I grew up around filmmaking when my dad, Geoff Murphy, started making films in the 60's and 70's. As a grown up, I’ve worked in the New Zealand film and television industry since the 80’s. Over the decades I’ve crewed in the art department, worked for many years as an assistant director, and have location scouted and managed numerous feature films and TV productions. Projects range from early features such as Goodbye Pork Pie, Once Were Warriors, and later The Lord of the Rings trilogy, King Kong and The Breaker Upperers. TV/streamer series work includes Outrageous Fortune, Power Rangers, Sweet Tooth (pilot), One Of Us Is Lying (S1), The Gone (S1) and After The Party.

Since the late 1990’s, I’ve juggled my freelance crew work with developing and producing short films, feature films and web series.

In 2017 I formed another production company, Fired Up Productions, in partnership with writer/director Ness Simons, with a particular focus on bringing diverse stories to mainstream audiences. Together we’ve released two seasons of the popular web series Pot Luck, and in 2019/2020 we post produced and self-distributed Bea Joblin’s indie feature film Births, Deaths and Marriages (NZIFF 2019) into NZ cinemas before, and after, the first Covid-19 lockdown. Fired Up’s latest project is a short film by Wellington filmmaker Jane Ballentyne which is currently in post production.

In 2019 and 2020 I co-produced two other feature films Lowdown Dirty Criminals and PUNCH which were released in Aotearoa (New Zealand) and internationally, in 2020 and 2022 respectively.

Although busy producing, I still enjoy working in a variety of roles across the film industry, and continue to offer my services as a freelance contractor. A link to my IMDB profile is at top of the page, and a full CV is below.