MartinEdmond
- Writer
The work of writer Martin Edmond rarely slots into easy geographical or stylistic boxes. After making his screen debut as co-writer of Illustrious Energy — an evocative portrait of Chinese gold prospectors in Central Otago — Edmond has gone on to explore tales of outsiders in another three feature films, and a number of books.
Screenography
Biography
For Martin Edmond, to write scripts, “you have to think visually and you have to think dramatically . . . when you write film you’ve only really got two arrows in your quiver. You’ve got dialogue, which is words, and you’ve got objective description, which is what the camera sees.”
Awards
1999 Nokia New Zealand Film Awards
Best Short Film: Philosophy
1988 Taormina Film Festival (Italy)
Bronze Charybdis (Third prize): Illustrious Energy
“Misapplied pressure for your project to be commercial is one of the filmwriter’s nightmares, because the result of it, so often, is that the film as made misinterprets the intention of the script. ”
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