About us

There are four and a half people behind most of StormyDog's Productions:

Annette Lee

Annette is StormyDog's resident producer, organiser, and ideas person. Although she trained as a teacher, she's been a working broadcaster and journalist for more than 30 years, and has worked for commercial and BBC radio and television in the UK; for Newstalk ZB in New Zealand; and was an award winning website editor for Telecom's Xtra site and for the New Zealand Herald. Currently she's the Australian correspondent for TRT World News TV. In what's left of her spare time, she's a triathlete, having competed in Ironman races around the world including the world championships in Kona, Hawaii. 

 

Allan Lee

Allan is Annette's husband, and has worked as a broadcaster and journalist for even more years than she has.  He's been a producer, presenter, and commercial producer in commercial radio; a producer, presenter and programme organiser for BBC radio; a producer and director for BBC TV; a journalist and editor for Newstalk ZB; a presenter and executive producer for Shine TV NZ; and currently works as a senior editor for SBS Audio.  He originally trained as an engineer but that seems a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away!

Scott Kelso

Scott is the director of photography/cameraman who never says 'can't be done'. If there's a way he'll find it, and if it can't be found, he'll make it up.  Scott's worked in the past for Thames TV in London, TV3 in New Zealand, Shine TV NZ, and set up his own production company, Noggin Films.  He is the producer/director of the move One More Win, which follows the Rugby world's minnows, the Cook Islands, as they take on the might of Fiji in a bid to take part in the Rugby World Cup.  Scott and Allan were Shine TV's 'away team' for the programme NZone Focus.

Greg Buckley

Greg is our ideas man and a cameraman who never complains whatever the rest of us ask him to do. He's worked for Disney, Shine TV NZ, and was the other half of Noggin Films. He generates ideas at a rate of knots and is not afraid to do the hard yards to achieve what he wants. During the shoot for "Going Long Going Hard" he was the cameraman who ended up fixing all the athlete cams in the pouring rain, and wrangling terabytes of data.  Of the four of us, Greg is the sensible one who keeps the rest of us under control. 

Stormy Dog

And the half a person was Stormy, our much-loved springer spaniel after whom the company is named. He sadly passed over the rainbow bridge to doggy heaven at the grand old age of 15. That is, apparently, the equivalent of 83 in human years.