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Interview with Sima Urale

31 October 2008

Director Sima Urale discusses being a South Pacific filmmaker with NZ On Screen’s Clare O’Leary: from the immigrant experience in Aotearoa (O Tamaiti, Apron Strings) to dusky maidens in velvet paintings (Velvet Dreams). Samoan-born, New Zealand-raised Urale is Samoa’s first female feature filmmaker.

Find out more about Sima Urale.

This interview is available on YouTube to distribute and share: Part One and Part Two.

Credits: Direction and Interview – Clare O’Leary, Camera and Editing – Leo Guerchmann

 
 

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Fashion designer Liz Mitchell talks Gloss

24 October 2008

Before launching her own clothing label, designer Liz Mitchell began her career creating costumes for stage and screen (including Front Lawn classic Walkshort,and cult movie Angel Mine). In this ScreenTalk interview she turns her attention to costume-heavy 80s soap Gloss.

Liz talks about

  • the “fantastic” experience of working on Gloss over three seasons
  • designing the “over-the-top” costumes for the series, complete with shoulder pads and loud prints
  • how the fashion industry pitched in to help
  • working on forgotten TV show Seekers, starring Jennifer Ward-Lealand and Temuera Morrison
  • participating in the Benson & Hedges Fashion awards – both behind the scenes, and on the awards podium

This video is available on YouTube to embed and distribute via a Creative Commons licence.

 
 

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Interview with Dave Gibson

10 October 2008

Gibson Group Producer Dave Gibson reflects on his long career in the television and film industry, from early days filming student films on a borrowed Bolex camera to making shows for mobile phones and interactive walls for museums.

Find out more about Dave Gibson on NZ On Screen.

This interview is available on YouTube for distribution and sharing: Part One and Part Two.

Credits: Direction and Interview – Clare O’Leary, Camera and Editing – Leo Guerchmann

 
 

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