Our People
Kelly Martin
CEO
Kelly is the Chief Executive of South Pacific Pictures. She oversees the management and direction of the company and all its productions. She is also responsible for generating and maintaining key relationships with South Pacific Pictures' shareholders, distributors, production partners and industry bodies.
Mail: PO Box 104 124, Lincoln North, Auckland, 0654, New Zealand
Delivery: 8 Tolich Place, Henderson, Auckland, 0654, New Zealand
Tel: +64 9 839 0930
Fax: +64 9 839 0990
Andrew Szusterman
Managing Director
Andrew is responsible for the management and direction of South Pacific Pictures and works directly with CEO, Kelly Martin.
Previously Andrew worked with Mediaworks, originally as a Programme Director for radio before takinghis talent for curating content for young audiences and establishing thenetwork’s free-to-air music channel, C4. In 2008, Szusterman became Associate Director of Programming for Three, playing an integral role in introducing locally produced formats, including New Zealand's Next Top Model and XFactor. Andrew was Chief Content Officer at MediaWorks from 2014 until 2019, responsible for programming content across Mediawork’s TV, radio and digital platforms.
Mail: PO Box 104 124, Lincoln North, Auckland, 0654, New Zealand
Delivery: 8 Tolich Place, Henderson, Auckland, 0654, New Zealand
Tel: +64 9 839 0930
Fax: +64 9 839 0990
Tania Bettany
Chief Financial Officer
Tania is South Pacific Pictures Chief Financial Officer. She manages the corporate and production finance departments, overseeing all daily transactions, providing reports to shareholders and other interested parties. She also manages, develops and implements the financial systems for the company.
Mail: PO Box 104 124, Lincoln North, Auckland, 0654, New Zealand
Delivery: 8 Tolich Place, Henderson, Auckland, 0654, New Zealand
Tel: +64 9 839 0936
Fax: +64 9 839 0990
Jessica Wiseman
Head of Legal and Business Affairs
Jessica is South Pacific Pictures' Head of Legal and Business Affairs. With wide experience in intellectual property, licensing, online media and entertainment law, Jessica is the lawyer for most of the needs of the productions and the company, including writing and negotiating contracts with funders, broadcasters, personnel and others.
Mail: PO Box 104 124, Lincoln North, Auckland, 0654, New Zealand
Delivery: 8 Tolich Place, Henderson, Auckland, 0654, New Zealand
Tel: +64 9 837 9023
Fax: +64 9 839 0990
Sally Campbell
Head of Production
Sally Campbell is an experienced producer with nearly 30 years in the industry. She has history as a Production Accountant, Production Manager, Line Producer, Producer and Executive Producer.
She has been a Producer on five series of the international television series Power Rangers, and on Legend of the Seeker in 2010, and Line Producer on 2013’s Evil Dead.
From 2001 to 2003, Sally was the Head of Production at South Pacific Pictures and was instrumental in the producing TV drama such as Mercy Peak, Mataku, Being Eve, Shortland Street and the internationally acclaimed film Whale Rider. Sally served as Executive Producer on Mataku, Being Eve and Shortland Street, and Executive Producer and Line Producer on Mercy Peak.
More recently Sally has produced four series of the award winning The Brokenwood Mysteries.
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Mail: PO Box 104 124, Lincoln North, Auckland, 0654, New Zealand
Delivery: 8 Tolich Place, Henderson, Auckland, 0654, New Zealand
Tel: +64 9 839 0930
Fax: +64 9 839 0990
Hayley Cunningham
Head of Unscripted
Hayley’s career in unscripted television began as a producer on multiple incarnations of The Amazing Race, including the International Emmy-winning Australian version. Series Producer of The X-Factor NZ for Three, she then went on to Executive Produce The Real Housewives of Auckland and 2019’s Best Format Reality Series, Dancing with the Stars NZ for three seasons. Hayley then moved in-house at Media Works, starting as the Head of Development and soon stepping into the role of Senior Network Executive, responsible for three seasons of MAFS NZ, Patrick Gower: On Weed, Stan and Gogglebox NZ. Hayley has since joined South Pacific Pictures as it’s Head of Unscripted, working to expand its slate, including overseeing local versions of hit formats such as The Dog House, Travel Guides, Snack Masters & Sort Your Life Out.
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Mail: PO Box 104 124, Lincoln North, Auckland, 0654, New Zealand
Delivery: 8 Tolich Place, Henderson, Auckland, 0654, New Zealand
Tel: +64 9 839 0456
Fax: +64 9 839 0990
Rachael Keereweer
Head of Communications
Rachael is responsible for the publicity for South Pacific Pictures and its productions. She and her team produce supporting promotional materials for all productions and they work with the local broadcasters and key media to maximise exposure for the company, our productions and other related projects.
