Geoff Murphy.
Producer, director and screenwriter Geoff Murphy, a leading figure in New Zealand cinema’s renaissance of the late 1970s and early 1980s, died in Wellington on Monday. He was 80.
Murphy was best known as the director of Goodbye Pork Pie, Utu and The Quiet Earth. Action-comedy Goodbye Pork Pie, a road movie starring Kelly Johnson, Tony Barry and Claire Oberman, became the first local film to gain blockbuster status at the box office in 1981, according to the New Zealand Film Commission.
“He deserves every ounce of credit for the brilliant things he did with The Quiet Earth,” writer-director Sam Pillsbury told Stuff Nz. “He was a genius and one of the most brilliant people I’ve ever worked with and I learned a lot from him.”
He was was a founding member of Blerta, the musical and theatrical co-operative that toured New Zealand in the early 1970s. His first feature,...
Producer, director and screenwriter Geoff Murphy, a leading figure in New Zealand cinema’s renaissance of the late 1970s and early 1980s, died in Wellington on Monday. He was 80.
Murphy was best known as the director of Goodbye Pork Pie, Utu and The Quiet Earth. Action-comedy Goodbye Pork Pie, a road movie starring Kelly Johnson, Tony Barry and Claire Oberman, became the first local film to gain blockbuster status at the box office in 1981, according to the New Zealand Film Commission.
“He deserves every ounce of credit for the brilliant things he did with The Quiet Earth,” writer-director Sam Pillsbury told Stuff Nz. “He was a genius and one of the most brilliant people I’ve ever worked with and I learned a lot from him.”
He was was a founding member of Blerta, the musical and theatrical co-operative that toured New Zealand in the early 1970s. His first feature,...
- 12/3/2018
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
(l-r) James Rolleston and Dean O.Gorman.
Kiwi director Matt Murphy grew up helping out on shoots with his filmmaker father Geoff.
Geoff made his feature debut with Goodbye Pork Pie in the early 80s. Murphy the younger worked on the film as a teenager before embarking on his own career as a gaffer, an art director and finally a director himself, based out of Sydney but shooting commercials globally.
Murphy has now made his own feature debut — with Pork Pie, a remake of his father.s film in Australian cinemas May 4.
The director began writing the screenplay, his first, five years ago, and describes his early drafts as .a bit too Hollywood..
.I wrote bigger car chases, more fantastic stunts,. Murphy tells If. .And then I realized films are about the characters, about people and their journeys. You can have the biggest event ever but if it.s not...
Kiwi director Matt Murphy grew up helping out on shoots with his filmmaker father Geoff.
Geoff made his feature debut with Goodbye Pork Pie in the early 80s. Murphy the younger worked on the film as a teenager before embarking on his own career as a gaffer, an art director and finally a director himself, based out of Sydney but shooting commercials globally.
Murphy has now made his own feature debut — with Pork Pie, a remake of his father.s film in Australian cinemas May 4.
The director began writing the screenplay, his first, five years ago, and describes his early drafts as .a bit too Hollywood..
.I wrote bigger car chases, more fantastic stunts,. Murphy tells If. .And then I realized films are about the characters, about people and their journeys. You can have the biggest event ever but if it.s not...
- 5/3/2017
- by Harry Windsor
- IF.com.au
Australians in Film has opened applications for the ninth annual Heath Ledger Scholarship.
Established in memory of Ledger, the prize is awarded to an emerging Aussie actor between aged between 18-35 years. The recipient will receive Us$10,000 and two return airfares to La.
Last year's winner, Ashleigh Cummings stars in the upcoming Kiwi feature Pork Pie, distributed by StudioCanal later this year.
Other past winners include Anna McGahan, set to star in Foxtel.s Picnic at Hanging Rock, Ryan Corr (Mary Magdalene, The Water Diviner, Holding the Man), James Mackay (The Dressmaker, Hacksaw Ridge, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales) and Bella Heathcote (Fifty Shades Darker, Dark Shadows, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies).
AiF board member and Heath.s sister Kate Ledger said the scholarship was close to the heart. .
.Seeing the struggles that Heath went through in making that transition with his international career and knowing...
Established in memory of Ledger, the prize is awarded to an emerging Aussie actor between aged between 18-35 years. The recipient will receive Us$10,000 and two return airfares to La.
Last year's winner, Ashleigh Cummings stars in the upcoming Kiwi feature Pork Pie, distributed by StudioCanal later this year.
