ScreenTalk » maori television http://screentalk.nzonscreen.com TV and Film Industry Interviews Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:16:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 Carol Hirschfeld on Television http://screentalk.nzonscreen.com/interviews/carol-hirschfeld-on-television http://screentalk.nzonscreen.com/interviews/carol-hirschfeld-on-television#comments Mon, 17 Oct 2011 00:36:35 +0000 Screen Talker http://screentalk.nzonscreen.com/?p=1664 Carol Hirschfeld attributes some of her career path to her father, “a big newspaper man”. As a sub-editor at Eyewitness News in the late 80s, Hirschfeld was convinced she preferred to work behind the camera, with no interest at all in appearing in front of it. Since then, Hirschfeld has reported for and hosted many prime-time television productions including Fair Go, Crimewatch, 3 News and Campbell Live, as well as producing and directing hours of New Zealand television such as Frontline’s Winebox enquiry, Home Truths, A Queen’s Tour and Campbell Live. More recently Hirschfeld has worked as Head of Programing at Maori Television, and is currently General Manager of Production.

In this ScreenTalk interview, Hirschfeld talks about:

  • Starting out in TV news and current affairs
  • Working with Ian Johnstone on Crimewatch
  • The intricacies and challenges of working on the Winebox investigation at Frontline
  • The beginnings of her role on 3 News, and the resignation of John Hawkesby
  • Producing Home Truths
  • Her approach to producing TV series A Queen’s Tour and how she would do it differently in hindsight
  • The joys of appearing as herself in bro’Town
  • Her reasons for leaving TV3
  • Her aspirations for the Maori Television Service

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

]]> http://screentalk.nzonscreen.com/interviews/carol-hirschfeld-on-television/feed 0 Joanna Paul – Portrait of an Over Achiever http://screentalk.nzonscreen.com/interviews/joanna-paul-portrait-of-an-over-achiever http://screentalk.nzonscreen.com/interviews/joanna-paul-portrait-of-an-over-achiever#comments Mon, 18 Jul 2011 00:49:11 +0000 Screen Talker http://screentalk.nzonscreen.com/?p=1478 Joanna Paul‘s screen career has seen her both in front of and behind the camera, and undertaking some of the most challenging Māori screen projects in New Zealand, including Aroha, the country’s first TV series in Te Reo, and the launch of Maori Television.

In this ScreenTalk interview, Paul reveals:

  • The challenges she faced starting out in broadcasting
  • Her thoughts on some of the many TV projects she has been involved in, including acting on Loose Enz drama The Protestors.
  • Details of her early film career in Wellington
  • Her insights into the early days of news and current affairs at TV3
  • Her experiences fronting the first Nightline on TV3 and why the format was successful
  • Thoughts on news and current affairs television today
  • Insights into the establishment of Maori Television
  • The state of Māori broadcasting today

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

]]> http://screentalk.nzonscreen.com/interviews/joanna-paul-portrait-of-an-over-achiever/feed 0 In the Bag with Pio Terei http://screentalk.nzonscreen.com/interviews/in-the-bag-with-pio-terei http://screentalk.nzonscreen.com/interviews/in-the-bag-with-pio-terei#comments Sun, 13 Feb 2011 23:09:08 +0000 Screen Talker http://screentalk.nzonscreen.com/?p=1075 Pio Terei is an actor, singer and comedian, who has been involved in a wide range of TV shows such as: Issues, Pete and Pio, Big Night In and Tangaroa with Pio. He also had a small role in the feature film No. 2 and a dramatic role in Mataku. In 2009 Terei began hosting iconic quiz show It’s in the Bag for Maori Television.

