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JanineMorrell-Gunn

Ngāti Kahungunu
  • Producer
  • Director
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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 ForwardMorrell-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

2021 Executive Producer Television
2018 Creator, Executive Producer Television
Darwin and Newts
2018 - 2021 Director, Executive Producer Series
2015 Executive Producer Television
2Kaha
2015 - 2016 Executive Producer Series

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.”

Janine Morrell-Gunn on building a $7 million television studio in Christchurch with husband Jason Gunn, The Press, 22 May 2009

Related images

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Jason Gunn and his wife Janine Morrell-Gunn on the red carpet at the 2009 Qantas Film and Television Awards.
Photo supplied by Throng.