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PeterBurger

Ngāi Tahu, Rangitāne
  • Director
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Peter Meteherangi Tikao Burger has directed a run of TV movies, including true story drama Until Proven Innocent, which won five Qantas Awards. Burger got his own awards for What Really Happened: Waitangi, a 2002 episode of Mataku, and co-directing docudrama Erebus: Operation Overdue. From an editing background, he won early success directing adverts, short Turangawaewae (which played at the Cannes Film Festival) and mockumentary Fish Skin Suit. Since then he has helmed TV movies Field Punishment No 1 and Resolve, and episodes of The Cult and The Dead Lands. He was profiled for a 2006 episode of Kete Aronui.

Screenography

The Gone
2023 Director Series
2020 Director Television
2020 - 2022 Director Series
Bean to Bar - Whittaker's Chocolate (Nigella Lawson)
2019 Director Commercial
The Dead Lands (TV series)
2019 Director Series

Awards

2025 New Zealand Screen Awards/Ngā Taonga Whakaata O Aotearoa
Screen Auckland Best Director - Drama Series: for The Gone Season 2

2018 Huawei Mate20 New Zealand Television Awards
Nominated for Best Director - Documentary/Factual: for Artefact

“A good day is a day when I have created something at work that makes me feel emotional in some way, and then at home, the family can make it through the evening without getting too emotional.”

Peter Burger in an interview with Te Karaka, July 2013