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Darwin Go, special effects expert

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Darwin Go, special effects expert

Philippines-born Darwin Go works on visual effects for a music video in Wellington in 2015. After qualifying in multimedia arts at university, Go ran a video production company in the Philippines. Impressed by Peter Jackson’s Lord of the rings films, which he first saw in 2007, he moved to New Zealand with his wife. In 2015 he was VFX supervisor at Jackson’s Park Road Post Production facility in Miramar, Wellington. 

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Carl Walrond, Filipinos – Arrivals and settlement, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/46651/darwin-go-special-effects-expert (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Carl Walrond, published 7 September 2015, updated 1 August 2024.