PatCox
- Producer
- Editor
Pat Cox has been bringing television commercials to the screen since the 1970s. As a producer, he was instrumental in turning longrunning comic strip Footrot Flats into an animated feature. Footrot Flats: A Dog's Tale went on to become the most successful New Zealand feature of the 1980s.
Screenography
Biography
Pat Cox's filmmaking career crosses the gamut, spanning everything from German fighter pilots to Scottish psychiatrists and New Zealand's most beloved dog.
Although “there was no film industry here virtually in those days”, Cox began working in film in his native Ireland, thanks to a next door neighbour in Dublin who worked as a cameraman, “He asked me one day if I would come on a shoot with him to carry his camera gear and that was it". Soon Cox was developing parallel skills as an editor and cameraman. In the second half of the 1960s he worked in various assisting roles on a number of features shooting in Ireland: among them David Lean romance Ryan's Daughter, and The Blue Max, based on German fighter pilot Bruno Stachel.
“One Monday morning I walked into my office and decided I would try to produce a Footrot Flats animated feature film.”
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