Video Production New Zealand Documentary & TV Series: Nixon Pictures

Video, Television, Corporate, DVD Production and Filming. Based in Auckland, New Zealand. From concept planning to filming to final output. Over 10 years experience.

TV Series - 'Gone Fishin' - TV3:
Nixon Pictures is now into the 9th year with Graeme Sinclair of 'Gone Fishin'. This is New Zealand's longest running television series ever, being in it's 19th year of production. While sometimes the fish don't always receive the script, it still enjoys the excitement, characters and the locations spread between NZ, Australia, the Pacific Islands and everywhere in between.

A ROTTEN SHAME
Broadcast on TV1 in 2011 and nominated as a finalist in the AFTA awards for best investigative documentary.

Documentary making is our passion. Be it a personal ambition or part of someone else's desire to tell the world their story - we will listen, shoot and give it all the attention it deserves.
Bruce Nixon

Documentary - 'A Rotten Shame' TV1: (2011 AFTA awards finalist)
Please note, Nixon Pictures did not 'produce' this documentary but supplied filming services for the producers; E2 Productions. The doco examined the biggest problem that homeowners have ever had to face in New Zealand - leaky homes. Direct all enquiries to HOBANZ. "Devastatingly laid out... just when you thought the engaging, hard-hitting primetime documentary was as dead as public service television... Excellent if terrifying television." The New Zealand Listener magazine

Nixon Pictures is
a member of Made From New Zealand; An open global community of New Zealand businesses and entrepreneurs.

With 15 years experience of the entire process needed to make good television, Bruce Nixon is able to offer a lot more than your average camera operator. He is a self-directed shooter if required, who can confidently approach the talent or authorities on the directors behalf whether filming with a crew in New Zealand or going solo anywhere in the world. Among the qualifications of a good cameraman, serious application is of first importance. To discuss your project contact Bruce bruce@nixonpictures.co.nz or phone WK +64 9 6306915 MOB +64 21 2704327

Corporate - 'Be. Institute - Be. Accessible':
At a time when the nation’s attention is focused on recreating the built environment of our second-largest city, a new enterprise is launching with two significant and potentially contributory new initiatives: New Zealand’s first nationwide accessibility programme, Be. Accessible, and the first nationwide disability leadership programme of its kind, Be. Leadership. Nixon Pictures client is Borderless Productions. To watch a clip about accessibilty and the Rugby World Cup 2011 click here.

Corporate & Advertising - Citizen Advocacy:
A small community group that promotes one to one relationships between people who have an intellectual disability and committed citizens who are prepared to act voluntarily to make a positive difference in the life of a person who may be alone, face difficult challenges or be in a risky situation. Nixon Pictures client is Borderless Productions.

All Blacks at War;
The 1st XIII:
The 13 All Blacks who lost their lives in WWI no longer have a voice to tell their tale of what it was like to grow up in a new country on the brink of war.
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Massacre at
Passchendaele:
New Zealand in 1917, had just suffered its worst ever military disaster and largest loss of life in a single event - which is still unequalled to this day.
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TV Series - 'Unsung Heroes':
Nixon Pictures is providing filming services for Greenstone TV (client) for a new series about extraordinary people doing amazing things. For starters, we are filming a touching story about an 18 mth old boy from Papua New Guinea who is flying to NZ for a life-changing operation. The unsung heroes are a group of nuro and brain surgeons who have all volunteered their time free of charge through ROMAC.