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PollyFryer

  • Producer
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British-born Polly Fryer began her screen career in London, at Ridley Scott's commercials company RSA Films. After various production gigs, she moved downunder in 2006. By 2008 she was Head of Production at Auckland company Desert Road. In-between managing Desert Road's development slate, Fryer produced Emmy-nominated docudrama The Golden Hour, and worked on series How to Look at a Painting. Going solo in 2013, she went on to produce award-winning quake documentary The Day that Changed My Life and David Farrier's Netflix show Dark Tourist. In 2019 she joined Netflix as one of the company's non-fiction executives. 

Screenography

Badjelly
2025 Reporter Series
2024 Producer Film
Dark Tourist
2018 Producer Series
Goodness Grows Here
2017 Executive Producer Short film
Modern Dinosaurs
2017 Producer Series

Awards

2015 Documentary Edge Festival (New Zealand)
Best New Zealand Feature: The Day that Changed My Life

2013 International Emmy Awards
Nominated for Best Documentary (with Justin Pemberton and Steven O'Meagher): The Golden Hour

“I love telling stories that take people to places they haven't been before.”

Polly Fryer