TomHern
- Producer
- Actor
Tom Hern was a teen reporter on What Now?, before acting in TV hit The Tribe (as villainous leader Ram), Revelations - The Initial Journey (in the starring role as Jess) and Shortland Street (as the deeply religious Baxter Cormack). In 2008 he began a move into producing. Since then, he has worked on award-winners The Dark Horse and Everything We Loved, and a 2017 remake of Goodbye Pork Pie — as well as co-producing action flicks Guns Akimbo and Shadow in the Cloud. In 2021, Hern created The Panthers with Nua Finau. The miniseries dramatises the story of Will 'Ilolahia, who co-founded activist group the Polynesian Panthers.
Screenography
Awards
2022 New Zealand Television Awards
Nominated for Screen Auckland Best Director - Drama/Comedy Drama (shared with Vea Malfile'o): for The Panthers, Episode 3
2015 International Festival of Cinema from the Antipodes (France)
Grand Prix (Grand Prize): The Dark Horse
“These are always the kinds of real characters that I'm really interested in; these kinds of underdog heroes, but with contradictions to them.”