George Andrews
Posted on 10 September 2009
Credits: Direction and interview by Clare O’Leary, Camera and Editing by Leo Guerchmann.
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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