ChrisPlummer
- Editor
Christopher Plummer went from playing punk music to cutting film, first at TVNZ editing documentaries, and then on a slate of award-winning films. They include the shorts Sure to Rise (Niki Caro), and Possum (Brad McGann); and feature films Channelling Baby, In My Father's Den, Black Sheep, No.2, Vincent Ward doco Rain of the Children, and Taika Waititi's breakout hit Boy.
Screenography
Biography
Films like Alain Resnais classic Hiroshima Mon Amour helped win over Chris Plummer to the possibilities of telling stories on film. He was playing in punk bands at the time, and Godard movies like Vivre sa vie felt like the filmic equivalent, showing it was “possible to be radical and expressive” with film as well.
Awards
2025 New Zealand Screen Awards/Ngā Taonga Whakaata O Aotearoa
Directors and Editors Guild of Aotearoa New Zealand Best Editing - Drama Feature: for Joika (shared with Martin Brinkler)
2010 Qantas Film and Television Awards
Best Editing - Film: for Boy
“One of the ways I try to work is to follow my intuition. Sometimes logic just doesn’t work in the cutting room, even though the argument about why something should work sounds great. ”