Hugh Macdonald

A crew photo for NFU film This is New Zealand. From front, starting on the left: Geoffrey Scott (executive producer), Hugh Macdonald (glasses & beard - writer/director), David Fowler (producer), Rob Ritchie (associate director), Martin Townsend (title designer), Sam Grau (camera), Mac Ashley (technical manager), Kit Rollings (sound) Brian Shennan (sound) Cecil Forsberg (title designer), Kerry Coe (technician) Ron Skelley (associate sound mixer) and technicians Bruce McKenzie, Jim Chandler &  Henry van Tulder.

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Press above for widescreen scenic view! A scene from Hugh Macdonald's three-screen spectacular This is New Zealand (1970). The film wowed audiences at a world expo in Japan, before finding unexpected success in New Zealand cinemas.

Governor George Grey (Corin Redgrave) and friend — from the second episode of miniseries The Governor, one of two episodes directed by the National Film Unit's Hugh Macdonald.

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Judy Cleine as Eliza Grey in historical epic The Governor. She featured in a number of episodes, especially 'No Way to Treat a Lady', the episode devoted to her relationship with George Grey.

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A promotional image from Bob Stenhouse's animated short The Orchard (1995). A decade earlier, when Stenhouse and Orchard producer Hugh Macdonald both worked at the National Film Unit, they were nominated for an Oscar for The Frog, the Dog and the Devil (1986).

Supplied by the NZ Film Commission, drawn by Bob Stenhouse

A hand-drawn frame by Bob Stenhouse from his 1995 animated short The Orchard. 

Drawn by Bob Stenhouse