Annie Frear: Getting to grips with film...

Interview – 2009

Grip Annie Frear trained in television production at the ABC in Australia, then returned to New Zealand and forged a distinguished film career working on everything from anthology series E Tipu E Rea, to movies Desperate Remedies and The Piano. Frear was the grip coordinator for the massive production undertaking that was The Lord of the Rings trilogy.

In this ScreenTalk, Frear talks about:

What it was like working on The Lord of the Rings
The importance of the grip's working relationship with the person behind the camera
How one of her jobs on her first feature Desperate Remedies was as "the skirt lifter"
The joys and frustrations of working with Film School students
The importance of hands on-training

This video was first uploaded on 3 July 2009, 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.

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It was kind of mindboggling. It was everything you could ever have on a smaller shoot, but it was magnified by zillions really.
– Annie Frear on the scale of The Lord Of The Rings trilogy

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