In this ScreenTalk interview, Terei talks about:

  • Being a little scared joining legends of comedy on Issues
  • Adopting an arrogant persona to impersonate Winston Peters on the show
  • Working with mentor Peter Rowley on the comedy show Pete and Pio
  • How ‘taking the piss’ out of Pākehā in The Life and Times of Te Tutu raised hackles
  • Being inspired by his co-stars in the feature film No. 2
  • Loving the unique sense of New Zealand in game show It’s in the Bag
  • How winning a booby prize meant so much to one contestant

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

]]> http://screentalk.nzonscreen.com/interviews/in-the-bag-with-pio-terei/feed 0 Claudette Hauiti on producing in Front of the Box http://screentalk.nzonscreen.com/interviews/claudette-hauiti-on-producing-in-front-of-the-box http://screentalk.nzonscreen.com/interviews/claudette-hauiti-on-producing-in-front-of-the-box#comments Mon, 02 Aug 2010 21:17:19 +0000 Screen Talker http://screentalk.nzonscreen.com/?p=892 TV producer Claudette Hauiti (Ngāti Porou, Ngāpuhi) began her career as a sports journalist on radio before moving to television news. In later years, her production company Front of the Box has made ground-breaking Māori series such as Eye to Eye and Takatāpui, as well as the award-winning documentaries Gang Girls and Children of the Revolution.

In this ScreenTalk interview, Hauiti talks about:

  • How some gang connections led to the documentary Gang Girls and how it validated the lives of the women interviewed
  • How strong support from Maori TV for Takatāpui helped get the series on air despite some misgivings from the Māori community
  • The cancellation of Eye to Eye
  • How she likes Front of the Box shows to challenge audiences
  • How Maori Television has created a huge mind shift in attitudes to Māori and assisted in making New Zealand more multi-cultural
  • The challenges of being an independent television producer in New Zealand

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

]]> http://screentalk.nzonscreen.com/interviews/claudette-hauiti-on-producing-in-front-of-the-box/feed 1 Larry Parr talks te Tainuia Kid and te reo http://screentalk.nzonscreen.com/interviews/larry-parr http://screentalk.nzonscreen.com/interviews/larry-parr#comments Thu, 05 Feb 2009 02:56:47 +0000 Screen Talker http://screentalk.nzonscreen.com/?p=59 Producer Larry Parr talks to NZ On Screen about the business and art of film and TV production. Parr discusses:

  • His unconventional path into the industry: “I wasn’t like Geoff [Murphy], Ian [Mune], or Bruno [Lawrence] …” Parr had started out as a lawyer in a bank.
  • Early days working to raise the money for, and market, the iconic Roger Donaldson-directed films, Smash Palace and Sleeping Dogs.
  • Raising the finance for a slew of eighties features (Bridge to Nowhere, Starlight Hotel, Queen City Rocker, Constance, Came a Hot Friday, Pallet on the Floor).
  • The landmark 1989 Māori drama series E Tipu E Rea which he produced and which launched the careers of a remarkable number of Māori filmmakers (Lee Tamahori, Riwia Brown, Rawiri Paratene, Anzac Wallace, Wi Kuki Kaa and more). “The series was all Māori crew and cast except for three DoPs”.
  • His time as head of production at TVNZ’s Avalon studios.
  • The failure of Kahukura Productions and the “time in purgatory” he served between its collapse, and joining Māori Television in 2005 as Head of Programming.
  • Finishing his directorial debut Fracture and helping Taika Waititi complete his Oscar-nominated short film Two Cars, One Night.
  • The achievement of Māori Televsion: “creating a receptive audience [for Māori stories].”
  • His new role at Te Māngai Pāho and his vision for a bi-lingual Aotearoa and the promotion of te reo on our screens: “just imagine what sort of country New Zealand would be if everybody had grown up since 1840 speaking both languages … we’d be unstoppable!”

Through the ups and downs of a colourful career in independent and network filmmaking Parr reflects on his most satisfying moments, ultimately settling on the 2006 ANZAC Day broadcast on Māori Television, which changed the “social and political landscape and ensured MTS’s place in the broadcasting landscape.”

This interview is available to download or distribute on YouTube.

Also see: Maori Television and Te Māngai Pāho

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

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