BryanBruce
- Director
- Presenter
Since the late 1980s Bryan Bruce has been a prolific documentary maker and presenter. Over more than 30 documentaries, plus three seasons of The Investigator, he has cast fresh eyes on some of the most famous crimes in New Zealand’s history, and asked tough questions about the country’s economic and social trajectory.
Biography
The timing of Bryan Bruce’s award-winning documentary New Zealand: Inside Child Poverty caused a furore. Screening on TV3 just days before the 2011 general election, it was quoted at length by opposition parties, and one of its central evaluations — that 150 New Zealand children who had died in the previous year would had lived if they’d been born in Sweden, Japan or the Czech Republic — won headlines, and even a complaint to the Electoral Commission (which was rejected — they argued the film "provided a prime example of democracy at work"). Bruce is a documentary maker who isn’t afraid of sticking his head above the parapet.
Screenography
Awards
2015 New York Festivals Television Awards
Silver Medal: Passion in Paradise
2014 New York Festivals Television Awards
Gold Medal: Mind The Gap
“...I think we can make analytical, thought-provoking programmes that encourage us to discuss the kind of society, the kind of place that we have here and whether this is New Zealand the way we want it.”