JanineMorrell-Gunn
- Producer
- Director
Janine Morrell-Gunn is one of New Zealand's leading children's television producers. She began her TV career in 1985 as a trainee director and producer at TVNZ, working on programmes such as Spot On and Fast Forward. Morrell-Gunn spent seven years as executive producer of TVNZ's Children's Unit. In the late 1990s she formed Whitebait Productions (now Whitebait Media) with her husband Jason Gunn.
Screenography
Biography
When one door closes, another door opens. That saying never rang more true than for television producer Janine Morrell-Gunn. In 1998 she was the executive producer of TVNZ's Children's Unit in Christchurch. But when the unit relocated that year to Avalon Studios in Wellington, she was determined to keep her family in Christchurch and start up her own business.
Awards
2022 New Zealand Television Awards
Television Legend Award
2020 New Zealand Television Awards
Nominated for Best Children's Programme (with Reuben Davidson): Science on Ice
“We're not Kerry Packer or Murdoch or Sky, we're not TVNZ, we're just Jason and Janine.”
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