LIPPY PICTURES

Screen Awards
Winner* 2021 Asian Academy Creative Awards, Best Original Screenplay, (The Gulf 2)

Finalist*, 2021 NZTV Awards, Best Drama Series, (The Gulf 2)

Winner* 2017 NZTV Awards, Best Feature Drama, (Jean)

Winner* 2017 NZTV Awards, Best Script, Drama, (Jean)

Winner* 2017 NY Festivals, Gold World Medal, Best Drama Special (Jean)

Winner* 2017 NY Festivals, Gold World Medal, Best TV Movie (Jean)

Winner* 2017 NY Festivals, Silver World Medal, Best Screenplay (Jean)

Winner* 2015 New York Festivals, Gold World Medal, Drama Special (Field Punishment No.1)

Finalist* 2014 Rialto Channel Film Awards, Best Television Drama (Field Punishment No.1)

Finalist* 2014 Rialto Channel Film Awards, Best Television Drama (Pirates of the Airwaves)

Winner* 2011 TV Guide Best on the Box-Best One-Off Drama (Tangiwai - a Love Story)
Finalist* 2011 NZWG Awards - Best Drama Script (Tangiwai - a Love Story)
Winner* 2010 NZWG Awards - Best Drama Script (Bloodlines)
Winner* 2009 Qantas Film and Television Awards-Best Drama(Until Proven Innocent)
Finalist* 2009 Atom Awards - Best Children's Television Production (Time Trackers)
Nominated* 2009 AFI Best Children’s Televsion Drama (Time Trackers)
Finalist 2006 NZ Screen Awards, Best Drama Script (The Insiders Guide to Love)
Finalist 2006 Qantas Television Awards, Best Script (The Insiders Guide to Love)
Finalist 2005 NZ Screen Awards, Best Drama Script (The Insiders Guide to Happiness)
Winner** 2003 AFTA Best Drama Script (The Strip)

 

* with Donna Malane

** with Kathryn Burnett

Book Awards
Finalist, U.S.A. Lambda Award 2000 (Dare Truth or Promise)
Winner, NZ Post Children's Book of the Year 1998 (Dare Truth or Promise)
Finalist, AIM Children's Book Awards 1996 (Home Run)
Winner, NZ Library Association Esther Glen Medal, 1994 (Sasscat to Win)
Finalist, NZ Library Association Esther Glen Medal, 1992 (Out Walked Mel)
Winner, Best First Book, AIM Children's Book Awards 1992 (Out Walked Mel)

Film

Queer Selfies (2014), short, Producer (dir. Robyn Paterson)

Run Rabbit (2018), short, Producer (dir. Robyn Paterson)

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Television broadcast
The Gulf Series 2 (2021)

8 x 1hr crime drama 

Lippy Pictures/Screentime/TV3/RealFilm/ZDF

Co-writer, producer, exec. producer with Donna Malane

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The Gulf Series 1(2019)

6 x 1hr crime drama 

Lippy Pictures/Screentime/TV3/Letterbox/ZDF

Co-writer, producer, exec. producer with Donna Malane

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Field Punishment No.1 (2014)

Telefeature drama

Lippy Pictures/TVNZ

Co-writer and producer with Donna Malane

 

Pirates of the Airwaves (2013)

Feature-length docu-drama

Lippy Pictures/TVNZ

Co-writer and producer with Donna Malane

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Tangiwai - A Love Story (2011)
Telefeature drama
Lippy Pictures/TVNZ
Co-writer and producer with Donna Malane

Bloodlines (2010)
Telefeature drama
Screentime/TVNZ
Co-writer with Donna Malane

Until Proven Innocent (2009)
Telefeature drama
Lippy Pictures/TVNZ
Co-writer and producer with Donna Malane

Time Trackers (2009)
13 x 30min children's time-travel series
Gibson/TV2 (NZ) TaylorMedia/Channel 7 (Australia)
Co-creator, co-producer, writer several episodes

The Simon Eliot Show - Series 2 (2008)
13 x 30min children’s animated quiz show
Gibson Group/TV3
Writer, 5 episodes

Burying Brian (2008)
6 x 1hr 8.30 drama
Eyeworks Touchdown/TVNZ
Script development and story editor

Bro'Town (2006-7)
Animated half-hour 7.30pm comedy series
Firehorse/TV3
Script consultant series 3, 4, 5

The Insiders Guide to Love (2005)
6 x 1hr 10.30pm drama
Gibson Group/TVNZ
Inhouse writer, several episodes

The Insiders Guide to Happiness (2004)
13 x 1hr 10.30pm drama
Gibson Group/TVNZ
Inhouse writer, several episodes

The Strip - Series 2 (2003)
20 x 1hr 9.30pm drama
Gibson Group/TV3
Inhouse writer, several episodes

 

The Strip - Series 1 (2002)
20 x 1hr 9.30pm drama
Gibson Group/TV3
Inhouse writer, several episodes

Coverstory (1995)
13 x 1hr 9.30pm drama
Gibson Group/TV3
Writer, Episode 11

Published works
Young Adult Novels:
Out Walked Mel (McIndoe 1991, Hyland House Australia)
Sasscat to Win (McIndoe 1993, Hyland House Australia)
Home Run (Longacre 1995, Hyland House Australia)
Dare Truth or Promise (Longacre 1997, Hyland House Australia, The Women's Press U.K., Houghton & Mifflin U.S.A.)
Power and Chaos (Random House, 2000)

Stories in the following anthologies:
Nearly Seventeen ed. Tessa Duder (Penguin 1993)
Falling in Love ed. Tessa Duder (Penguin 1995)
New Zealand Love Stories ed. Fiona Kidman (Oxford 1999)
It Looks Better on You, NZ Women Writers on their Friendships ed. Jane Westaway & Tessa Copland (Longacre 2003)
Montana Essay Series (book):On Make-up and Makeover (Four Winds Press 2003)