Jane Scott

Jane Scott is the accounts officer of the NZFVTG. She also works as a financial manager, production manager and line producer. Here’s a few things about Jane – who all of you are in contact with, but not everyone has met – and her work in film and with the Guild.

Many of you will know Jane (or Heeni-Jane as her Maori colleagues know her!) from her previous role as a production manager. She has been in the film and television industry since 1980, a lot of that time being in the Maori and Pacific programmes department at TVNZ.

She had seven years in the UK film and television industry as assistant accountant or tutor/chaperone on many feature films and television dramas and joined TVNZ in 1988 where she spent three years in the finance and entertainment departments before starting in the Maori and Pacific programmes (MPP) department as the production manager on the award-winning programme Waka Huia where she stayed for 14 years working on about 500 Waka Huia documentaries.

During that time she also helped out on all the core MPP programmes, Tagata Pasifika, Te Karere, Marae, Mai Time and the specials such as When the Haka Became Boogie, Gig on the Roof and He Wai. Some of the other programmes she worked on were Te Ngakau Hihiko, The Film and Television Awards, the Maori rugby documentary, the Ngarimu VC documentary and the He Rau Aroha documentary which was nominated for best documentary at the Film and Television Awards in 2000.

The MPP department at TVNZ produced the Maori Sports Awards from 1992 until 2004 and The Aotearoa Traditional Maori Performing Arts Festival (Matatini) in 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002 and 2005. Jane was the production manager and DA for all of them working alongside producer Derek Wooster and many other OB directors.

In 2005 she left TVNZ and became a freelance production manager and line producer working on Kiwi Mara, Marae DIY, Mucking In, Moteatea, Maumahara, E Kii, E Kii and three series of Miharo (125 eps). During that time she worked on the documentaries Whanau 2007, Ta Paora, He Maori He Turi and Amohia Te Mauri. She also spent some time at Maori Television and worked on ANZAC, Homai te Pakipaki, Newsbites, the Sounds of Hope documentary and the archival series, Nga Taonga Whitiahua.

In 2006 Jane went back to the film industry for the first time in many years working alongside Keith MacKenzie as accounts assistant on the American made-for-TV movie Bird Flu produced at Film Factory in Rosebank Road by Sony for ABC.

In 2010 she returned to the MPP department at TVNZ as production manager of Marae Investigates and then financial manager for department, looking after the budgets for Fresh, Tagata Pasifika, Marae, Waka Huia, Te Karere and the operational budget.

In February 2015, when TVNZ decided to outsource their Maori and Pacific programmes and everybody was made redundant Jane decided to continue to do what she does best – accounts!

She now has three jobs – production accountant for Sunpix Ltd, accounts assistant for Attitude Pictures and of course the accounts officer for the Techos’ Guild.

Jane lives at Muriwai Beach (she’s the treasurer of the Muriwai Surf Club) and she absolutely loves working from home with her view of stunning Muriwai Beach, looking after all the Techos and their accounts!