Our People
Alan Hall
Series Producer
Over the past two decades Alan has worked for both commercial production companies and public broadcasters and earned several industry accolades including a United Nations Media Peace prize and several Walkley Awards. The former journalist turned broadcaster, has produced and executive produced a range of programs across several genres.
Peter Hayden
Supervising Producer
Since joining NHNZ in 1980, Peter has been a writer, producer and director for many award-winning documentaries and, headed the company's development team. In 2002 he was appointed Head of Special Projects and spearheaded NHNZ's initial production effort in China. In 2003 Peter executive produced several high profile programs before co-writing and narrating the Equator series. He is currently supervising writer and producer for the upcoming science and nature series Weird Edens.
Ian McGee
Series Producer
With a background as a zoologist and unique ability to interpret the amazing phenomena of the animal kingdom, Ian has produced and written a number of hugely successful natural history programs. In 1999 Ian won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in a Craft in News and Documentary Programming - Writers for Twisted Tales: The Bat. The following year, Ian and co-writer Quinn Berentson were nominated for an Emmy Award in the same category. In 2002 Ian picked up this third Emmy nomination for Most Extreme: Jumpers.
Kyle Murdoch
Producer, China Projects
Kyle has worked for NHNZ for over a decade, joining the company after completing an MA with distinction in archaeology. Over that time he's worked on a wide variety of factual television genres, including science shows such as Body Wars and Microbe Invasion, adventure programs like X Force, and the award winning natural history countdown series The Most Extreme. Today Kyle looks after NHNZ's growing slate of China based productions, producing documentaries such as Inside Kung Fu Inc and Inside Ice Vegas.
Jayashree Panjabi
Producer
Jayashree's career in television began as a children's program presenter over 20 years ago, she then spent a decade working for TVNZ on children's, magazine and documentary programs. In the 1990s Jayashree became a freelance producer for a number of award-winning documentaries. After break from television production, she returned to the industry in 2002 to produce a diverse range of documentary programs and series for NHNZ.
Max Quinn
Producer
Max has worked as a camera operator, producer and director for over four decades in television production, and has specialized in natural history programming since the 1980s. Max is a veteran of filmmaking in the polar regions and has now made around 15 programs in and around the frozen regions.
