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ChrisBailey

  • Director
  • Producer
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Chris Bailey has made key creative contributions to a host of significant Kiwi television dramas, from sci fi classic Under the Mountain to Nothing Trivial. In 1998, Bailey, along with producer Chris Hampson and writer Greg McGee, founded production company ScreenWorks. He went on to become managing director of South Pacific Pictures.

Screenography

2023 Consultant Producer Television
2023 Consultant Producer Series
2019 Executive Producer Television
2019 Executive Producer Web
2019 Executive Producer Television

Biography

With more than four decades in the screen industry, Chris Bailey is one of New Zealand television's most prolific directors and producers. His directing credits cross many genres, including police and law shows (Mortimer's PatchStreet Legal) historical dramas (Greenstone), docudramas (Fallout) black comedies (Burying Brian) and a host of series aimed at children and young people.

Awards

2019 Huawei Mate30 Pro New Zealand Television Awards
Best Drama Series (shared with Mark Beesley, James Griffin and Kelly Martin): for Westside, series four
Best Feature Drama (shared with Michael Bennett, Jane Holland, Chloe Smith and Kelly Martin): for In Dark Places

“The world’s most practical man.”

Screenworks’ co-founder Chris Hampson on Bailey

Related images

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Producer Chris Bailey, actor Martin Henderson (Zane), Writer Margaret Mahy and actor Amber McWilliams (Emma) on the set of 1989 TV series Strangers.
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Producer Chris Bailey with Martin Henderson on the set of Strangers.
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Producer Chris Bailey, actor Martin Henderson (Zane), Writer Margaret Mahy and actor Amber McWilliams (Emma) on the set of 1989 TV series Strangers.
© TVNZ