOccupation: Film DirectorGender: Female 0
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Briar Grace-Smith
New Zealand Māori scriptwriter
Overview: Briar Grace-Smith ONZM is a writer of scripts, screenplays and short stories from New Zealand. She has worked as an actor and writer with the Maori theatre cooperative Te Ohu Whakaari and Maori theatre ...Nationality: New ZealanderOccupation: WriterGender: Female 0
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Jess Johnson
New Zealander, Film Director
Overview: Jess Johnson (born 1979) is a New York-based New Zealand contemporary artist who works in drawing, installation, animation, and virtual reality. Her drawings depict alternative realms while her collab ... 0
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Jazz Thornton
Mental health activist from New ZealandOverview: Jazz Thornton is a New Zealand mental health activist, author, speaker, TikToker and filmmaker. Thornton co-founded suicide prevention organisation, Voices of Hope, with eating disorder activist Genevieve ... 0
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Pietra Brettkelly
New Zealand filmmakerOverview: Pietra Brettkelly (born 1965) is a New Zealand filmmaker, known for her documentaries. She is a three-time Oscar-nominated elected documentary filmmaker, a member of The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts ... 0
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Sima Urale
New Zealand film directorOverview: Sima Urale is a New Zealand filmmaker who has won national and international awards. Her films explore social and political issues and have been screened worldwide. She is one of the few Polynesian film ...Nationality: New ZealanderOccupation: Film Director 0
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Leanne Pooley
New Zealand-Canadian filmmaker
Overview: Leanne Pooley ONZM is a Canadian filmmaker based in Auckland, New Zealand. Pooley was born and raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, she immigrated to New Zealand in the mid-1980s and began working in ...Nationality: CanadianOccupation: Film Director 0
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Tweedie Waititi
New Zealand directorOverview: Tweedie Waititi is a New Zealand film director and producer. The whāngai sister of Taika Waititi, she is best known for her work co-directing production company Matewa Media, which since 2016 has produced ... 0
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Armağan Ballantyne
New Zealand director
Overview: Armağan Ballantyne (born 7 August 1972) is a New Zealand film director. She is best known for her feature films The Strength of Water (2009) and Nude Tuesday (2022).Date of birth: 7 August 1972Age: 52 0
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April Phillips
Writer, producer, singer living in New Zealand
Overview: April Phillips is an actress, writer, singer, director and producer of film and theatre. She was born in Coventry, England, but resides in Wellington, New Zealand. Her production company, Godiva Pro ...Occupation: SingerGender: Female 0
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20.Overview: Helen Jean Brew MBE (née Butler; 22 November 1922 – 12 January 2013) was a New Zealand actor, birth campaigner, documentary filmmaker, educator and speech therapist for children. She developed a belief ...Date of birth: 22 November 1922Date of death: 12 January 2013Age: 90 (age at death)Occupation: Educator 0
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