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CharlottePurdy

  • Director
  • Producer
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Charlotte Purdy’s CV ranges from reality TV to Antarctic disaster. After a television OE in the United Kingdom, she helmed documentaries and factual TV back home. Under her Rogue Productions banner she created reality format The Big Experiment, and made Reel Late with Kate. After a decade producing current affairs, she co-directed docudrama Erebus: Operation Overdue and rugby doco By the Balls.

Screenography

2019 Co-Director, Producer, Executive Producer Television
Zombody Save Me!
2019 Executive Producer Television
Young Mums
2019 Executive Producer Television
Nuclear Dissent
2019 Producer Web
Mama Anika
2019 Executive Producer Series

Biography

Charlotte Purdy argues that the most important skill she brings to her screen work is storytelling. "Every project on television needs a different style of storytelling, going from magazine or reality styles to current affairs, journalism and documentaries. You have to continually come up with new story ideas, which is really hard work.”

Awards

2020 New Zealand Television Awards
Best Documentary: By the Balls

“This important and absorbing watch helps us comprehend — and says a long-overdue thank you.”

Sarah Lang reviewing Erebus: Operation Overdue in The Herald on Sunday, 13 July 2014