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Cannes is the town in France where Bergman meets bikinis, and the art of filmmaking meets the art of the deal. In 1975, a group of expat Kiwis managed to score interviews with some of the festival's emerging talents, indulging their own cinematic dreams in the process. Werner Herzog waxes lyrical on the trials and scars of directing; a boyish Steven Spielberg recalls the challenges of framing shots during Jaws; Martin Scorsese and Dustin Hoffman talk a gallon. Six years later interviewer Michael Heath's debut script The Scarecrow would be invited to Cannes.
I wanted to experience the Cannes Film Festival, so we decided the best way to get there was to make a film. Crew and equipment would be supplied by a producer at Thames television. NZ TV would supply post production costs, and interviewer ...
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Television, 1972 (Full Length)
Also directed by Tony Williams
NZ ON SCREEN 2013
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Costa Botes
Posted at 05.40PM - 08.04.2011
I saw this when it first played on NZ TV around 1976. It ruined my life because it helped me make up my mind to try and become a film maker. Now it helps me remember why I thought that was a good idea.