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George Andrews

Posted on 10 September 2009

Credits: Direction and interview by Clare O’Leary, Camera and Editing by Leo Guerchmann.
 George Andrews

Veteran documentary producer/director George Andrews has been a strong and consistent supporter of public service broadcasting, and was the main creative force behind the iconic early 1980s documentary series Landmarks.

Andrews began his career as a broadcast journalist, later moving to producing and directing.

In this ScreenTalk interview he talks about:

  • the story of his time presenting pioneering current affairs show Gallery
  • producing the ground-breaking documentary series Landmarks in the early 1980s
  • his involvement in the start-up of TV3, and how the network’s direction changed over time, moving it away from the public service style programming that he had hoped for
  • launching his own production company George Andrews Productions, and some of the programmes he has enjoyed making over the years
  • how his 2006 documentary Made in Taiwan – starring Oscar Kightley and Nathan Rarere – came about
  • and finally he tells the story of how Made in Taiwan led to his 2008 documentary Allan Wilson – Evolutionary, about the pioneering and controversial New Zealand-born biologist. The programme was funded by the University of California, Berkeley, where Wilson spent much of his career.

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

 

 

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