ScreenTalk

Grip Annie Frear trained in television production at the ABC in Australia, and then returned to New Zealand and forged a distinguished film career working on such titles as E Tipu E Rea, Desperate Remedies, The Piano, Hinekaro Goes on a Picnic and Blows up Another Obelisk, and Peach.

Frear was the Grip Co-ordinator for the massive production undertaking that was the Lord of the Rings trilogy. She begins her ScreenTalk interview by describing what it was like working on Lord of the Rings.

She also talks about:

• The importance of the grip’s working relationship with the Director of Photography
• Her first feature film Desperate Remedies and her job as “the skirt lifter”
• The satisfaction of working with Film School students
• The importance of “hands on” training

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

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