Robyn Paterson
Robyn Paterson won attention in 2012 for directing award-winning film Finding Mercy, in which she headed back to her Zimbabwe birthplace to find a best friend from childhood. Feature documentary In the Zone followed in 2018, which explored a man's efforts to transform educational outcomes for disadvantaged youth in Auckland and Chicago. Paterson has worked in numerous roles: from directing factual TV shows (Grand Designs, Attitude) to writing (The Simon Eliot Show, Facelift) and casting. She has also faced the camera as a Queer Nation presenter and occasional actor, and is a published author.
We carried tension with us throughout the journey, because you really don’t know in Zimbabwe where the threat is coming from. There’s a saying over there: 'The spider you can’t see is worse than the spider you can see.' Robyn Paterson on filming documentary Finding Mercy in secret, The Listener, 6 December 2012
NZ Creative Genius videos - NZ Police
2020, Writer/Director - Zoom meeting, As: worker trapped on mute - Web
On the Rag
2019 - 2022, Director - Web
Making New Zealand - Manufacturing
2019, Director - Television
In the Zone
2018, Director, Writer, Producer - Film
Making New Zealand
2014 - 2019, Director - Television
Attitude - Rotationplasty: My Backwards Foot
2014, Director - Television
Loading Docs 2014 - Queer Selfies
2014, Director - Web
Auckland Daze - Series Two
2013, Production Coordinator - Web
Finding Mercy
2012, Director, Subject, Writer - Film
Auckland Daze
2011 - 2014, Production Coordinator - Web
Facelift - Series Four, Episode One
2007, Writer, As: Various roles - Television
The Simon Eliot Show
2008, Producer, Writer - Television
Attitude
2019, Producer - Television
Facelift
2006-2007, Writer, Script Editor - Television
Queer Nation - Marilyn Waring
2004, Director, Presenter, Writer - Television
Queer Nation - Takatāpui
2004, Writer, Presenter - Television
Queer Nation
2004, Director, Writer, Presenter - Television