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Melanie Rodriga (nee Read)

Director, Editor

 Melanie Rodriga (nee Read)

 Melanie Rodriga (nee Read)
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Melanie Rodriga (nee Read)

Australian-raised Melanie Rodriga (nee Read) moved to New Zealand in 1977, and worked as an editor. After adapting Keri Hulme story Hooks and Feelers, she wrote and directed feminist thriller Trial Run in 1983. In 1988 Rodriga was a best director finalist for pioneering TV drama The Marching Girls. Rodriga now lectures in film at Perth’s Murdoch University and continues to make and develop films in NZ and Australia.

A lot of people would like to think [women’s films] can conveniently be put into one category, which is radical and inaccessible. But even ‘feminist’ films have a vast range.  
 
 

Screenography

Screenography
 Role/s
 Teesh and Trude

Teesh and Trude

Director
Producer

2002

 True Life Stories - The Pip Brown Story

True Life Stories - The Pip Brown Story

Writer
Director

1999

 Desperate Remedies

Desperate Remedies

Continuity

1993

 Standing in the Sunshine

Standing in the Sunshine

Director

1993

 Great New Zealand River Journeys

Great New Zealand River Journeys

Director
Editor

1991

 Ruby and Rata

Ruby and Rata

Continuity

1990

 Send a Gorilla

Send a Gorilla

Director
Writer

1988

 The Marching Girls - Mahara's Story

The Marching Girls - Mahara's Story

Director

1987

 The Minders

The Minders

Director
Editor

1984

 Trial Run

Trial Run

Writer
Director

1984

 Hooks and Feelers

Hooks and Feelers

Director
Writer

1983

 Profiles - Greer Twiss

Profiles - Greer Twiss

Editor

1983

 Profiles - Jeffrey Harris

Profiles - Jeffrey Harris

Editor

1983

 Profiles - Neil Dawson

Profiles - Neil Dawson

Editor

1983

 Profiles - Richard Killeen

Profiles - Richard Killeen

Editor

1983

 Robin's Return

Robin's Return

Editor

1982

 Surfacing

Surfacing

Director
Editor
Producer

1982

 Profiles

Profiles

Editor

1981 - 1983

 Profiles - Philip Clairmont

Profiles - Philip Clairmont

Editor

1981

 Profiles - Tony Fomison

Profiles - Tony Fomison

Editor

1981

 Them's the Breaks

Them's the Breaks

Director
Writer
Producer
Editor

1981

 Second Sight

Second Sight

Director
Writer
Producer
Sound
Editor

1980

 Seven Black Robins

Seven Black Robins

Editor

1980

 Witches and Faggots, Dykes and Poofters

Witches and Faggots, Dykes and Poofters

Editor

1979

 A Family of Ours

A Family of Ours

Editor

1978

 Against the Lights

Against the Lights

Editor
Production Manager

1978

 Wild South

Wild South

Editor

1978

 Curiosities

Curiosities

Writer
Director
Editor

1976


The titles listed here may not reflect this person's full screenography. These are only the titles that are included in or referenced by this site.

Awards

1988 Listener Film & Television Awards
Nominated for Best Director: for The Marching Girls