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Jason Stutter – the Comedy of Murder

6 September 2010

Jason Stutter – director of Ronald Hugh Morrieson adaptation Predicament – has a talent for going for the jugular, yet doing it in style. In Stutter’s movies, the camera plunges headfirst into haunted hospitals, dodgy smalltown dealings, and fight scenes with Pacific Island Ninjas whose parents were unexpectedly half-gobbled by fish.

In this ScreenTalk interview, Stutter talks about

  • why he makes films
  • his many projects featuring Flight of the Conchords’ Jemaine Clement
  • falling in love with the dialogue in Ronald Hugh Morrieson’s novel Predicament
  • the lessons that can be learnt from Morrieson’s career
  • the bravery of comedians, and why he loves giving them acting roles in his movies
  • the genesis of Tongan Ninja, Stutter’s no-budget, three years in the making feature debut
  • the unusual way haunted hospital tale Diagnosis: Death was funded
  • the importance of staying loyal to the original text

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

 
 

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NZOA Music Manager Brendan Smyth talks Kiwi music

31 July 2009

Brendan Smyth is charged with getting more New Zealand music on the airwaves. As NZ Music Manager at NZ On Air, he leads a team that funds and promotes Kiwi music and music videos.

In this ScreenTalk interview, Smyth talks about:

  • the challenges of getting Kiwi music on radio during the 90s
  • what funding agency NZ On Air does, and how it chooses which music videos to fund
  • how English video makers have been impressed by the strong ideas shown in Kiwi videos, including one made for a song by Goodshirt
  • how the music video for the hit Bathe in the River (from Toa Fraser movie No. 2) helped win over the enthusiasm of radio, which initially proved resistant
  • how the music video has found a new life on the internet

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

Interview and direction by Ian Pryor. Camera and editing by Alex Backhouse.

 
 

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