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RayWaru

Ngāpuhi
  • Director
  • Producer
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Ray Waru has been a prolific television producer and director since the 1970s, specialising in Māori, heritage and historical programming. He established the first Māori production unit and has been involved in a range of ground-breaking, award-winning shows, while operating his own media company for over 20 years. In 2006 Waru was made a Member of the NZ Order of Merit for services to broadcasting.

Screenography

The Town New Zealand Saved
2007 Producer, Director Television
Frontier of Dreams
2003 - 2004 Producer, Director Series
A Hell of a Ride
2001 Director, Producer Television
Our People Our Century - Being Kiwi
2000 Producer Television

Biography

Ray Waru joined Television New Zealand in 1977 and spent a decade involved in programme-making, ranging from longstayers Country Calendar and Fair Go to religious show People Like Us and Tomorrow's World, a co-production with the BBC.

Awards

2006 Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit (MNZM)
For services to broadcasting

2006 Houston International Film Festival
Silver Award: Frontier of Dreams, for episode ten

“He’s taken the essays by the directors and the historians and made them work on-screen.”

— Vincent Burke praises Frontier of Dreams fellow producer Ray Waru - Onfilm, September 2005