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 work with developing and producing short films, feature films and web series.

From 2015 I started collaborating with writer/director/producer Ness Simons and we produced a number of projects, including the multi award winning web series Pot Luck. In 2019/2020 we 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. Our latest collaboration is as co-producers for the short film by Wellington filmmaker Jane Ballentyne in 2024, 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 developing and producing projects of passion, I’m still actively working as a free lance Location Manager in the New Zealand film industry. A link to my IMDB profile is at top of the page, and a full CV is below.