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Bruce Morrison

Director/Writer/Producer

Bruce Morrison's extensive career as director, producer and sometime scriptwriter has crossed the gamut: from innovative arts programming and pioneer music videos, to the long-running Heartland series — plus feature films variously involving fast cars, riotous teens and a glamour-struck Donogh Rees.

The basic rules for making a film about rose pruning are pretty much the same as for any subject! That’s how I got my training: gardening [films], current affairs and making some of NZ’s first rock clips. Bruce Morrison

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Interview

Bruce Morrison: Heartland, poetry and liquor bottles…

Interview, 2013

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50 Years of New Zealand Television: 6 - A Sense of Identity

2010, Subject - Television

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Lost in Translation 3 - The Waitangi Sheet (episode three)

2009, Co-Director - Television

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Lost in Translation 5 - The Bay of Plenty Sheets (episode five)

2009, Co-Director - Television

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Lost in Translation 2 - Te Tiriti o Waitangi (episode two)

2009, Co-Director - Television

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Lost in Translation 4 - The Manukau-Kāwhia Sheet (episode four)

2009, Co-Director - Television

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Lost in Translation 8 - The Waikato-Manukau and Printed Sheets (episode eight)

2009, Co-Director - Television

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Artsville

2005 - 2011, Director, Producer - Television

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Virginity

2001, Producer - Television

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Bastion Point - The Untold Story

1999, Director - Television

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The Irish Connection

1999, Director - Television

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The London Connection

1999, Director - Television

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Perfectly Frank - The Life of a New Zealand Writer

1998, Producer - Television

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The Bay Boys

1998, Director - Television

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The Road to Jerusalem

1997, Director, Writer, Research, Research - Television

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Heartland - Reefton

1996, Producer - Television

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Heartland - The Catlins

1996, Series Director - Television

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Heartland - Queen Street

1996, Series Director - Television

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Heartland - Alexandra

1995, Series Director - Television

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Heartland - Desert Road

1995, Series Director - Television

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Heartland - Devonport

1995, Series Editor - Television

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Heartland - Dunedin North

1995, Series Director - Television

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Heartland - High Country: Autumn Muster

1995, Series Director - Television

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Heartland - Ruatāhuna

1995, Director - Television

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The Roaring Forties Tour

1995, Director - Television

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Booze Culture

1994, Director - Television

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Heartland - Fendalton

1994, Director - Television

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Heartland - French Pass

1994, Director - Television

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Heartland - Glenorchy

1994, Director - Television

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Heartland - Haast

1994, Series Editor - Television

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Heartland - Riverton Races

1994, Series Director - Television

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Heartland - Far North

1994, Director - Television

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Heartland - Bluff

1994, Director - Television

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Heartland - East Coast

1994, Series Director - Television

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Heartland - Hokitika

1994, Series Director - Television

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Heartland - Lawrence

1994, Series Editor - Television

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Heartland - Ngāruawāhia

1994, Series Editor - Television

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Heartland - Pātea

1994, Director - Television

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Heartland - Waimarino

1994, Director - Television

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Heartland - Wainuiomata

1994, Series Director - Television

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Heartland - Waipū

1994, Series Director - Television

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Heartland - Gore

1993, Director - Television

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Heartland - Ōmarama

1993, Director - Television

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Heartland - Chatham Islands

1993, Director - Television

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Heartland - Collingwood Anzac Day

1993, Series Editor - Television

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Heartland - Grey Lynn

1993, Director - Television

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Heartland - Hokianga

1993, Director - Television

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Heartland - Maniototo (Living in the Maniototo)

1993, Director - Television

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Heartland - Port Chalmers

1993, Director - Television

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Great New Zealand River Journeys: The Clutha with Jon Gadsby

1992, Director - Television

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Gisborne Strikes Back

1992, Director - Television

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Great New Zealand River Journeys

1992, Director - Television

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Heartland

1991 - 1996, Producer, Director - Television

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Heartland - Stewart Island

1991, Director - Television

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The Grass is Greener - Sam Neill

1991, Director - Television

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McCormick Country - Series Two, Episode One

1989, Director - Television

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Holiday

1987 - 1997, Producer - Television

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Raglan by the Sea

1987, Writer, Director - Television

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Queen City Rocker

1986, Director - Film

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Shaker Run

1985, Director, Writer - Film

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Profiles - Richard Killeen

1983, Director - Television

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I'm in Heaven

1983, Director - Music video

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Profiles - Greer Twiss

1983, Director - Television

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Profiles - Jeffrey Harris

1983, Director - Television

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Profiles - Neil Dawson

1983, Director - Television

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Constance

1983, Director, Writer - Film

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Profiles - Philip Clairmont

1981, Director - Television

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Profiles - Tony Fomison

1981, Director - Television

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Profiles

1981 - 1983, Director - Television

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Radio with Pictures - My Kind of Town

1981, Production Team - Television

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The Sea Child

1980, Director, Writer, Producer - Short Film

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The Ray Woolf Show/The New Ray Woolf Show

1979 - 1981, Director - Television

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Red Deer

1977, Writer, Co-Director - Television

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Encounter - Meat

1976, Director - Television

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Kaleidoscope

1981 - 82, Director - Television

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Radio with Pictures

1979, Producer - Television

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Encounter

1975 - 1976, Director, Producer - Television

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Nationwide

1970 - 1972, Director - Television

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Review / Arts Review

1972 - 1975, Director, Producer - Television

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The South Tonight (Dunedin)

1972 - 1973, Producer - Television

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Landscape - Muttonbirders

1969, Director, Writer - Television

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Landscape

1968 - 1969, Director - Television