Mark McNeill: On making documentaries, and more...
2015 10m
Mark McNeill runs production company Razor Films. McNeill has a background as a freelance documentary maker, with credits including award-winners Why Am I? The Science of Us and My Father’s War in Italy, and hit documentary www.kiwiflatmates.com. His collaborations with psychologist Nigel Latta include various Politically Incorrect shows, and 2014 series Nigel Latta.
In this ScreenTalk, McNeill talks about:
- Having complete control on an episode of ground-breaking documentary series First Hand
- Regular interruptions by gunfire while filming Mogadishu Madness
- Interviewing catamaran survivor John Glennie for documentary Back from the Dead - The Saga of the Rose-Noëlle
- Finding great stories for TV series Epitaph
- Mad times making "insanely successful" doco www.kiwiflatmates.com
- Working with Nigel Latta on the hit Politically Incorrect shows
- His ambitious project following 1037 people’s lives in Why Am I? The Science of Us
- Basing his career on making shows he really wants to make
Interview Credit
Interview, Camera and Editing – Andrew Whiteside
“That show within three weeks was the most popular show on New Zealand television on any channel, and that was all word of mouth, because there was no promos for that show once it started. ”
Mark McNeill on the success of The Politically Incorrect Parenting Show, which he created with Nigel Latta
Copyright
This video was first uploaded on 15 June 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.
