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LoganBrewer

  • Production designer
  • Producer
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Logan Brewer first made his mark on television as production designer of ambitious period drama Hunter’s Gold. In the early 80s he went freelance, producing cop show Mortimer’s Patch and children’s drama Terry and the Gunrunners. His project work included opening and closing ceremonies for the 1990 Commonwealth Games, and the NZ pavilions at Expos in Brisbane and Seville. Brewer passed away on 7 August 2015.

Screenography

2000 Executive Producer Television
2000 Today
1999 - 2000 Executive Producer Series
1993 Executive Producer Television
1988 Associate Producer Television

Biography

Logan Brewer had a glittering career as a project designer — responsible for major successes including the opening and closing ceremonies at the 1990 Auckland Commonwealth Games, and New Zealand Pavilions at World Expos in Brisbane in 1988 and Seville in 1992. An award-winning television designer, he also worked as a producer on police drama Mortimer’s Patch and kidult series Terry and the Gunrunners.

Awards

1993 Cable Ace Awards (Cable Television Awards, United States)
Nominated for Best Children’s Programming Series - ages 6 and younger (with 9 others): Mrs Piggle-Wiggle
Nominated for Best Children’s Special or Series - ages 6 and younger (with 7 others): Mrs Piggle-Wiggle

“You try to listen to arguments and reasons for this and that and you spend all your time listening. But once the script is in place, if anyone goes wandering off in another direction, I bring them back. That’s the producer’s job. You straddle art and commerce.”

Logan Brewer, in a 26 February 1990 Listener interview

Related images

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Designer Logan Brewer's model for the set of 1980's Pagliacci, a 65 minute television adaptation of the opera by Ruggero Leoncavallo.
Kindly supplied by Peter Coates
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A picture of the tent ‘city’ built for series Hunter’s Gold  - near the Shotover Bridge, on the edge of Queenstown.
Photograph by Dale Gardiner
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A behind the scenes shot of the village set built for 1979 kidult series Children of Fire Mountain.
Photograph supplied by Brian Walden
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The main village set which Logan Brewer designed for kidult series Children of Fire Mountain, set in 1900.  It was built on the shores of Lake Wainamu, at Bethells Beach/Te Henga. 
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A behind the scenes shot of assembled extras, taken on the village set built for 1979 TV series Children of Fire Mountain.
Photograph supplied by Brian Walden