Toa Fraser
In 2006 playwright Toa Fraser turned No. 2, his award-winning play about a mixed-race Fijian family, into an acclaimed movie. His second feature Dean Spanley took away seven awards at the 2009 Qantas Film Awards, including Best Director. Fraser went on to direct ballet documentary Giselle, te reo action film The Dead Lands, and London hostage drama 6 Days, before helming a run of international TV projects.
My inspirations are from people and the street. It’s not from sitting in a room and formulating things from the back of my head. Toa Fraser, in an interview with Catherine Bisley for website Lumière, May 2007
ScreenTalk Legends - Toa Fraser
Interview, 2024
Teine Sā - The Ancient Ones (excerpts)
2021, Director Mentor - Web
The Free Man
2017, Director, Story Treatment - Film
6 Days
2017, Director - Film
The Dark Horse
2014, Script Consultant - Film
The Dead Lands
2014, Director - Film
Seven Sharp
2013, Subject - Television
Giselle
2013, Director - Film
Not Given Lightly
2012, Director, Subject - Music video
Neighbourhood
2012, Presenter - Television
Dean Spanley
2008, Director - Film
Pop Goes the Weasel - Series Three, Episode Four
2007, Subject - Television
Bathe in the River
2006, Director - Music video
No. 2
2006, Director, Writer, Original Author - Film
Pop Goes the Weasel
2005 - 2007, Subject - Television
River Queen
2005, Writer - Film
Close Up
2007, Subject - Television
Space
2003, Subject - Television
Staunch
1999, Writer - Television
Waka Huia
2014, Subject - Television
Tagata Pasifika
1987 - ongoing, Subject - Television
Te Karere
2013, 2014, Subject - Television