Peter Meteherangi Tikao Burger
Ngāi Tahu, Rangitāne and Pākehā (European).
Māori stories and characters have been a consistent theme though Peter’s career. His first drama Fish Skin Suit, a story about a Māori family touched by magic, won Best Drama in the 2002 NZ Film and Television Awards. In the same year his short film Turangawaewae was selected for Critic's Week at Cannes.
Since then, Peter has directed a string of award-winning telefeatures for the New Zealand domestic market, from What Really Happened: Waitangi, which examines our nation’s foundational agreement between Māori and the British Crown, to Resolve which deals with the difficult subject of violent Māori gangs two hundred years later. Then into the trenches of the Great War for Field Punishment No.1, which was the Winner of a Gold World Medal at the New York Festivals 2015.
In the past five years, every series Peter’s led has had some element of international collaboration. From offshore commissions like The Dead Lands for AMC’s Shudder, to co-productions like The Gone for TVNZ and Ireland’s RTE. Other shows like One Lane Bridge were commissioned locally and later sold to premiere clients like Sundance Now.
Peter Burger is a fluent speaker of Te Reo Māori.
