AmandaEvans
- Producer
- Director
The trio of documentaries surrounding the religious community of Gloriavale generated huge TV ratings. Amanda Evans is the director and producer behind this mini-TV phenomenon. In her 30 year career she has produced and/ or directed documentaries, reality series and iconic Kiwi kids and arts shows.
Screenography
Biography
Amanda Evans was introduced to storytelling around a busy dining table in in Manly, Brisbane. Money didn’t extend to ballet or music lessons; instead her parents, “keen narrators and raconteurs”, encouraged discussion around the (large) dinner table. Evans adored The Sound of Music, but soon realised she was more interested in telling other people’s stories than acting in them.
Awards
2017 New Zealand Television Awards
Nominated for Best Director - Documentary or Factual: for Gloriavale - Life and Death
2016 New York Festivals
Silver World Medal: Gloriavale - Life and Death
Silver World Medal: Glorivale - A World Apart
“Most viewers and critics are so used to getting the black hat/white hat applied to the characters, the setting up of clear antagonists and protagonists in every story, that they find it refreshing to see a different view of the world without an agenda.”