DebCope
- Producer
Producer Deb Cope has worked in New Zealand television for over two decades. After cutting her teeth at the BBC, then as a production manager back home in Auckland, Cope moved into line producing in the 2010s — including on miniseries Hillary, and TV movies The Kick and Why Does Love?. She has produced on well-known series Jonah, Under the Vines, and Mystic. In 2015 Cope launched her company Fearless Productions with producer Carmen J Leonard. Their first project, award-winning TV movie Runaway Millionaires, told the true story of a Rotorua couple who fled Aotearoa after mistakenly being transferred $10 million.
Screenography
Awards
2020 New Zealand Television Awards
Best Feature Drama (shared with Carmen J Leonard and Danny Mulheron): Runaway Millionaires
Te Māngai Paho Best Māori Programme (shared with Annabelle Lee-Mather, Mihingarangi Forbes, Philip Smith and Mihingarangi Forbes): NZ Wars - Stories of Waitara
Best Drama Series (shared with Philip Smith and Carmen J Leonard): One Lane Bridge
“It was such a big news story at the time that I couldn't quite believe it hadn't been told before. Once we got into the scripting process we uncovered so much more than we thought we knew... ”