With over 30 years experience in the television industry, Michael Stedman did just about everything behind the cameras. He began as an editor and moved on to directing and producing for TVNZ. While there he produced shows such as Beauty and the Beast, University Challenge and numerous sport and news programmes. He held senior positions at television networks in New Zealand and Australia, and is currently the Managing Director at Natural History New Zealand.
Michael Stedman died in July 2022. In this 2011 ScreenTalk interview, he talked about:
..editing is the place you learn about structure, you learn about story, you learn about pacing. You learn all of those. That's really for me in many ways the heart of filmmaking.– Michael Stedman on learning about the craft of storytelling, when he started off as an editor
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