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Grahame McLean: from props to producing...

Interview – 2010

Producer Grahame McLean was a busy man during the rebirth of New Zealand feature films: his CV includes gigs as a props manager, assistant director, production manager, writer, director and producer. McLean's first job in the screen industry was on 1974 indie TV drama The Games Affair. He went on to produce Sons for the Return Home and A Woman of Good Character/It's Lizzie to Those Close, and brought beloved character Worzel Gummidge to New Zealand.

This ScreenTalk interview was conducted by McLean's industry colleague John Barnett. McLean talks about:

This video was first uploaded on 31 August 2010, 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 - John Barnett. Camera - Pat Cox. Editing - Alex Backhouse
Somebody once asked me why I worked in the film industry and I said it's because I couldn’t think of anything harder to do.
– Grahame McLean on what drew him to working in the film industry