AmandaMillar
- Reporter
- Director
Amanda Millar is one of New Zealand's most experienced and awarded television journalists. Millar has reported on many high profile 60 Minutes and 20/20 stories, including stories on former police Assistant Commissioner Clint Rickards, 'Parnell Panther' Mark Stephens, and disgraced Christchurch GP Morgan Fahey. In 2018 she directed her debut feature Celia, about social justice advocate Celia Lashlie.
Biography
Amanda Millar has over 30 years of journalism experience, much of it involving current affairs programmes. En route she has won almost 20 awards, including Qantas Media Awards for Best Current Affairs Reporter in 2000 and 2005, and Best Interviewer for seven years out of eight.
Screenography
Awards
2011 Aotearoa Film and Television Awards
Best Current Affairs Reporting for a weekly programme/one-off current affairs special (shared with Joanne Mitchell): for Sunday, Innocent story
2005 Qantas Media Awards
Best Current Affairs Reporter - Television Section
“I’m the P dealer in television; perverts, politicians, paedophiles, prostitutes, pathologically disturbed people, property developers, (usually crooked) and to add to my list, I’ve now got Plunket!”