Candida is a highly accomplished, award-winning storyteller with a strong track record for delivering quality creative content. Experienced at undertaking challenging overseas shoots, she's a resourceful showrunner, director, post producer, reporter, writer and Read More

Candida is a highly accomplished, award-winning storyteller with a strong track record for delivering quality creative content. Experienced at undertaking challenging overseas shoots, she's a resourceful showrunner, director, post producer, reporter, writer and voice over artist. She is good at finding and building relationships with talent and presenters. Her work spans many genres including long form documentary, true crime, history, factual and reality, with credits on Netflix, National Geographic, Discovery, Love Nature, Apple TV, Canal +, BBC TV & Radio, Channel 4, ITV, TVNZ, Prime, Neon & The Guardian.


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"Candida has the all too rare ability to create content at both ends of the spectrum. She moves easily from high-quality public service programming to broad appeal commercial shows because she understands narrative and gets that human emotion and heart are the core of great storytelling."SUE WOODFIELD — CHIEF CONTENT OFFICER NHNZ

Candida trained at the BBC as an investigative journalist and a documentary director and producer. She's a filmmaker with a flair for character-driven storytelling. She has worked around the world specialising in a wide range of long form documentary projects filmed in Australasia, New Zealand, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, The Philippines, Borneo and Laos.

Her adventures include spending ten weeks in the jungle in Borneo directing a series about orangutans and two months in Laos producing and directing a two part history documentary series for Nat Geo. Many of her projects have had global success. She produced and directed award winning series Down for Love which hit number 4 on UK Netflix’s most watched shows. She’s also successfully developed several of her own projects, including New Zealand’s first four-part true crime documentary series commissioned by Canal + and Discovery. This was nominated for four awards; best factual documentary series, best director, best musical score and best editor. Her investigative documentary series Reality Trip about sweatshops in Bangladesh, Philippines and Sri Lanka was selected for the Prague Film Festival. Grand Designs NZ was nominated as best factual show while she was series producing it. She can confidently navigate complicated narratives and manage shoot and edit teams at home and abroad.

AWARDS★ 2024 Finalist - NZTV Awards for Best Documentary Series, Best Documentary Director, Best Editing & Best Original Musical Score for Black Coast Vanishings (Director, Producer and Creator)★ 2023 Winner - NZTV Awards — Best New Reality Series — Down for Love (Director)★ 2019 Finalist - NZTV Awards — Best Factual Series — Grand Designs NZ (Series Producer)★ 2014 Finalist - Prague Film Festival — Best Documentary Series — Reality Trip (Series Producer)★ 2009 Finalist - The Guardian Newspaper International Development Competition (Investigative Journalist)★ 2005 Finalist Media Peace Award for TVNZ Best Documentary (Director/Producer)

EMPLOYMENT
Showrunner, Director & Writer "What Happened to Sex?" - TVNZ Nov 2025-July 2026. Creator of documentary about the normalisation of rough sex & the effect exposure to explicit sexual content online has had on a generation of young people. The show had a special parliamentary screening attended by the prime minister an enabled a chnage int he law to bring in greater safety for young people. 

Showrunner, Director & Writer License To Drive — Sky TV 2024-2025 Series 1& 2 6-part documentary series about people with disabilities learning to drive.

Showrunner, Director & Post Producer  "Lost Treasures of Angkor" — National Geographic - 2023-2024 Two-part history documentary series filmed in Laos about the biggest haul of Khmer treasure dating back to 500 BC found in Laos.

Field Director and Post Producer "Orangutan Jungle School "— Love Nature - 2023 6-part series on orphaned orangutans and their rehabilitation in Borneo. Filmed over 10 weeks in Borneo.

Showrunner, Director, Post Producer & Creator "Black Coast Vanishing" — Discovery & Canal + - July 2021 - Feb 2023 Four-part true crime documentary series looking at the mysterious disappearance of six people in New Zealand's most iconic surf town.

Showrunner, Director & Narrator "Down for Love" — Netflix & TVNZ - Feb - Nov 2021 5-part documentary series about people living with Down's Syndrome finding love. 4th most watched show on UK Netflix.  Award "Best Reality Series" 2022.Series

Showrunner & self shooting "Grand Designs NZ" — Discovery - Sept 2017 - Nov 2020 NZTV Awards "Best Factual Series" finalist 2019.

Investigative Journalist, Producer and Reporter "Outlook" — BBC World Service - March - September 2017 10-part series featuring stories from Bhutan & Bangladesh.

Producer  & Director "Heritage Rescue" — Choice TV - 2016-2017 7-part series museum makeover show charting local history (Series 1 & 2).Director/Producer Making New Zealand : Prime TV /Neon Nov 2016One-hour documentary on the history of aviation. Post

Head of Post Production  "The Bachelor "— TV3 - Jan - May 2015 17-part reality series. Ran a team of 6 post producers and 10 editors.Producer/Reporter Outlook - BBC World Service - March-June 201415-part documentary feature series on Bangladesh and the Philippines

Producer & Presenter BBC World Service - Feb – March 2014 "10 Years On" - 2 part documentary series exploring ten-year anniversary of the 2004 tsunami in Banda Aceh.

Producer, Field & Post Director Reality Trip — TV3 - May 2013 - Jan 2014 8-part documentary series shot in Bangladesh, Philippines & Sri Lanka.

Producer/Director Inspectors :  August 2012 May 2013TVNZ 10-part reality series TVNZ DirectorTarget  : TV3  (2011-2013)weekly consumer show   

Story Producer & reporter. Outlook : BBC World service  2009-2011“Extraordinary personal stories from around the world”. Based in London.Senior

Director/Producer Crime Watch, Health Watch, Watchdog, Food and Drink — BBC TV 1999-2004Senior Investigative Reporter You and Yours — BBC Radio 4 - 1994-2000 Read Less