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Producer/director Ray Waru has had a long and distinguished career in both television and radio. He began in television by directing factual shows such as Country Calendar, Fair Go and People Like Us. In 1980 he established the Māori television production unit at TVNZ, and launched Koha, the first regular Māori prime time show. Waru went on to work on two ambitious documentary shows, Our People Our Century and Frontier of Dreams.
In this ScreenTalk interview, Waru talks about:
- Discovering an infamous wine while directing Country Calendar
- Having the freedom to be creative on People Like Us
- Introducing Sharon Crosbie to England on BBC show Tomorrow’s World
- The ideological problems behind Koha, the first regular Māori prime time TV programme
- Making New Zealand history popular on Our People Our Century
- How Frontier of Dreams tried to make history fun and exciting
- Making deals to get the international footage for the series
Interview Credit
Copyright
This video was first uploaded on 28 April 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.
