Melanie Rodriga (née Read)
Australian-raised Melanie Rodriga (née Read) moved to New Zealand in 1977, and worked as an editor. After adapting Keri Hulme story Hooks and Feelers, she wrote and directed feminist thriller Trial Run in 1983. In 1988 Rodriga was a best director finalist for pioneering TV drama The Marching Girls. Rodriga now lectures in film at Perth’s Murdoch University and continues to make and develop films.
A lot of people would like to think [women’s films] can conveniently be put into one category, which is radical and inaccessible. But even ‘feminist’ films have a vast range. Melanie Rodriga, in a 1985 interview with Roger Horrocks
The Bar
1997, Writer - Short Film
Once a Convent Girl
1995, Director - Television
Peach
1995, Continuity - Short Film
The People Next Door
1994, Director, Writer - Television
Standing in the Sunshine - Work
1993, Director - Television
Desperate Remedies
1993, Continuity - Film
Great New Zealand River Journeys
1992, Director, Editor - Television
Great New Zealand River Journeys: The Waikato River with Lynda Topp
1992, Director, Editor - Television
Ruby and Rata
1990, Continuity - Film
Send a Gorilla
1988, Director, Writer - Film
The Marching Girls - Mahara's Story
1987, Director - Television
Trial Run
1984, Director, Writer, Original Idea - Film
Profiles - Richard Killeen
1983, Editor - Television
Profiles - Jeffrey Harris
1983, Editor - Television
Profiles - Neil Dawson
1983, Editor - Television
Hooks and Feelers
1983, Director, Writer - Short Film
The Robin's Return
1982, Editor - Television
Contact - They Shoot Commercials, don't they?
1982, Editor - Television
Profiles - Philip Clairmont
1981, Editor - Television
Profiles - Tony Fomison
1981, Editor - Television
Profiles
1981 - 1983, Editor - Television
Wild South
1981 - 1997, Editor - Television
Island of Strange Noises
1981, Editor - Television
Seven Black Robins
1981, Editor - Television
Against the Lights
1978, Editor, Production Manager - Television