SimonMarler
- Director
- Producer
Simon Marler's film industry experience includes stints as a casting director, as a director of shorts and documentaries, and three years as head of New Zealand film organisation Script to Screen.
Biography
Simon Marler has cast films, taught film, and directed a number of them as well.
One of his first paid films jobs was in 1982, when he worked as a runner on period epic Savage Islands. He was a clapper loader on horror romp Death Warmed Up and German helicopter series Skycrane, then worked behind the scenes on other features and TV programmes.
Screenography
Awards
2008 Wairoa Māori and Indigenous Film Festival
Best of the Festival: Restoring the Mauri of Lake Omapere
2001 East Switzerland Work Show
Best Film: Mrs W Grant
1999 Saint Petersburg Short Film and Documentary Festival (Russia)
Jury Diploma: for Point Your Toes, Cushla!
“...a powerful, sobering feature documentary on the utter degradation of one of the jewels of [the whole of] Ngā Puhi...”