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Melanie Rodriga (née Read)

Director, Editor

Australian-raised Melanie Rodriga (née 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.

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. Melanie Rodriga, in a 1985 interview with Roger Horrocks

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The Topp Twins - Do Not Adjust Your Twin-Set: Speedway

1998, Production Manager - Television

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The Topp Twins - Do Not Adjust Your Twin-Set: Pasifika

1998, Production Manager - Television

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The Bar

1997, Writer - Short Film

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Once a Convent Girl

1995, Director - Television

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Peach

1995, Continuity - Short Film

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The People Next Door

1994, Director, Writer - Television

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Standing in the Sunshine - Work

1993, Director - Television

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Desperate Remedies

1993, Continuity - Film

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Standing in the Sunshine - Sex & Family

1993, Co-Director - Television

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Great New Zealand River Journeys

1992, Director, Editor - Television

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Great New Zealand River Journeys: The Waikato River with Lynda Topp

1992, Director, Editor - Television

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Ruby and Rata

1990, Continuity - Film

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Send a Gorilla

1988, Director, Writer - Film

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The Marching Girls - Mahara's Story

1987, Director - Television

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Trial Run

1984, Director, Writer, Original Idea - Film

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Profiles - Richard Killeen

1983, Editor - Television

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Profiles - Jeffrey Harris

1983, Editor - Television

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Profiles - Neil Dawson

1983, Editor - Television

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Hooks and Feelers

1983, Director, Writer - Short Film

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The Robin's Return

1982, Editor - Television

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Contact - They Shoot Commercials, don't they?

1982, Editor - Television

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Profiles - Philip Clairmont

1981, Editor - Television

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Profiles - Tony Fomison

1981, Editor - Television

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Profiles

1981 - 1983, Editor - Television

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Wild South

1981 - 1997, Editor - Television

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Island of Strange Noises

1981, Editor - Television

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Seven Black Robins

1981, Editor - Television

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Against the Lights

1978, Editor, Production Manager - Television