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 Artists Prepare: Sam Hunt and Gary McCormick
 Catching the Tide - Sam Hunt's Cook Strait
 Heartland, Port Chalmers
 The Roaring 40's Tour
 Mercury Lane - Series Two, Episode Two

Synopsis

Sam Hunt is NZ’s best known and most visible contemporary poet; and, in an archive excerpt in this feature length documentary, Ginette McDonald calls him “New Zealand’s most impersonated man”. Director Tim Rose, who has known Hunt since he was a boy, decided too little was known about him beyond his flamboyant, public persona. The result is this doco which Rose spent four years making — augmenting a wealth of archive material with interviews with Hunt, and those who know him best, and new footage of him reading his work and performing with David Kilgour.

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 Tim Rose

Tim Rose
Camera, Director, Producer

 Jim Scott

Jim Scott
Sound, Producer

 Colin Hogg

Colin Hogg
Subject

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 Catching the Tide - Sam Hunt's Cook Strait

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Sam Hunt and Gary McCormick on tour in 1980

 The Roaring 40's Tour

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More tour stories from Sam Hunt and Gary McCormick

 Heartland, Port Chalmers

Heartland, Port Chalmers

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Gary McCormick in a presenter's role

 Mercury Lane - Series Two, Episode Two

Mercury Lane - Series Two, Episode Two

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Sam Hunt interviews Alastair Te Ariki Campbell on this arts show

Quotes

I have known Sam Hunt since I was a young boy, he used to take me out fishing on the Pauatahanui inlet, and he is both a friend and confidante. Each time with Sam is special, commonly Sam the raconteur would recount a story and this would develop into a poem. I had a burning desire to be able to share this experience, to capture some of these moments on film for others to share. 

– Tim Rose (Director)

If there hadn’t been a Sam Hunt where I grew up, I don’t think I would have found my way to the things I ended up doing. He was the living example of someone I wanted to be. 

– Gary McCormick

Look with Sam you never know which comes first — the reality or the attitude to that reality. 

– Colin Hogg