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Brian Kassler

Producer, Grip

Brian Kassler started his career building sets for theatre and film, then worked as a camera grip on a host of New Zealand features. In the mid 80s he started supplying film equipment to local crews, before launching successful production company Flying Fish with Lee Tamahori. Today he fronts Showtools, a film production website. 

I saw it as something new and different...something like going to the moon, no one’s done it before and I wonder what it’s like. Brian Kassler, on starting his company Showtools