---
name: "Curtis Vowell"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/curtis-vowell"
fi1m_id: "curtis-vowell"
imdb_id: "nm3555793"
tmdb_id: 1193049
wikidata_id: "Q100703722"
roles: ["Director"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-01T00:09:41.499628+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Curtis Vowell

## Identity

Curtis Vowell

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/curtis-vowell
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** curtis-vowell
- **IMDb ID:** nm3555793
- **TMDB ID:** 1193049
- **Wikidata ID:** Q100703722
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q100703722, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3555793/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1193049

Director. Born in Cook Islands.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q100703722, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3555793/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1193049

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*The Outlaws*](https://film.one/tv/the-outlaws.md) (67)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Curtis Vowell is a Cook Island Māori director who has worked in the New Zealand film and television industry. He trained at Toi Whakaari drama school in Wellington and began his career as an actor before moving into directing.

His debut feature *Fantail* (2013) was nominated for eight New Zealand Film Awards, including Best Director and Best Film, and screened at festivals including Rotterdam and Melbourne, where it won a People’s Choice award. His subsequent features include *Baby Done* (2020) and *Seize Them!* (2024).

Vowell has directed numerous episodes of the New Zealand soap *Shortland Street* (2020–) and episodes of the BBC/Amazon series *The Outlaws* (2024). His film *Workmates* (2025) was written by and stars his partner Sophie Henderson.

*Sources: imdb.com, theagency.co.uk, nzonscreen.com, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Outlaws* (2021), Fi1m 67, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-outlaws.md)

## Complete filmography (13)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Workmates* (2025), Director
- *Seize Them!* (2024), Director
- *The Outlaws* (2021), series, Director — Fi1m 67, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-outlaws.md)
- *Baby Done* (2020), Director
- *Human Traces* (2017), Thanks
- *Grow Joe* (2017), Director
- *Krampus* (2015), as DHL Man
- *Fantail* (2013), Director
- *The Almighty Johnsons* (2011), series, as Bevan
- *Spies and Lies* (2010), as Police Officer 1
- *The Cult* (2009), series, as Marcus
- *Legend of the Seeker* (2008), series, as Mattis
- *The Jaquie Brown Diaries* (2008), series, as Cameraman

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