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HowardTaylor

  • Producer
  • Director
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Howard Taylor is a Wellington based writer, director and producer. After training as a film editor with the NZ Broadcasting Corporation in the early 1970s, he produced Country Calendar, and was a field director on arts and magazine series Kaleidoscope, 10AM and Sunday. He went freelance in 1995, working as a director and documentary maker for production houses including Ninox Films, Greenstone Pictures, and his own company Howard Taylor Productions.

Screenography

Country Calendar - 50 Golden Years
2016 Director Television
2009 Co-Producer Film
2008 Director, Producer, Writer Television
2007 Director, Writer, Producer, Editor, Camera Operator Television
2004 - 2011 Director Series

Awards

1983 Feltex Television Awards
Best Information Programme: Country Calendar

“I usually run a mile from docos containing too many historical "dramatisations" ... But writer/director Howard Taylor's investigation of the mythical, historical, ecological and spiritual aspects of the Whanganui River is deeply moving ... You're left entertained, enlightened and politicised. ”

Critic Grant Smithies reviewing Te Whiringa Taura o Whanganui