JaneAndrews
- Producer/ director
Jane Andrews launched production company Jam TV with Melanie Rakena in 2002. The partnership resulted in a run of award-winning shows which brought fresh energy to local factual programming. Off the Rails, South and long-running travel show Intrepid Journeys won high ratings and critical acclaim. Radar's Patch and Global Radar both won local awards. In 2015 Andrews debuted hit series DNA Detectives.
Screenography
Biography
Some years back, Jane Andrews listed her career highlights to date: reaching the summit of a mountain in Nepal; maintaining phone contact with a hostage-taker, while police engineered a rescue attempt; paddling a boat down the Ganges; mounting a successful campaign to free a war veteran from facing his 80th birthday behind bars; being kissed by celebrity chef Jamie Oliver; playing Johnny Cash's guitar.
Awards
2012 New Zealand Television Awards
Best Information Series: Global Radar
Nominated for Best Factual Series: Intrepid Journeys
2011 Aotearoa Film and Television Awards
Nominated for Best Information Programme: North, episode 6
Nominated for Best Observational Reality Series: Intrepid Journeys
“When we began making Intrepid Journeys we called it reality TV because we captured real things happening in the real world in real time. We started everyday with no interviews booked or even a run sheet of what we would aim to film. Where some saw a day that lacked a plan, we saw a day filled with potential.”
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