Rachale Davies

Rachale Davies was 16 when she began her TV career, as a reporter on teen show InFocus. She moved behind the camera while in England in the early 2000s, producing and shooting stories for iconic children's show Blue Peter and BBC reality show Diet Trials. On returning to New Zealand in 2006, Davies directed on The Apprentice New Zealand and the first season of New Zealand's Next Top Model. During seven years in Australia, she produced The Farmer Wants a Wife, and was a casting producer for Big Brother. Davies went on to work as a series producer at Attitude Pictures, and launched her company Boxed Media.

In this business, you have to be tenacious, driven and most of all passionate. It gets under your skin, it's like a drug — we know we need a break and yet like a moth to a flame we always go back for another hit. Rachale Davies, on working in the screen industry