Rachel Jean: documentaries, dramas and being a network executive...
2010 9m
Rachel Jean has produced more than 40 documentaries, plus comedies and dramas, and run her own company, Isola Productions. In 2009 she became Head of Drama and Comedy at TV3, and then from 2013 to 2020, Head of Development at South Pacific Pictures.
In this ScreenTalk interview, Jean talks about:
- Her early work with Owen Hughes at Frame Up Films
- The birth of Niki Caro's first feature Memory and Desire
- Embarrassing moments during the filming of Love Mussel
- The joys of spending her pregnancy on the floor and laughing while helping write Secret Agent Men
- How The Market came about, and its intriguing production philosophy
- An insight into the making of her documentary Life, Death and a Lung Transplant about her husband’s Cystic Fibrosis and lung transplant
- Her most satisfying achievements as Head of Drama and Comedy at TV3
Interview Credit
Interview, Camera & Editing – James Coleman
“I spent months and months locked in a back room of my office with those three boys, laughing. So my entire pregnancy was just me, quite often lying on the floor laughing, as I tried to teach them anything I knew about drama. ”
Rachel Jean on working with Stephen J Campbell, Jon Bridges and Matt McPhail on TV series Secret Agent Men
