Michele Fantl: on bringing her directors' visions to life...
2016 11m
Michele Fantl has produced numerous acclaimed telemovies, features and documentaries. Along the way, she has worked extensively with writer/directors Peter Wells, Stewart Main, Garth Maxwell and Fiona Samuel. Her screen credits include movies When Love Comes and Vermilion, and award-winning Katherine Mansfield TV movie Bliss.
In this ScreenTalk, Fantl talks about:
- The difficult yet rewarding process of producing short film Twilight of the Gods
- Filming on Rangitoto Island for her first long-form drama, One of Them!
- Getting Rena Owen on board for Garth Maxwell’s When Love Comes
- Dealing with negative reactions to the film in New Zealand
- Loving the process of producing Peter Wells’ biographical film Pansy
- The challenge of working with a child actor on 50 Ways of Saying Fabulous
- Feeling that TV series Rude Awakenings got caught up in a game of executive musical chairs
- Snaring Keisha Castle-Hughes for adoption tale Piece of My Heart
- The joys of having a bigger budget for Katherine Mansfield tele-film Bliss
- Her awe at what director Welby Ings brought to short film Munted
- How being a producer means you're always looking forward
Interview Credit
Interview, Camera and Editing – Andrew Whiteside
“There was money and it was a different process, it really was, from our point of view anyway. Being able to say yes to Fiona [Samuel] most of the time rather than no, is a joy for a producer.”
Michele Fantl on the joys of having a reasonable budget for Fiona Samuel's TV movie Bliss
Copyright
This video was first uploaded on 18 April 2016, 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.
