OwenFerrier-Kerr
- Editor
Owen Ferrier-Kerr’s editing career has spanned six decades. From Kiwi television staple Country Calendar to Oscar-nominated short film Two Cars, One Night, Ferrier-Kerr has edited some of New Zealand’s most beloved visual narratives of the last half century.
Screenography
Biography
Owen Ferrier-Kerr’s mother once told him that he'd never get a job watching television. At the time Ferrier-Kerr was a teenager living in Hamilton, after his family relocated from his childhood home of Christchurch. A longtime enthusiast of visual narratives, Ferrier-Kerr recalls returning home from school and watching the test pattern on television until the evening broadcast began. He even started a film society at his high school, Fairfield College, where he hosted weekly screenings.
Awards
2005 Qantas Television Awards
Nominated for Best Editing - Non-Factual: for Seven Periods with Mr Gormsby, The Retarded Boy episode
2004 Drifting Clouds International Short Film Festival (New Zealand)
Best Editing: for Two Cars, One Night
“I cut for an audience of one. I don’t quite know what gender that person is, how old they are, but I always think there’s somebody watching this and I’m not going to short-change them.”