The Footstep Man

Film (Excerpts) – 1992

One of a select few Kiwi dramas about filmmaking, The Footstep Man centres on a man whose job is creating footsteps and sound effects for movies. Lonely, toiling under a demanding director, Sam (Brit Steven Grimes) gets trapped between real life and reel life. Cinematographer Leon Narbey’s second movie is a portrait of the strange pressure cooker of creating films, a luminous film within a film — with Jennifer Ward-Lealand as muse to painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec — and a reminder that for all the technology involved, moviemaking is about the human touch.

Take it easy Sam. You don't want to crack up again.
– Jake (Peter Dennett)

Key Cast & Crew

Simon Mark-Brown

Art Director

Jennifer Ward-Lealand

As: Mireille/Actor

Martin Edmond

Writer

Leon Narbey

Director, Writer

John Maynard

Producer

Frances Edmond

As: Assistant Madame

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Produced by

John Maynard Productions

Source

John Maynard Productions

Acknowledgements

Made with funding from the New Zealand Film Commission, in association with NZ On Air

Music

Music composed by Jan Preston and performed by Preston (piano), Peter Boyd (saxophone) and members of the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra

Soundtrack includes Quintet in C Major (Franz Schubert), performed by Ensemble Villa Musica, In the Deep of the Night, performed by Love and Bass, and Tabula Rasa (Arvo Part), performed by Gidon Kremer, Tatjana Grindenko and Alfred Schnittke