ScreenTalk: Ruth Harley
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After ten and a half years as CEO of the NZ Film Commission, Dr Ruth Harley has moved across the ditch to helm Screen Australia.
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After ten and a half years as CEO of the NZ Film Commission, Dr Ruth Harley has moved across the ditch to helm Screen Australia.
She talks to NZ On Screen’s Clare O’Leary about being a sometimes controversial leader of the central industry body as it faces up to growing pains, and the challenges of fostering a sustainable New Zealand film industry.
Dr Harley began her career as an academic but quickly moved into management in the film and television sector, initially at TVNZ in the 1980s, then as the first Executive Director of the newly formed funding body NZ On Air.
In 1997 she was appointed CEO of the NZ Film Commission.
Dr Harley commenced work as Screen Australia CEO in November 2008. Screen Australia is the Australian Government's new screen agency replacing the Australian Film Commission, Film Australia and the Film Finance Organisation.
Interview by Clare O'Leary for NZ On Screen. NZ On Screen is the home of New Zealand screen content.