KaiHawkins
- Production designer
In a design career lasting over 60 years, Kai Hawkins has contributed to many of New Zealand’s most notable films, but his screen career has also led to many other opportunities, including designing museum exhibitions, retail spaces and lighting.
Screenography
Biography
Kai Hawkins’ first ambition was to become an architect. In early 1961, straight out of Cashmere High School, he got a job as an office boy with the prestigious Christchurch architecture firm of Warren and Mahoney. However attempts to get into architecture were not successful — "Physics was not my thing". Instead Hawkins focused his drawing skills on graphic design at the Canterbury University School of Fine Art.
Awards
1995 New Zealand Film and Television Awards
Nominated for Best Design for a Commercial: for Pepcid AC - Acid Casualty
1986 National Mutual GOFTA Awards
Best Production Design - Film: for Vigil
“That bumper went straight through everything! That was my point. It protected the lights and everything else so the truck could keep going all the time during filming. Imagine if you’d actually destroyed the truck halfway thorough the film.”
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