Chas Toogood: Documenting some of life's great moments...

Interview – 2015

Chas Toogood is an award-winning documentary maker whose work has showcased the strength and determination of the human spirit. He began his career as a news journalist, then moved on to a series of high profile documentaries — including the Legends of the All Blacks series, Mark Inglis documentary No Mean Feat, and Sir Peter Blake – The Boy From Bayswater. Toogood went on to direct episodes of Wild Coasts with Craig Potton and Coast New Zealand.

In this ScreenTalk interview, Toogood talks about:

Working simultaneously for both radio and TV at NZBC News
Being away from home a lot as a reporter on Top Half
Having the chance to work with a legendary broadcaster on Holmes
Feeling totally responsible for the documentary Twelve Days of Glory
How the Paralympics became a major sporting event
Being struck by Margaret Thatcher’s strength of presence when directing Paul Holmes’ interview with her
An emotional visit to a war grave while filming Legends of the All Blacks
How the award-winning doco No Mean Feat was initially rejected
Finding an alternative way to tell the story behind Sir Peter Blake - The Boy From Bayswater
Why he doesn’t really understand today’s TV audience

This video was first uploaded on 7 April 2015, and is available under this Creative Commons licence. This licence is limited to use of ScreenTalk interview footage only and does not apply to any video content and photographs from films, television, music videos, web series and commercials used in the interview.

Interview, Camera and Editing – Andrew Whiteside

..we were out there doing stories about New Zealanders, New Zealanders' lives and what they were doing. And people loved seeing themselves, and their neighbours and everything on television. So it was really popular.
– Chas Toogood on reporting for northern news show Top Half

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