South Pacific Pictures is a New Zealand television production company. The company produces drama series, mini-series, telemovies and feature films for the domestic market and international market. SPP's largest property is Shortland Street the half-hour soap opera for TVNZ 2. 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 May 2000, 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 Māori Television Service.
South Pacific Pictures was founded by CEO John Barnett.[1]
Film
Television
Current productions
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s–20s
Television films
Film & television library from Subsidiaries
SLR Productions
Live Action
- Deadly (2006; with Yoram Gross Productions)
- I Got a Rocket (2006–2007)
- Dex Hamilton: Alien Entomologist (2008–2009)
- Gasp! (2010–2011)
- The DaVincibles (2011)
- Guess How Much I Love You (2011–2017)
- Teenage Fairytale Dropouts (2012–2013)
- The Skinner Boys: Guardians of the Lost Secrets (2014–2017)
- Captain Flinn and the Pirate Dinosaurs (2015)
- Lexi & Lottie: Trusty Twin Detectives (2016–2017)
- Alice-Miranda Friends Forever (2019)
- Berry Bees (2019–2020)
- Space Nova (2021)
- Alice-Miranda: A Royal Christmas Ball (2021)
- Sam Fox: Extreme Adventures (2014–2015)
External links
References
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