Chris Dudman

Chris Dudman’s film-making career started in 1990 when ‘Blackwater Summer’, his graduation film at the Royal College of Art in London, was nominated for a Student Oscar and went on to win numerous international awards. He spent several years directing and editing arts documentaries for television in the UK before moving back to New Zealand. He has written and directed one off documentaries and documentary series for New Zealand television – ‘New Zealand at War’, ‘Zoo’, ‘Protecting the Border’ and the recent, critically acclaimed, ‘The Day That Changed My Life’ for TVNZ 1.

He has directed two highly awarded NZFC short films – ‘The Graffiti of Mr. Tupaia’ and ‘Choice Night’ – and he was also the lead director and co-writer of ‘Harry’, the gritty TV3 crime series starring Sam Neill and Oscar Kightley.

In recent years he directed two episodes of James Patterson’s true crime anthology series ‘Murder Is Forever’ which screened in the US on Discovery ID and wrote and directed the dramatic re-enactments for the multi-awarding TVNZ docu-drama, ‘By the Balls’.