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Bill Gavin

Producer

Kiwi Bill Gavin began his film career in the United Kingdom. After arranging finance for everything from The Killing Fields to Sid and Nancy, he returned home in the 1990s to produce a number of features, including What Becomes of the Broken Hearted? and Jubilee. During two years as Head of Feature Films at South Pacific Pictures, he helped develop and finance 2002 hit Whale Rider. Gavin passed away on 26 May 2020.

Gavin was in the top echelon of the world's film salesmen. Author Terry Ilott, in Ilott and Jake Eberts's 1990 book My Indecision is Final