Philip Smith (producer)

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Philip Smith

Philip Smith is a New Zealand film and television producer, writer, journalist and musician. He is the founder and co-owner of Australasian media company, Great Southern Television, [1] with offices in Sydney, Auckland and Queenstown. [2]

Smith was awarded the Independent Producer of the Year Award by the Screen Production and Development Association. [3] In 2018 he was named New Zealand Drama Writer of the Year, for the telemovie Why Does Love at the NZTV Awards. In 2020, he co-created the NZ drama, One Lane Bridge, which screens in 28 countries, including AMC in the USA and Arte in France. It won Best Drama in NZ in 2021.

According to IMDB Smith has created or co-created 70 television series in New Zealand and Australia, making him Australasia's leading television creative. He was previously a journalist at the New Zealand Herald. He left to join the Financial Times where he worked as a foreign correspondent from war plagued nations including Burundi and Rwanda . [4] He was the Financial Times correspondent based in Tanzania, East Africa. [5]

Smith was later a journalist at TVNZ and broke the "Bad Blood Scandal" - an award-winning news investigation. He was the presenter of the Wednesday Wire at Auckland's student radio station BFM for three years. He worked for TVNZ in London and covered the Romanian revolution and also reported from Hungary. He won a New York Film and Television Award for his reporting on the Vulcan volcano eruption in Papua New Guinea. [6]

He was the bass player in alternative band This Nations Dreaming which won single of the year in 1990. Smith formed his first television company Uplink Sport with sports presenter Phillip Leishman. He sold the company to UK based sports marketing company Sportsworld Media. [7] He started up a second television production company, Great Southern Television in 2002 with retailer Sir David Levene. [8] The company produces drama, factual and entertainment shows globally. In January 2018, the National Business Review reported that Smith and Levene had sold 70% of Great Southern to Seven West Media in Australia, the owner of the 7 Network.[ citation needed ]

Personal life

Smith lives in Queenstown with his wife, Leanne Malcolm, a television presenter, and their son. [9]

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References

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  2. ↑ "Contact". Great Southern Television. Retrieved 2016-02-29.
  3. ↑ "SPADA Conference: Key Industry Awards Presented". Scoop. Retrieved 2016-02-29.
  4. ↑ "Philip Smith". NZ On Screen. Retrieved 2016-02-29.
  5. ↑ "Philip Smith - Great Southern Producer Interview". NZ On Screen. Retrieved 2016-02-29.
  6. ↑ "The new heroes of New Zealand TV". Idealog. Retrieved 2016-02-29.
  7. ↑ "Sportsworld Acquires New Zealand Presence". Scoop. Retrieved 2016-02-29.
  8. ↑ "Philip Smith - Great Southern Producer Interview". NZ On Screen. Retrieved 2016-02-29.
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