School is the killer of many great creative minds, it’s simply common sense and does not need academic’s to tell us that. notice I didn’t say education. I enjoyed and continue to enjoy, a long creative career that had nothing to do with my time in school apart from the fact that school bullied and confused me. Luckily I left NZ. That is when my creativity flourished. This is a subject that needs totally rethinking, from the bottom upnot, as is the case at present, from the top down. The best answers always come from the shop floor, the most honest, the simplest answers that is. Academia adds a complexity we do not need. I say, that to create a viable film and television industry, close all the Film and Television Schools and bring back apprentice training and mentoring. Those who are doing then get to pass on practical, user friendly training. Education comes after we leave school. As for TV in NZ, what an amazing waste of resources and tax payer funding. If I make a film in NZ it needs to be given an airing, no matter how good or bad. I know many film makers who self fund who are rejected because they don’t play the ‘Game’. Whatever happened to Peter Jackson’s review of the Film Commission? has it been buried, wasn’t it what the Govt boffins wanted to hear? We need to grow up as a nation, we need honesty, transparency and we need to return to simple, commonsensical values. Just my thoughts on a wet Friday, somewhere north of wellie!
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About kiwicafe
1955 . . . as a teenager in New Zealand, according to friends :) I talked incessantly of photography & philosophy, in my early twenties I hung out with photographers as I began my film editing career in Australia, I bought a variety of cameras, a faux snapper I guess, more interested in film editing, travel and back deck philosophy through which my curiosity took me from Sydney to New York & Venice Beach. For 45 years have I enjoyed working with some truly great creative directors, writers, art directors, film directors, photographers, producers et al . . . hopefully I learned a thing or two! I did win a bunch of awards and went from Editor of the Year in Australia to one of the top commercial film editors in America, not bad for a skinny kid from New Zealand.
2003 . . . newly divorced, I took the pledge, became 'one of many', an American Citizen & went Searching for Zane Grey's America. For two glorious years I filmed, photographed & blogged my way around the American West.
2006 . . . returned to Aotearoa NZ, restoring a small vineyard and continuing to film, photograph and write. I exhibited & sold some images, harvested a great vintage of both red & white, sold the vineyard, edited a movie or two & now, 2013, I have discovered a whole new journey for myself, via Lou Gehrig's Disease, aka ALS/MND. I continue to practice my love for film | fotography | philosophy as best I can, I am in a good place, there are no mistakes in life!
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