Creator

Roger Mirams

Known for

Creator

Credits

6 titles

Known for

Broken Barrier poster
6.5

Tom Sullivan, a young Pakeha journalist researching a series of exploitative, tabloid articles on "the" Maori people becomes a casual labourer on a Mahia Peninsular farm. The emotional liaison he forms with Rawi, a young Maori woman exposes the racism engendered by the particular social attitudes and expectations of that time.

Broken Barrier

1952

Funny Things Happen Down Under poster
6.4

When the clubhouse of a group of country kids, known as the "Terrible ten" needs money for funding they invent numerous ways to make money. During their attempts at making puddings and selling mineral water they stumble on a formula for breeding coloured sheep.

Funny Things Happen Down Under

1965

No artwork available
NR

This promotion for the Edmonds Baking Powder Company features beloved radio personality Aunt Daisy (Maud Ruby Basham). Its narrative is entrenched with the gender stereotypes of 1950s suburbia.

Cookery Nook

1955

Which Way to the War poster
NR

Libya, October 1942. A party of British Desert Rat soldiers and two Australian soldiers are holed up in a remote building, when an ambulance of Italian "nurses" arrives.

Which Way to the War

1994

The Scalp Merchant poster
7.0

Why is everyone out to sabotage him? Cliff Rowan has been hired to recover a stolen payroll hidden in the rugged Australian hills and mountains near his boyhood town. But instead of a warm welcome and helping hand, his former sweatheart, his old school friends, and in fact, practically the whole town...want him out! When his friend, Riley, is needlessly killed, Cliff realizes the buried strongbox holds more than cold cash. The mystery unfolds.

The Scalp Merchant

1978

Behind the camera

Broken Barrier poster
6.5

Tom Sullivan, a young Pakeha journalist researching a series of exploitative, tabloid articles on "the" Maori people becomes a casual labourer on a Mahia Peninsular farm. The emotional liaison he forms with Rawi, a young Maori woman exposes the racism engendered by the particular social attitudes and expectations of that time.

Broken Barrier

1952

Funny Things Happen Down Under poster
6.4

When the clubhouse of a group of country kids, known as the "Terrible ten" needs money for funding they invent numerous ways to make money. During their attempts at making puddings and selling mineral water they stumble on a formula for breeding coloured sheep.

Funny Things Happen Down Under

1965

No artwork available
NR

This promotion for the Edmonds Baking Powder Company features beloved radio personality Aunt Daisy (Maud Ruby Basham). Its narrative is entrenched with the gender stereotypes of 1950s suburbia.

Cookery Nook

1955

No artwork available
NR

This promotion for the Edmonds Baking Powder Company features beloved radio personality Aunt Daisy (Maud Ruby Basham). Its narrative is entrenched with the gender stereotypes of 1950s suburbia.

Cookery Nook

1955

Which Way to the War poster
NR

Libya, October 1942. A party of British Desert Rat soldiers and two Australian soldiers are holed up in a remote building, when an ambulance of Italian "nurses" arrives.

Which Way to the War

1994

The Scalp Merchant poster
7.0

Why is everyone out to sabotage him? Cliff Rowan has been hired to recover a stolen payroll hidden in the rugged Australian hills and mountains near his boyhood town. But instead of a warm welcome and helping hand, his former sweatheart, his old school friends, and in fact, practically the whole town...want him out! When his friend, Riley, is needlessly killed, Cliff realizes the buried strongbox holds more than cold cash. The mystery unfolds.

The Scalp Merchant

1978