DaneGiraud
- Writer
- Director
Former guitarist Dane Giraud began his screen career by starring in and helping write 2001 movie The Waiting Place. Since then there hasn’t been much waiting around. Aside from directing feature drama Luella Miller, he has been a key player in a run of television shows and documentaries (Bring Your Boots, Oz, Both Worlds). Giraud is also creator of mockumentary series Find Me a Māori Bride.
Screenography
Biography
Born to a Kiwi mother and an Australian father, Dane Giraud’s family crossed the Tasman to New Zealand before he had begun walking.
A keen reader and writer — by age seven, he had already managed to finish reading Jaws, and at intermediate school, was reading his own serialised stories to his class — Giraud was also falling for movies. Especially those which avoided a conventional end. "I liked those films because you felt the filmmaker was making a direct challenge to the viewer", says Giraud. "I loved Hitchcock."
Awards
2001 Nokia New Zealand Film Awards
Best Digitally Mastered Feature: The Waiting Place
“… the internal process I went through as an actor is the same process I go through as a director and a writer. As a documentary director it is also the same. At the end of the day my job remains to find the intellectual and emotional opening in the story or subject, and wriggle inside that opening.”