Kerry Warkia: Making an impact in online series...

Interview – 2015

Kerry Warkia began her career as an actor, before making a name for herself as a successful producer. She is the producer of Auckland Daze, Flat3, and Nia’s Extra Ordinary Life. Warkia and her husband Kiel McNaughton run production company Brown Sugar Apple Grunt, and are two of the key creative forces behind Māori Television hit Find Me a Māori Bride and movies Waru and The Legend of Baron To'a.

In this ScreenTalk, Warkia talks about:

How the challenges of finding acting work led to her successful producing career
Being given a chance to contribute to the story while acting in 2005 horror movie Hidden
The "terrifying and wonderful" experience of producing Auckland Daze
How complaining about a character got her an acting role in the show
Making Halloween special End of Daze in 15 days
Being proud of having three strong Kiwi Asian women in online comedy Flat3
Deliberately not providing all the answers on children's web series Nia’s Extra Ordinary Life
Wanting to play with the reality genre with hit comedy series Find Me a Māori Bride
The show's dream cast
Seeing feature films and comedy at the heart of her future endeavours

This video was first uploaded on 31 August 2015, and is available under this Creative Commons licence. This licence is limited to use of ScreenTalk interview footage only and does not apply to any video content and photographs from films, television, music videos, web series and commercials used in the interview.

Interview, Camera and Editing – Andrew Whiteside

The audience that loves it is loyal . . . we're not trying to please anyone else. We're trying to make something that we would watch, that we love, and that we know there are people out there who love it too. And I think the beauty of it being on the web is that we're the king of the content, and there's authenticity in that.
– Kerry Warkia on the freedom of making web series Flat3

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