AnnaMarbrook
- Director
Director Anna Marbrook came to the screen from an extensive theatre background (she co-founded Auckland company Theatre at Large). More than 150 episodes directing on Shortland Street laid the groundwork for a run of factual work, focused on Pacific themes: including award-winning documentaries Loimata, The Sweetest Tears and Te Mana o te Moana – The Pacific Voyagers, and reality show Waka Warriors.
Screenography
Biography
Across the mediums that she works in, Anna Marbrook values collaboration and power-sharing. She uses a sailing metaphor to describe the role of director: at the helm, yet expressing the voices of the group – "the collective voice that appears as a unique voice".
Awards
2021 New Zealand Television Awards
Best Documentary: Loimata - The Sweetest Tears
Nominated for Best Director - Documentary/Factual: for Loimata - The Sweetest Tears
“I made a very conscious choice to put Pacific voices up front and centre and position them as holding the wisdom and brilliance necessary to carry us all forward as humans.”