Steven O'Meagher: the 20 year dream that was Harry…

Interview – 2013

As the founder of production company Desert Road, Steven O'Meagher has produced a long list of documentaries, films and television shows. His documentaries include The Understudy, Million Dollar Tumour, and Reluctant Hero. O'Meagher executive produced sci-fi drama This is Not My Life, and produced police series Harry, starring Oscar Kightley.

In this ScreenTalk, O'Meagher talks about:

Throwing away the scripts while working with Paul Holmes on The Way We Were
Bringing an opera singer's "fantastic ego and sense of theatre" to documentary The Understudy
How feature film Out of the Blue challenged the people of Aramoana
Showing a personal journey towards death in award-winning documentary Million Dollar Tumour
How a phone call led to the documentary Reluctant Hero about Willie Apiata
Selling This is Not My Life to an American production company
Being disappointed with how the show rated in New Zealand
How producing Harry has been a 20 year dream

This video was first uploaded on 10 June 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.

Interview, Camera and Editing – Andrew Whiteside

I think this is the big challenge for New Zealanders, is that our production ability here is quite tiny by world standards. And certain productions do need to go offshore to be fully realised.
– Steven O'Meagher on financing screen productions

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