DickReade
- Sound
Sound recordist Dick Reade's list of awards includes gongs for his work on The Navigator, Mt Zion, After the Waterfall and When Love Comes — and an Emmy nomination for TV’s Buggin’ with Ruud. In 2007 he was named SPADA/Onfilm industry champion. After more than a decade with state television, Reade went freelance in the early 80s. These days he runs his own studio in West Auckland.
Screenography
Biography
Sound veteran Dick Reade has forged an award-winning career despite shunning the limelight, and avoiding more high paying projects in favour of working on distinctively local television and films. For Reade the variety of working in sound has been a big part of its appeal — from going on location, to adding sounds in the studio that can alter the pace or mood of a story.
Awards
2017 Rialto Channel New Zealand Film Awards (The Moas)
Nominated for Best Sound: for Turbo Kid
Nominated for the same award (with Mike Hedges): for Hunt for the Wilderpeople
Nominated for the same award (with Fred Enholmer and Tim Chaproniere): for The Rehearsal
“There’s no one way to do things, only guidelines, so it’s good to try for different effects and see what works…I’ve never been able to do what I’ve been told – ever since I was about five there’s always been that questioning rebel thing.”