ScreenTalk: Wayne Tourell
20 Aug 2013
Veteran drama and documentary producer/director Wayne Tourell's career has taken him from Shakespeare to Shortland Street.
Veteran drama and documentary producer/director Wayne Tourell's career has taken him from Shakespeare to Shortland Street.
Tourell's credits include major television series such as Landmarks, Hanlon and Gloss, as well as numerous live TV events including Telethon 1988. More recently he has worked at Natural History New Zealand, and been a regular director on our nightly soap Shortland Street.
In this ScreenTalk, Tourell talks about:
- Learning from directing legend David Lean on documentary Lost and Found
- Working with geographic genius Professor Kenneth Cumberland on Landmarks
- The tortuous process of bringing Hanlon to the small screen
- How Gloss perfectly mirrored the era it was portraying
- Why City Life was the wrong show in the wrong time-slot
- Worrying that no money would come in while producing Telethon 88
- How Shortland Street is the Shakespeare of today
This video is available on YouTube to embed and distribute via a Creative Commons licence.
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