A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Wellington, New Zealand
John Banas is a New Zealander writer, director, actor and teacher who has, for over forty years, worked extensively in New Zealand, Australia and the United States. He began as an actor, writer and director in Kiwi theatre during the 1970s, Banas increasingly focused on dramatic writing for television from the 80s on. After relocating to Australia, he established himself as a prolific TV screenwriter with a string of iconic shows, including Blue Heelers and City Homicide. His many New Zealand scripts include Bombshell and award-winning telemovies Siege and How to Murder Your Wife.
Director:
2015 Venus and Mars
Screenplay:
2015 Venus and Mars
2016 Bombshell
Script Editor:
2015 Venus and Mars
2016 Bombshell
2024 The Lost Boys of Dilworth
Writer:
2012 Safe House
2012 Siege
2015 How to Murder Your Wife
2015 The Monster of Mangatiti
2015 Venus and Mars
2016 Bombshell
2016 Pike River
2017 Resolve
2018 In a Flash
2019 Ablaze
2020 Toke
2021 Love Knots
2022 Destination Love
2023 The Red Shoes: Next Step
2024 The Lost Boys of Dilworth
Co-Producer:
1989 E Street
Creator:
1989 E Street
2007 City Homicide
2019 Straight Forward
Director:
1988 Emma: Queen of the South Seas
1989 E Street
1995 Mirror, Mirror
1997 Mirror, Mirror II
2007 City Homicide
2019 Straight Forward
Script Editor:
1988 Emma: Queen of the South Seas
1989 E Street
1995 Mirror, Mirror
1997 Mirror, Mirror II
2007 City Homicide
2019 Straight Forward
Story:
1988 Emma: Queen of the South Seas
1989 E Street
1995 Mirror, Mirror
1997 Mirror, Mirror II
2007 City Homicide
2019 Straight Forward
Writer:
1988 Emma: Queen of the South Seas
1989 E Street
1995 Mirror, Mirror
1996 Water Rats
1997 Mirror, Mirror II
2005 headLand
2007 City Homicide
2011 Underbelly NZ: Land of the Long Green Cloud
2012 Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries
2012 Tricky Business
2019 Straight Forward
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.