Email Rachael: publicity@southpacificpictures.com
Mob: +64 21 (0) 488 948
Mail: PO Box 104 124, Lincoln North, Auckland, 0654, New Zealand
Delivery: 8 Tolich Place, Henderson, Auckland, 0654, New Zealand
Tel: +64 9 839 0347
Fax: +64 9 839 0990
Tim Balme
Writer / Producer
Tim Balme is an experienced writer, storyliner and script editor.
Tim has been writing for television since 2005, when scriptwriter James Griffin read his unmade movie script based on the successful play The Ballad of Jimmy Costello, and invited Tim to write for police drama Interrogation.
Tim went on to join the storylining team for series 2 of Outrageous Fortune and was an integral writer over the six series. He was a key storyliner for that show alongside James and fellow-creator Rachel Lang, as well as writing or co-writing scripts for 22 of the episodes. Tim was also a storyliner and script writer for all 3 series of TV3’s comedy drama The Almighty Johnsons, as well as acting in one of the lead roles.
After leaving his three year long post as Head of Development for South Pacific Pictures, Tim oversaw the development of The Brokenwood Mysteries, a murder mystery miniseries for Prime TV in New Zealand. He is now the Lead Writer on the series.
Jo Johnson
Development Executive
Jo provides administrative support to the development department including assessing submissions, preparing funding applications and selling documents, and liaising with writers and devisors of projects in development.
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Mail: PO Box 104 124, Lincoln North, Auckland, 0654, New Zealand
Delivery: 8 Tolich Place, Henderson, Auckland, 0654, New Zealand
Tel: +64 9 839 0935
Fax: +64 9 839 0990
James Griffin
Head Writer
James Griffin is New Zealand’s best known creator and writer of television drama and comedy with credits that range from 800 Words and The Almighty Johnsons to Shortland Street and Sione's Wedding.
Most recently James has co-created 800 Words with Maxine Fleming and also wrote one of the four telefeatures in South Pacific Pictures' murder mystery series, The Brokenwood Mysteries. Along with Rachel Lang , James co-created Westside, the six-part prequel to Outrageous Fortune, set in 1970s and 80s Auckland and focusing on Ted and Rita West.
A full bio can be provided on request or visit NZ on Screen.
Mail: PO Box 104 124, Lincoln North, Auckland, 0654, New Zealand
Delivery: 8 Tolich Place, Henderson, Auckland, 0654, New Zealand
Tel: +64 9 839 0999
Fax: +64 9 839 0990
Nick Malmholt
Executive Producer (Shortland Street)
Shortland Street’s Head Writer Nick Malmholt, started as a journalist, then went onto copywriting before finding his passion in television drama.
Nick has enjoyed many years of collaboration as a writer, executive producer and creator on many successful productions around the world including Shortland Street, Coronation Street, Neighbours and the award winning series Bad Girls.
Melanie Jones
As Studio Manager
Melanie is responsible for all property related matters within the studio complex. This includes all repairs and maintenance, security, cleaning, upgrades or refurbishment to the building.
Melanie also oversees the marketing and rental of Studios 1 and 2 to external clients, as well as liaising between the various productions working within the studios.
Email Melanie
Mob: +64 (0) 21 477 065
Mail: PO Box 104 124, Lincoln North, Auckland, 0654, New Zealand
Delivery: 8 Tolich Place, Henderson, Auckland, 0654, New Zealand
Tel: +64 9 839 0941
Fax: +64 9 839 0990
Laura Hill
Head Writer (Shortland Street)
Laura has a 1st Class Honours degree in English Literature from Victoria, University of Wellington, where she also majored in Theatre and Film.
She gained television acting experience in Duggan, and Questions, a TV drama developed from a stage play dealing with youth suicide. She also worked in radio and at Playmarket, the scriptwriters’ playwrights’ agency, before joining Shortland Street in early 2001 to play Nurse Toni Thompson, one of the show's most popular characters.
After leaving Shortland Street as an actor in 2008, she began training as a storyliner for the show. She then moved on to become a script editor and is now one of two full time Head Writers for the series.
Hannah Marshall
Head of Scripted Development
Hannah works with South Pacific Pictures’ CEO, Kelly Martin, Managing Director, Andrew Szusterman and Head Writer James Griffin to oversee and develop new scripted projects
Mail: PO Box 104 124, Lincoln North, Auckland, 0654, New Zealand
Delivery: 8 Tolich Place, Henderson, Auckland, 0654, New Zealand
Tel: +64 9 839 0930
Fax: +64 9 839 0990
