PamelaMeekings-Stewart
- Producer
- Director
Though Pamela Meekings-Stewart's work as a producer and director ranges widely, she has often been drawn to documentaries involving women and the arts. Her Feltex award-winning series Pioneer Women dramatised the lives of six women, from Princess Te Puea to Ettie Rout. These days she runs retreats from her farm in Pukerua Bay. Meekings-Stewart is sometimes credited as Pamela Jones.
Screenography
Biography
You could say broadcasting is in Pamela Meekings-Stewart‘s blood; she is daughter of Sir Lance Cross, who was Head of Sport for the NZ Broadcasting Council from 1952 to 1978, and a member of the International Olympic Committee.
Awards
1988 Pater Awards (Australasian Academy of Broadcast Arts and Sciences)
International Bicentennial Award: Legacy
1984 Feltex Television Awards
Best Drama: Pioneer Women
“Of all the years I worked in, with, for and on television, there was never a day I didn’t want to go to work!”