Jane Robertson

Jane Robertson began her career with an onscreen role as one of the school classmates of Pauline Parker and Juliet Hulme in the 1994 Peter Jackson film Heavenly Creatures. Since then Jane has worked mainly off-screen, in New Zealand, UAE, China and the UK, producing, directing and creating numerous factual series, documentaries and programmes that have sold and screened around the world. She is currently (2019) based in Wellington, New Zealand and is a Producer with Gibson Group. After studying Film and Theatre at Canterbury University and Television Production at the New Zealand Broadcasting School, Jane started working with Wellington prod-co Ninox Film and Television in 2002. Over the next five years with Ninox, Jane worked on the feature length Janet Frame documentary Wrestling With the Angel and WW1 documentary, Women at War, as well as working across a number of other documentaries and popular factual series, including Dangerous Waters, Sensing Murder and multiple series of Mitre 10 Dream Home. In 2006 she developed and produced the three part documentary series Coroner's Inquest and became producer and director, then series producer on several series of Location, Location, Location. In 2007 Jane moved to the UK where she produced a weekly political series from ITV's Millbrook Studios for HBL Media in London. She became London based prod-co Talent Television's Development Producer at the end of 2007, developing and creating factual series and programmes for BBC, Channel Four, ITV and Five, including directing and producing So You Think I'm An A***Hole for Virgin. After several years working in the UK, Jane returned to New Zealand and began working with Gibson Group in Wellington. She produced the 2012 mocku-mentary special Ben and Jeremy's Big Road Trip, directed by Jason Stutter with comedians Ben Hurley and Jeremy Corbett improvising their way from one end of the country to the other. Jane continued working with Gibson Group in development and as a producer across a number of productions, including producing the gritty ten-part observational documentary series Prison Families for TV3 as well as creating, developing and producing two series of the award-winning observational documentary series Street Hospital for TVNZ. In 2014 Jane produced the three part documentary series, The Trouble With Murder as well as developing and producing the 2015 documentary series Bullies, both for Prime. Jane dived into the thorny world of gender and neuroscience for the 2017 Prime documentary, All in the Mind and in the same year for TVNZ she uncovered and produced The Secret Lives of Fussy Eaters for TVNZ. Besides working in television and film, Jane also works in visitor experience and exhibitions. She has produced, among other projects, Ka Mate: The Exhibition which was exhibited at Te Papa in 2011 using big screen interactive technology. Jane has also worked in children's television, including with Pukeko Pictures, as a producer on the Chinese New Zealand animation series co-production Kiddets. She is in production (2019) with a Canadian-New Zealand children's series co-production for Gibson Group with accompanying game and AR experience. Jane is developing several documentary films and with filmmaker Tess Hutson, won Doc Edge Best Pitch 2019 as well as the AIDC 2019 FACTory Pitch award for "A Place to Stand", the feature documentary film they are in development with.