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ChristinaMilligan

Ngāti Porou
  • Producer
  • Writer
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Christina Milligan has been both an actor and scriptwriter, but she loves producing the most. Milligan began producing at TVNZ, and after doing classic movie The End of the Golden Weather, spent eight years in Australia as a writer and script editor. These days she lectures at AUT, and runs Conbrio Media with partner Roger Grant. Her producing CV includes documentaries Let My Whakapapa Speak and The Price of Peace.

Screenography

2024 Executive Producer Film
2022 Executive Producer Film
2018 Co-Producer Film
2015 Producer Film
2013 Executive Producer Film

Biography

As a teenager in Gisborne, Christina Milligan would rather have been another place entirely, like acting her heart out onstage. And that's exactly what happened; she won a scholarship to Norway, to spend a year at an Oslo high school for the performing arts.

Awards

2011 National Geographic All Roads Festival (Indigenous Festival - United States)
Best Narrative Film: Nights in the Garden of Spain

2008 Qantas Film and Television Awards (New Zealand)
Nominated for Best Māori Language Programme: Let My Whakapapa Speak

“I tend to see the good side in everything I’m doing, even when I’m tearing my hair out. It’s a useful quality for a producer.”

Christina Milligan