The Business of Documentary Filmmaking
22/02/08
Graeme Wilson, Chairman of the New Zealand Screen Council, launched “The Business of Documentary Filmmaking” at a celebration last night for the opening of the Centre for Science Communication. The book is by Claudia Babirat (the first graduate of the University of Otago’s new Master of Science Communication) and her supervisor, Lloyd Spencer Davis.
Graeme established the Natural History Unit of TVNZ (the precursor to NHNZ) in Dunedin in 1977 together with Neil Harraway and Robert Brown. Neil and Robert were at the launch and it is noteworthy that Neil is now the Marketing and Development Manager at NHNZ, which is the University’s partner in the filmmaking component of the MSciComm, while Robert teaches the camera techniques part of the film course. As a further aside: it is also a photo of Robert that adorns the cover of Claudia and Lloyd’s book.
Graeme said how pleased he was with the book and how he hoped it would be adopted as a text by all filmmaking courses in New Zealand: a sentiment that was no doubt music to the ears of Barbara Larson, Managing Director of the book’s publisher, Longacre Press.
Graeme Wilson launches The Business of Documentary Filmmaking . Robert Brown, in blue shirt, looks on (Photo courtesy of Tanya and Longacre Press).
