VeronicaMcCarthy-de Friez
- Producer
Veronica McCarthy-de Friez founded Christchurch-based production company Raconteur in 1996. Her work at Raconteur includes producing a wide range of documentaries, including profiles of poet Denis Glover and painter Grahame Sydney.
Screenography
Biography
Veronica McCarthy-de Friez has produced documentaries on everything from artists to the human body, to earthquakes. En route, she has done time in production management, public relations, and marketing.
In 1995 McCarthy-de Friez was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to research children's television overseas. This experience fed into her later work with Raconteur Productions. She founded the company in Christchurch in 1996, with her partner, director Bill de Friez. Raconteur has ventured into children's series and education programming, although it has concentrated most on one-off documentaries.
“There are many, many lessons to be learnt — what we've done correctly and what we could have done better. It's important in terms of archiving and documenting that we show that...”