Awards
Donna was awarded the NZTV Awards for Best Script -Drama for her Telefeature length episode of Duggan: Death in Paradise and was a finalist for this same award the previous year.
Her documentary Tale of Three Chimps which was filmed in NZ and Zambia was awarded the United States International Film and Video Festival: Certificate of Creative Excellence.
Holly's Heroes was awarded AFI Best Children's TV Drama 2005 and Screen Directors Guild Best Children's Programme 2005.
The television drama series The Insiders Guide to Happiness was awarded the 2005 NZ Screen Awards Best Drama Series and The Insiders Guide to Love received 6 awards at Qantas Television Awards including Best NZ Drama 2006.
Some of her Donna Malane's credits are listed below:
Television broadcast
Until Proven Innocent (forthcoming 2009)
Telefeature length drama for Sunday Theatre
Lippy Pictures/TVNZ
Co-writer and producer with Paula Boock
Time Trackers (2008)
13 x 30min children's time-travel series
Gibson/TV2 (NZ) TaylorMedia/Channel 7 (Australia)
Co-creator, co-producer, writer several episodes
The Investigator (2007)
Documentary series investigating NZ crimes
Series Advisor and producer of some episodes
The Insiders Guide to Love (2006)
7 x 1hr television drama series
Gibson Group/TVNZ
Developer, Series Storyliner and Producer (with Dave Gibson & Chris Tyson)
The Insiders Guide to Happiness (20005)
13 x 1hr television drama series
Gibson Group/TVNZ
Developer while Head of Development at The Gibson Group - Series Storyliner and Producer (with Dave Gibson and Jan Haynes)
Holly's Heroes (2004)
Young Adult Drama series (Aus/NZ)
Developer - while Head of Development at The Gibson Group
The Strip - series one (2002)
20 x 1 hr elevision drama series
Writer of 1 x 1hr episode
In Search of the Moa (2002)
1 x1hr international documentary for Nat Geo
i.d.productions/The Gibson Group
Producer/ writer
A Tale of Three Chimps (international and domestic versions) (2001)
1x1hr documentary (shot in NZ and Zambia) for TV3 (NZ) and Nat Geo
i.d.productions/The Gibson Group
Producer/ writer
Dark Knight
Drama/Fantasy television series BBC2
Script doctor/editor and writer - multiple episodes of the series.
Duggan - telefeatures
3 x feature length dramas - police crime series set in NZ's Marlborough Sounds
A Shadow of Doubt ( TV Awards Best Script - Drama) - writer
Sins of the Father (co-written with Ken Duncum)
Death in Paradise (co-written with Ken Duncum)
Duggan - series
7 x 1 hr television drama series - police drama set in NZ’s Marlborough Sounds
Series Storyliner (with Ken Duncum)
Episode; Death at TePapa - writer
Mirror Mirror - series 2
Children's drama series (Aus/NZ)
Series storyliner
Indelible Evidence
6x 1hr Doco-Drama series on crimes solved by forensics - co-production BBC/ NZ
Stikovitch Bombing - Writer of episode
The Rainbow Warrior - Writer of episode
Shark in the Park
Police drama television series
Writer of 2 x 1 hr episodes
Xmas for Lou
1 x 1hr one-off television drama
TVNZ
Writer (TV Awards: Best Drama)
Crimewatch
TVNZ
Series researcher/reconstruction writer
- multiple episodes/mulitple series
Childwatch
TVNZ special
Reconstruction writer
Away Laughing: Series 1
Sketch comedy series
sketch writer
Away Laughing: Series 2
Sketch comedy series
In-house sketch writer
Skitz: Series 1
Sketch comedy series
In-house comedy sketch writer
Skitz: Series 2
Sketch comedy series
In-house comedy sketch writer
Books - Writer
A Girls' Guide to Rugby: Pub: Hodder Moa Beckett (sport/humorous)
Alien Time: Pub: Reed (young adult)
Learning Media (Pub) books and text for International market: multiple titles