OwenHughes
- Producer
Welsh-born Owen Hughes segued directly from university to a job at Wellington production company Pacific Films. Since establishing his own company Frame Up Films in 1977, Hughes has produced 40 plus documentaries, and many dramas. En route, he has nurtured the talents of a number of emerging talents, including directors Niki Caro, Fiona Samuel and Jessica Hobbs.
Screenography
Biography
Owen Hughes was born in North Wales to a Welsh father and English mother. Shortly after he turned five, his family migrated to New Zealand.
Hughes was educated at Tauranga Boys’ College, followed by three years at Auckland and Victoria Universities. Halfway through his final year of a Bachelor of Arts in English, he left to work as a negative matcher (the job involves cutting the negative during editing) at John O’Shea’s Pacific Films in Wellington.
Awards
2019 Huawei Mate30 Pro New Zealand Television Awards
Best Factual Series: Uncharted with Sam Neill
1999 Nokia New Zealand Film Awards
Best Film: Memory and Desire
“For a screen-struck schoolboy in the 1960s, the prospects of a New Zealand film industry, let alone a professional career, was a mirage. To have enjoyed both has been both a delight and a wonder. As the crew T-shirt for Memory and Desire said, 'A dream true come' — a quote from the lead actor. ”