Philip Smith (producer)

He is the founder and owner of Australasian media company, Great Southern Television,[1] with offices in Sydney, Auckland and Queenstown.

In 2020, he co-created the NZ drama, One Lane Bridge, which screens in 28 countries, including AMC in the USA and Arte in France.

He left to join the Financial Times where he worked as a foreign correspondent from war-plagued nations including Burundi and Rwanda .

[citation needed] He was the presenter of the Wednesday Wire at Auckland's student radio station BFM for three years.

[citation needed] He won a New York Film and Television Award for his reporting on the Vulcan volcano eruption in Papua New Guinea.