Paul Maunder

An iconoclast with a bent for experimentation, director Paul Maunder brought the mixed flavours of social realism and the arthouse to New Zealand screens in the 1960s and 70s. Then he shifted stages and left the government's National Film Unit to concentrate on theatre. His second feature Sons for the Return Home (1979) was the first film to dramatise the experience of Pacific Islanders living in contemporary New Zealand.

Nothing Paul ever did at the Film Unit was how the Film Unit had ever done it before. Fellow National Film Unit director Hugh Macdonald