BillToepfer
- Editor
Although he may not be keen to do so, Bill Toepfer can claim a place in global television history as the man behind the Popstars reality TV juggernaut. Toepfer has enjoyed a long and accomplished career in New Zealand television, editing and producing hundreds of hours of documentaries and TV specials.
Screenography
Biography
Editor Bill Toepfer finds black humour in watching a TV programme’s end credits. "The names are getting smaller and going faster and faster", he says. Toepfer suspects there may come a time they disappear altogether, and the viewer never learns who was “working in that dark room, manipulating them”.
Awards
2015 Asia Apollo Awards
Best Editing - Longform Drama: for Attitude -Living with Parkinson's
2008 Qantas Film and Television Awards
Best Factual Series (shared with Fiona Copland): for The Big Picture
“I love the clarity Bill brings to a concept and often he brings the concept as well! ‘Just tell the story’ is his maxim and it works every time. ”