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CononFraser

  • Producer
  • Director
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As writer and presenter of The World Around Us, and producer of Looking at New Zealand, Conon Fraser was an early television celebrity. He joined the National Film Unit in 1969 and continued to make films documenting his adopted country’s landscape and history, and New Zealanders’ way of life. Fraser died on 17 June 2014, aged 84.

Biography

New Zealand television viewers first encountered Conon Fraser as presenter of the weekly NZBC programme The World Around Us in June 1964. The 10-minute programme, which he also wrote, was aimed at school-age children and gave viewers a background to the news using films, maps and pictures. It screened on Mondays until December 1965.

Screenography

Circuits of Gold
1987 Associate Producer Television
Beyond the Roaring Forties
1986 Writer, Director Short film
Tarawera
1986 Writer, Director, Producer Short film
With Us All the Way
1982 Writer, Director Short film
The Double Standard
1982 Director, Writer Short film

Awards

1980 United States Industrial Film Festival
Silver Screen Award: Coal Valley

1980 Asian Film Festival (Indonesia)
Mitra Award of Honour: Coal Valley

1979 Festival of the Americas (United States)
Silver Award: Coal Valley

“My interest is in documentary filming, and I'm looking forward to the opportunity of perhaps working in a little more depth, on longer projects.”

— Conon Fraser on leaving Looking at New Zealand, NZ Listener, 6 December 1968