Matthew Metcalfe: scaling the heights of filmmaking…

Interview – 2013

Prolific producer Matthew Metcalfe began his career making short films and music videos. He moved into feature films with Nemesis Game, The Ferryman, and Dean Spanley. Metcalfe has also made documentaries, including Vietnam – My Father's War and Soldiers of Fortune.

In this ScreenTalk interview, Metcalfe talks about:

Working with director Jesse Warn on his first film 9 Across
Going cap in hand to get the two stars of the film on board
The brutal nature of making first feature Nemesis Game
How Vietnam – My Father’s War was a very personal story
Setting out to make the "perfect" film with Dean Spanley
Being transfixed by the story of Love Birds
Winning the rights to use music by band Queen
Convincing people that Giselle, a film about ballet, would be successful
Respecting the memory of Sir Edmund Hillary in Beyond the Edge

This video was first uploaded on 9 September 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

...I looked at Dean Spanley and I saw a film that I wanted to make perfect. I wanted to take every lesson that I had received up until that point, I wanted to encapsulate them in one movie, and I wanted to make it perfect. I knew that I wanted to knock it out of the park. So I reached out to [director] Toa Fraser who had just done such an amazing job with No. 2. He was on board straight away.
– Matthew Metcalfe on the aspirations he had as one of the producers on 2008 film Dean Spanley

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