John Laing: Beyond Reasonable Doubt to Outrageous Fortune...

Veteran producer/director John Laing has worked in film and television in New Zealand, Canada and the UK. His feature films include the Arthur Allan Thomas-inspired Beyond Reasonable Doubt, cross-cultural romance Other Halves and thriller Dangerous Orphans. Laing has also directed a long list of popular drama series for TV, including Go Girls, Nothing Trivial, Street Legal, Inside Straight and Marlin Bay; plus tele-feature Safe House.

In this ScreenTalk, Laing talks about:

• Upsetting the National Film Unit with his unconventional film Kariotahi Beach
• Learning how to direct a feature film on the set of Beyond Reasonable Doubt
• Taking on too many roles on offbeat thriller The Lost Tribe
• Getting back to basic story-telling on Inside Straight
• Being unhappy with the end result on feature film Other Halves
• Relishing the prospect of creating film noir feature Dangerous Orphans
• The challenge of juggling different directors on Outrageous Fortune
• Creating an 'intense' set for tele-feature Safe House

This video was first uploaded on 3 March 2014, 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