An iconoclast with a bent for experimentation, director Paul Maunder brought the mixed flavours of social realism and the arthouse to New Zealand screens in the 1960s and 70s, before shifting stages and leaving the government's National Film Unit, to concentrate on theatre. His second feature Sons for the Return Home (1979) as the first film to dramatise the experience of Pacific Islanders living in contemporary New Zealand.
Nothing Paul ever did at the Film Unit was how the Film Unit had ever done it before. Fellow National Film Unit director Hugh Macdonald
2010, Subject - Television
2000, Additional Footage - Television
1986, As: Felix - Film
1979, Director, Writer - Film
1975 - 1983, Director - Television
1975, Director, Writer, Editor - Television
1974, Editor, Director - Film
1973, Director, Writer, Editor - Television
1973, Director, Writer - Short Film
1972, Writer, Director - Television
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