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Brendan Donovan: On hopes and dreams...
Interview – 2011
Award-winning director Brendan Donovan cast Six Million Dollar Man Lee Majors in his debut short film. It was a success. After eight years working in New York, the Howick native returned to New Zealand, where he has won awards for his work on The Insiders Guide to Love and Aftershock.
In this ScreenTalk, Donovan talks about:
- How he cast American actor Lee Majors in his debut short film Here
- Details from the making of short film Grasp
- His initial reaction to scripts for The Insiders Guide to Happiness
- How The Insiders Guide to Happiness footage was captured and techniques used to achieve visual effects
- Memorable insights into working with Australian actor Bryan Brown on the Aussie TV series Two Twisted
- Behind-the-scenes details of special effects used in tele-feature Aftershock
- How 2010 movie The Hopes and Dreams of Gazza Snell was created
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was first uploaded on 24 January 2011, and
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Interview, Camera and Editing – James Coleman
What I tried to capture in the film was this sense that even though this is a small place, it's a massive place for the people within it, and massive things are happening within it. . . . just like we sort of did with Insiders Guide, extraordinary things are happening to ordinary people.– Brendan Donovan on his 2010 movie The Hopes and Dreams of Gazza Snell
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