Dame Julie Christie: The West Coaster who reshaped New Zealand television

Unfiltered

English - March 21, 2019 20:37 - 58 minutes - 53.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 1 rating
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Dame Julie Christie is the Founder and former CEO of international television company Touchdown Productions, acquired by Dutch media company Eyeworks in 2006, and then later sold to Warner Bros.

Amongst New Zealand's most well-known media industry veterans, Dame Julie is the Producer behind numerous critically acclaimed reality or unscripted shows, including Rachel Hunter: Cover Girl, The is Your Life, Changing Rooms, My House My Castle, Whose House Is It Anyway, DIY Rescue, Trading Places, Treasure Island, and Game of Two Halves.

Starting off initially in journalism, Dame Julie moved into television in the late 1980's and started Touchdown Productions in 1991. Within a few years, she had grown the business into New Zealand's largest producer of entertainment TV, with a thriving business in exporting program formats.

Dame Julie has served on the Boards of New Zealand Trade & Enterprise, Rugby World Cup 2011 and Mediaworks. She is currently on the Board of Tourism West Coast, Trustee of Development West Coast, is on the Steering Group for New Zealand's participation at the World Expo 2020 in Dubai, as well as chairing the Board of the Ngāi Tahu Tourism-New Zealand rugby joint venture, The All Blacks Experience. She also now works as a business strategy, media and performance consultant.

In 2007, she was made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, and was the inaugural New Zealand recipient of the prestigious global Veuve Clicquot Award, which celebrates female entrepreneurship. She received the Dame Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the Queen's Birthday Honours in 2017.

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