His short film Jumbo was recognised at the 1999 NZ Film Awards and has screened at festivals and on television here and overseas. His television work has included contributions to Greenstone’s Mercury Lane and Sons for the Road, a documentary that played on TVNZ’s Artsville in 2006. The feature length documentary Dark Horse won Best Feature Documentary at the inaugural DOCNZ International documentary festival in 2005. Another feature length documentary Ko Whanganui te Awa screened on Maori Television in 2006. In 2004 he was recipient of the Rosalynn Carter Mental Health Journalism fellowship and through this fellowship completed the documentary Awa Hikoi which screened on TVNZ in 2005.