ShirleyHorrocks
- Director
- Producer
Shirley Horrocks, ONZM, is one of New Zealand’s leading directors of documentaries about the arts. Her work has chronicled the work and lives of artist Len Lye, photographer Marti Friedlander, writer Albert Wendt and playwright Roger Hall. Her films have won awards, and screened at festivals from France and Italy to the United States.
Screenography
Biography
Shirley Horrocks is one of Aotearoa's most prolific documentary filmmakers. Looking back in 2018, she said “for the first time I feel more comfortable saying that I’ve had a career as a documentary maker … it’s amazing how they mount up.”
Awards
2019 Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit (ONZM)
For services to documentary filmmaking
2010 Documentary Edge Film Festival (New Zealand)
Best New Zealand Short Documentary: Dance of the Instant: The New Dance Group Wellington 1945 - 1947
Best Educational Documentary: Dance of the Instant
Best Research: Dance of the Instant
“Often the people I've made documentaries about are out there, but perhaps they're not widely known. I wanted to get them more widely known because I think they really should be.”