Peter Wells
Peter Wells broke ground as one of the first New Zealanders to tell gay stories on-screen. Aside from his work as an author, he explored gay and historical themes in several acclaimed drama and documentaries — including pioneering TV drama A Death in the Family, colourful big screen melodrama Desperate Remedies and Georgina Beyer documentary Georgie Girl. Wells died on 18 February 2019.
When I was a kid I was constantly dreaming of other places apart from where I lived … in some ways I treated aesthetics as an anaesthetic to help me cope with lots of things. Peter Wells in his 2001 documentary Pansy
Peter Wells: Desperate Remedies and making queer films...
Interview, 2014
In Memoriam 2019
2019, Subject - Television
50 Years of New Zealand Television: 2 - The Whole World's Watching
2010, Subject - Television
50 Years of New Zealand Television: 5 - Telling Stories
2010, Subject - Television
50 Years of New Zealand Television: 6 - A Sense of Identity
2010, Subject - Television
New Zealand at Home - Modernism Triumphant (Episode Six)
2006, Co-Producer - Television
Pansy
2001, Director, Writer, Camera - Television
Georgie Girl
2001, Co-Director - Film
Perfectly Frank - The Life of a New Zealand Writer
1998, Subject - Television
Memory and Desire
1998, Original Author - Film
When Love Comes
1998, Writer - Film
One of Them!
1997, Writer, Original Author - Television
Seeing Red
1995, As: NFU filmmaker - Television
Desperate Remedies
1993, Co-Director, Writer - Film
Good Intentions
1989, Director, Writer, Narrator - Short Film
The Mighty Civic
1988, Director, Writer - Television
A Death in the Family
1986, Co-Director, Writer - Television
About Face - Jewel's Darl
1985, Writer, Director - Television
About Face - My First Suit
1985, Writer, Art Director - Television
Project Takahē
1981, Assistant Editor - Television