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Director

josh frizzell

Nominated Best Short Series for 'n00b': Canneseries 2025
Nominated Best Drama for 'Friends Like Her': NZTV awards 2024
Nominated Best Telefeature for 'Ablaze': NZTV awards 2020
Nominated Best Director in Drama for 'Fresh Eggs': NZTV awards 2019
Nominated Best Director in Drama for 'Brokenwood Mysteries': NZTV awards 2017

Director

josh frizzell

Finalist for Best Director Drama NZTV awards 2017 | Finalist for Best Director Drama NZTV awards 2019 | Finalist for Best Telefeature NZTV awards 2020.

n00b master trailer

A Remarkable Place To Die

Fresh Eggs Mini Series Warners

Under The Vines S2

Ablaze Telefeature

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Smiths "Chippy Slap"

Santa Air New Zealand

Toyota Camry 90'

Coke "Open Happiness"

V Energy Drink

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Frizzell has been working in the film industry since high school. Starting out in the art department he went on to work as stand-by props and art direction on local and international feature films, TV shows, and the big budget commercials through the boom time of New Zealand advertising. He was fortunate enough to work with some of New Zealand’s most iconic film directors, Geoff Murphy, Gaylene Preston, Barry Barclay, Vincent Ward, Lee Tamahori and Geoff Dixon to name a few.
“Ablaze is probably one of the best New Zealand films of 2019.”
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He was finalist for Best Director Drama again at the 2019 New Zealand TV Awards for Warner Brother's’ ‘Fresh Eggs’ starring Danielle Cormack and John Rhys-Davies. Then finalist for Best Telefeature in 2020 for his Epic Period Drama ‘Ablaze’. 2021 had Frizzell completing his second Telefeature for Incendo Canada, one in post-production and the other waiting release. 2023 he was lead director on 'Under The Vines' starring Rebecca Gibney and Charles Edwards. 2024 he was sole director on Friends Like Her, directing 6X1 hour episodes. Friends Like Her is finalist for Best Drama at the 2024 NZTV awards.

He moved into directing via music videos, helping pioneer the explosion of the music video industry in New Zealand through the 1990s, winning multiple awards for some of NZ’s top recording artists. After winning best music video two years running at the NZ Film and Television awards, and the Flying Fish Music Video awards,

Frizzell started directing TV commercials, winning accolades both in New Zealand and abroad. Best director at the Axis NZ Advertising Awards and a Bronze Lion at Cannes are among the many highlights. Frizzell has now directed some of New Zealand’s top rating TV dramas.

Also directing two episodes of ‘Tatau’ for BBC3. Having completing a third season of NZ’s highly successful ‘The Brokenwood Mysteries’ he was finalist as Best Director for  Drama at the 2017 New Zealand TV Awards.

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