ToaFraser
- Director
- Writer
In 2006 playwright Toa Fraser turned No. 2, his award-winning play about a mixed-race Fijian family, into an acclaimed movie. His second feature Dean Spanley took away seven awards at the 2009 Qantas Film Awards, including Best Director. Fraser went on to direct ballet documentary Giselle, te reo action film The Dead Lands, and London hostage drama 6 Days, before helming a run of international TV projects.
Screenography
Biography
Toa Fraser revels in being difficult to pigeonhole. His ancestry encompasses Fiji, England and Aotearoa. His work as a director features Fijian-Kiwi families, Māori warriors, strange Brits and American superheroes. He has worked behind the camera in Mount Roskill, Dublin, New York, Vancouver, London and France.
Awards
2022 Children's and Family Emmy Awards (United States)
Nominated for Outstanding Directing for a Single Camera Programme (with Robyn Grace, Jim Mickle and Alexis Ostrander: for Sweet Tooth, season one
2014 Rialto Channel NZ Film Awards (The Moas)
Nominated for Best Film: The Dead Lands
Nominated for Best Director: for The Dead Lands
“My inspirations are from people and the street. It’s not from sitting in a room and formulating things from the back of my head. ”
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