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DanSalmon

  • Director
  • Producer
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Dan Salmon is a multi award-winning director and producer of documentary (Made in Taiwan, Here to Stay) and drama (Licked, The Day Morris Left). His documentaries have screened on TVNZ, ABC, Al Jazeera and EBS in Korea, and at festivals in Tahiti, Canada and the United States.

Biography

Dan Salmon has directed and produced projects across the gamut: documentary, docudrama, short film and commercials. Salmon first got serious about filmmaking while studying at Auckland University. Two pieces he directed in 1995 while completing a Diploma of Broadcast Communications — one on artist Michael Parekowhai — were broadcast by TVNZ. "So I came out of the course claiming I was a director, and a few people believed me."

Screenography

The Eruption: Stories of Survival
2020 Additional Filming Television
Origins
2020 — 2023 Director Television
Underarm: The Ball that Changed Cricket
2019 Co-Director Television
Griff's Great Kiwi Road Trip
2019 Director Series
Purina Pound Pups to Dog Stars
2014 — 2015 Field Director Series

Awards

2025 New Zealand Screen Awards/Ngā Taonga Whakaata O Aotearoa
Best Sports Programme: for Grit & Glory (shared with Peter Brook Bell and Robyn Scott-Vincent)

2012 Sorta Unofficial New Zealand Film Awards
Nominated for Best Documentary: for Pictures of Susan
Nominated for Best Director - Documentary Film: for Pictures of Susan

“The doing. Making stuff. Telling stories.”

— Dan Salmon in a February 2011 Big Idea interview, on what he most enjoys about his job