Lippy Pictures: Dramatising reality…

Interview – 2013

Lippy Pictures is an Auckland-based production company run by award-winning writer/producers Paula Boock and Donna Malane. Both had accomplished screen careers before partnering up as Lippy Pictures, and their success has continued since forming the company. They have made a name for themselves creating dramas and documentaries based on real people and events.

In this ScreenTalk interviewe, Boock and Malane talk about:

How the right timing led to the creation of their production company
Wanting to tackle a gross injustice in Until Proven Innocent
The daunting task of filming the rape scene for the film
Being emotionally attached to Tangiwai: A Love Story
How Pirates of the Airwaves turned into one long romp
Being appalled by the story behind Field Punishment No.1
The challenge of re-creating World War I during an Auckland summer

This video was first uploaded on 11 November 2013, 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

Paula started to tell me the story . . . she told the story so passionately that I got — even see now, I've got goosebumps coming up on my arms. It's the goosebump moment, and we've been in that place a couple of times . . . and we know then, it's gotta be good.
– Donna Malane on Paula Boock telling her about the events that fed into their TV movie Tangiwai: A Love Story

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