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DonReynolds

  • Producer
  • Sound
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Tangata Whenua, A State of Siege, Utu, Smash Palace, The Quiet Earth, Illustrious Energy...The resume of soundman turned producer Don Reynolds covers the modern renaissance of New Zealand film. After starting his own sound companies, Reynolds has gone on to production roles in New Zealand, Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom.

Screenography

Utu Redux
2013 Original Sound Mix Film
Emergence
2009 Producer Short film
The Knock
2006 Executive Producer Short film

Biography

Don Reynolds started working in the sound department, and has gone on to produce 15 features, many of them Kiwi classics.

Reynolds began working in sound in the late 1960s, while training with the government's National Film Unit. Five years later he set up company Associated Sounds, which grew to become one of New Zealand's biggest independent post-production facilities. 

Awards

2006 Air New Zealand Screen Awards
Nominated for Best Film (with Chris Auty): River Queen

1994 CableACE Awards (United States)
Best Mini-Series Special or Series (shared with 11 others): The Sound and the Silence

“The Quiet Earth works because we have tried for something unique. Nobody can make the standard shoot ‘em up car chase films, with four good leads, better than the Americans. We had to be original with excellence.”

— Don Reynolds, on 1985 science fiction movie The Quiet Earth

Related images

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At the premiere of River Queen in Wanganui. From left is director Vincent Ward, producer Don Reynolds and actor Temuera Morrison.
Photographer: Bill Kearns. Kindly provided by The Dominion Post.
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From left to right: Director John Laing, production designer Ralph Davies, producer Don Reynolds and cinematographer Waka Attewell celebrate the final day of shooting Dangerous Orphans, after filming a dramatic car over cliff scene at Titahi Bay.
Kindly provided by The Dominion Post.
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A scene from River Queen.
Photo appears courtesy of the New Zealand Film Commission.
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Actor Bruno Lawrence and director Geoff Murphy, during the making of The Quiet Earth (1985).
Kindly Provided by Onfilm.
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Bruno Lawrence as Zac Hobson addressing an empty world in a scene from The Quiet Earth
Photo appears courtesy of the New Zealand Film Commission.