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AlisterBarry

  • Director
  • Writer
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Alister Barry has been making intelligent and provocative documentaries for more than three decades. Barry's films reflect his longtime interest in how power is exercised in a democracy, and how the decisions of the powerful impact on ordinary people's lives.

Screenography

2014 Producer, Co-Director, Writer Film
2011 Consultant Film
2008 Director, Producer, Camera, Writer Film
2006 Director, Writer, Producer Film

Biography

Alister Barry remains one of that rare breed of New Zealand documentary filmmakers: one whose work has regularly won showings on Kiwi cinema screens. Barry's documentaries reflect his interest in how decisions made by policy-makers and employers have affected ordinary New Zealanders' lives.

Awards

2014 Rialto Channel NZ Film Awards (The Moas)
Nominated for Best Documentary: Hot Air

2013 Bruce Jesson Journalism Awards
Senior Journalism Award

“Alister Barry is one of the under-sung heroes of the New Zealand film world.”

Graeme Tuckett, writing in The Dominion Post

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