Peter Wells (director)
Peter Northe Wells  (8 February 1950 – 18 February 2019) was a New Zealand writer and filmmaker and historian. He was born in Auckland. His best known work was Desperate Remedies (1993). Wells' 2003 novel Iridescence was a runner up in the fiction category of the Montana New Zealand Book Awards and a finalist in the 2005 Tasmania Pacific Fiction Prize.