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JohnHarding

  • Production designer
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The work of award-winning production designer John Harding ranges from Kiwi short films to international blockbusters. A trained art teacher, Harding spent five years at Weta Workshop on The Lord of the Rings trilogy, and in 2009 was nominated for two awards for true crime thriller Until Proven Innocent. He worked alongside director Gaylene Preston on WWll era 'film memoir' Home By Christmas and Christchurch quake drama Hope and Wire, and was part of the costume design team on the first Avatar movie. Harding won the Best Production Design award for misfit comedy Predicament, at the 2011 Aotearoa Film and TV Awards. 

Screenography

2025 Production Designer Film
2023 Production Designer Film
Filthy Rich - Series One
2016 - 2017 Production Designer Television
2015 Production Designer, Art Director Film
2014 Production Designer Television

Awards

2011 Aotearoa Film and Television Awards
Best Production Design - Feature Film: for Predicament

2009 Aotearoa Film and Television Awards
Nominated for Best Production Design - Television: for Until Proven Innocent

“New Zealand punches above its weight in the film industry, with a 'can do' attitude.”

John Harding, while talking to students at St Peter's School, St Peter's School website, 28 March 2019