South Pacific Pictures

South Pacific Pictures is a television production company based in New Zealand. The company produces drama series, mini-series, telemovies and feature films for the domestic market and international market. [2] SPP's largest property is Shortland Street the half hour soap for TVNZ's TV2. In 2006, the company released Sione's Wedding and in 2002, the Oscar-nominated feature film Whale Rider. In 1998 the company produced the feature film, What Becomes of the Broken Hearted?, the sequel to Once Were Warriors.

In August 1999, the company moved from Browns Bay (Auckland) to a new purpose built studio complex in Henderson, West Auckland.

SPP is in a joint venture with Australian company SLR Productions to produce animated shows aimed at international markets and also has a 50% interest in Satellite Media and has also created a joint venture known as Kura Productions with Quinton Hita to produce programming for the Maori Television Service.

South Pacific Pictures is owned by CEO John Daniel Barnett and UK based All3Media.

Production history

• The Blue Rose - 13 x 1 hour crime drama series, TV3, New Zealand
• Nothing Trivial - 13 x 1 hour comedy drama series, TV One, New Zealand
• The Almighty Johnsons - 1 hour drama series, TV3, New Zealand
• Outrageous Fortune 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6 - 1 hour drama series, TV3, New Zealand
• Go Girls 1, 2, 3 - 1 hour comedy/drama series, TV2, New Zealand
• Wa$ted! - 1/2 hour eco series, TV3, New Zealand
• Maddigan's Quest - 1/2 hour fantasy drama series, TV3, CBBC, Nine Network Australia
• Sione's Wedding (aka Samoan Wedding) - Feature Film
• We're Here To Help - Feature Film
• New Zealand Idol series 1 (2004), 2 (2005), 3 (2006) - Entertainment, TV2, New Zealand
• How Clean is Your House? series 1 & 2 - 1/2 hour factual series, TV One, New Zealand
• Shortland Street 14 - ½ hour drama serial, TV2, New Zealand
• Mercy Peak 3 - 20x1hour drama series (Eps 41-60), TV ONE, New Zealand
• Shortland Street 12 - 250x½ hour drama serial, TV2, New Zealand
• Being Eve 2 - 13x½ hour teen drama (Eps 14-26), TV3, New Zealand
• Mataku 2002 - 8x½ hour Maori drama series (Eps 6-13), TV3, New Zealand
• Mercy Peak 2 - 20x1hour drama (Eps 21-40), TV ONE, New Zealand
• Shortland Street 11 - 250x½ hour drama serial, TV2, New Zealand
• Whale Rider - 35mm feature film
• Being Eve 1 - 13x½ hour (Eps 1-13), TV3, New Zealand
• Mataku 2001 - 5x½ hour Maori drama series (Eps 1-5), TV3, New Zealand
• Mercy Peak 1 - 20x1hour drama (Eps 1-20), TV ONE, New Zealand
• Shortland Street 10 - 250x½ hour drama serial. TV2, New Zealand
• Jackson's Wharf 2 - 20x1hour drama serial, TV2, New Zealand
• Lawless: Beyond Justice - 90min action drama telefeature
• Lawless: Dead Evidence - 90min action drama telefeature
• Shortland Street 9 - 250x½ hour drama serial,TV2, New Zealand
• Fearless - 90min telefeature, New Zealand / Canadian Co-Production
• Jackson's Wharf 1 - 26x1hour or 52x½ hour drama serial, TV2, New Zealand
• Jubilee - 35mm feature film
• Lawless - 90min action drama telefeature
• Market Forces 2 - 7x½ hour sitcom (Eps 8-14), TV ONE, New Zealand
• Shortland Street 8 - 250x½ hour drama serial, TV2, New Zealand
• What Becomes of the Broken Hearted? - 35mm feature film
• Shortland Street 7 - 250x½ hour drama serial, TV2, New Zealand
• Double Booking - ½ hour Comedy Playhouse
• House of Sticks - 1hour Montana Sunday Theatre, TV ONE, New Zealand
• Market Forces 1 - 7x½ hour sitcom (Eps 1-7), TV ONE, New Zealand
• McPhail & Gadsby - 7x½ hour political satire, TV ONE, New Zealand
• Shortland Street 6 - 250x½ hour drama serial, TV2, New Zealand
• Tales of the South Seas - 22 x 1hour drama
• Citylife - 26x1hour drama series, TV2, New Zealand
• Shortland Street 5 - 250x½ hour drama serial, TV2, New Zealand
• Riding High - 65x½ hour children's series, Production Services Only
• Shortland Street 4 - 250x½ hour drama serial, TV2, New Zealand
• Plainclothes 1 - 18x1hour adult drama (Eps 1-18), TV ONE, New Zealand
• Plainclothes 2 - 8x1hour adult drama (Eps 19-26), TV ONE, New Zealand
• Shortland Street 3 - 250x½ hour drama serial, TV2, New Zealand
• Adrift - 1x90min telefeature, Production Services Only
• Deepwater Haven - 26x½ hour family drama
• Fallout - 2x2hour mini-series
• Marlin Bay 3 - 13x1hour drama (Eps 27-39), TV ONE, New Zealand
• Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle - 13 x half hour children's drama, Production Services Only
• Shortland Street 2 - 250x½ hour drama serial, TV2, New Zealand
• Soldier Soldier - 3x1hour adult drama, Production Services Only for Central TV (UK)
• White Fang - 25x½ hour family drama, Production Services Only
• Kurt Vonnegut's Monkey House - 3x½ hour
• Marlin Bay 2 - 13x1hour drama (Eps 14-26), TV ONE, New Zealand
• The Other Side of Paradise - 2x90min mini-series, Production Services Only
• The Ray Bradbury Theatre - 23x½ hour
• Shortland Street 1 - 250x½ hour drama serial, TV2, New Zealand
• The Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior - 2x1hour mini-series, Production Services Only for Ten-Four Productions (USA)
• End of the Golden Weather - 35mm feature film
• Growing Rich - 6x1hour drama, Production Services Only for Granada UK
• Marlin Bay 1 - 13x1hour drama (Eps 1-13), TV ONE, New Zealand
• Old Scores - 1x90min telefeature
• The Sound and the Silence - 2x90min mini-series, Production Services Only
• The Boy From Andromeda - 6x½ hour family drama
• Gold - 20x½ hour family drama
• Raider of the South Seas - 8x½ hour family drama, Production Services Only
• Star Runner - 8x½ hour family drama
• African Journey - 6x½ hour family drama
• All for One - 8x½ hour children's drama
• Betty's Bunch - 13x½ hour family drama
• Space Knights - 22x½ hour children's series
• Spies and Lies - 90 minute TV movie based on the true story of confidence trickster Syd Ross, who convinced the Prime Minister of the time, Peter Fraser, that he had secret knowledge of a Nazi plot to invade New Zealand

External links

• South Pacific Pictures Website