Roger Horrocks can offer a long-term perspective on the New Zealand industry since he has been involved with film since the early 1970s, as a champion of film-making, film archiving, and film education. He was a board member of NZ On Air for its first ten years. In 2004 he received an MNZM award for his “services to the film and television industries,” and in 2010 received the Industry Mentor Award at the first Writers’ Guild national scriptwriting awards. He has researched, written or directed a number of films, and currently works with his wife Shirley Horrocks at Point of View Productions. His latest project is the script for Len Lye: the opera, which will be premiered at the Maidment Theatre in Auckland on September 5th-8th. (Roger once worked as the assistant of film-maker Len Lye.)