Other past winners include Anna McGahan, set to star in Foxtel.s Picnic at Hanging Rock, Ryan Corr (Mary Magdalene, The Water Diviner, Holding the Man), James Mackay (The Dressmaker, Hacksaw Ridge, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales) and Bella Heathcote (Fifty Shades Darker, Dark Shadows, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies).
AiF board member and Heath.s sister Kate Ledger said the scholarship was close to the heart. .
.Seeing the struggles that Heath went through in making that transition with his international career and knowing...
- 2/21/2017
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Nz producer Tom Hern among trio recommended for UK’s Production Finance Market.
A group of international sales agents has voted Nz producer Tom Hern (The Dark Horse) of Four Knights Films as the producer from the 65th Melbourne International Film Festival’s 37º South Market whose slate should be pitched at the UK’s Production Finance Market (Pfm) in October.
Hern will head to London to pitch the Four Knights slate of projects, which includes an action road-comedy, Pork Pie, and a whimsical post-wwii story of an 11 year-old Irish orphan émigré newly arrived in New Zealand, A Long Way Home.
Hern previously produced well-travelled 2014 drama The Dark Horse, which played at Toronto, Rotterdam and Cph Pix.
Producers Philippa Campey (The Turning) and Jamie Houge (The Lookalike) have also won places at Pfm, but did not receive travel assistance. Campey will take her Film Camp slate of features and documentaries to London, and Houge will...
A group of international sales agents has voted Nz producer Tom Hern (The Dark Horse) of Four Knights Films as the producer from the 65th Melbourne International Film Festival’s 37º South Market whose slate should be pitched at the UK’s Production Finance Market (Pfm) in October.
Hern will head to London to pitch the Four Knights slate of projects, which includes an action road-comedy, Pork Pie, and a whimsical post-wwii story of an 11 year-old Irish orphan émigré newly arrived in New Zealand, A Long Way Home.
Hern previously produced well-travelled 2014 drama The Dark Horse, which played at Toronto, Rotterdam and Cph Pix.
Producers Philippa Campey (The Turning) and Jamie Houge (The Lookalike) have also won places at Pfm, but did not receive travel assistance. Campey will take her Film Camp slate of features and documentaries to London, and Houge will...
- 8/16/2016
- ScreenDaily
Nz producer Tom Hern among trio recommended for UK’s Production Finance Market.
A group of international sales agents has voted Nz producer Tom Hern of Four Knights Films as the producer from the 65th Melbourne International Film Festival’s 37º South Market whose slate should be pitched at the UK’s Production Finance Market (Pfm) in October.
Hern will head to London to pitch the Four Knights slate of projects, which includes an action road-comedy, Pork Pie, and a whimsical post-wwii story of an 11 year-old Irish orphan émigré newly arrived in New Zealand, A Long Way Home.
Producers Philippa Campey and Jamie Houge have also won places at Pfm, but did not receive travel assistance. Campey will take her Film Camp slate of features and documentaries to London, and Houge will seek co-production partners for her Edinburgh-set female detective thriller Switchblade Electric.
The 65th Miff wrapped its programme on August 14, after a 17-day event that straddles...
A group of international sales agents has voted Nz producer Tom Hern of Four Knights Films as the producer from the 65th Melbourne International Film Festival’s 37º South Market whose slate should be pitched at the UK’s Production Finance Market (Pfm) in October.
Hern will head to London to pitch the Four Knights slate of projects, which includes an action road-comedy, Pork Pie, and a whimsical post-wwii story of an 11 year-old Irish orphan émigré newly arrived in New Zealand, A Long Way Home.
Producers Philippa Campey and Jamie Houge have also won places at Pfm, but did not receive travel assistance. Campey will take her Film Camp slate of features and documentaries to London, and Houge will seek co-production partners for her Edinburgh-set female detective thriller Switchblade Electric.
The 65th Miff wrapped its programme on August 14, after a 17-day event that straddles...
- 8/16/2016
- ScreenDaily
The New Zealand Film Commission has named the recipients of its one-off business development scheme Boost, with total funding of more than $NZ450,000.
The scheme is designed to accelerate the slates of active producers and to enable screen businesses to move films more quickly into production.
Applicants were invited to apply for $NZ50,000 - $NZ130,000 per business. At least 50 per cent of the money must be allocated to third party development costs and the commission expects the entire amount to be spent within 12-18 months.
The recipients are Jump Film and Television, Centron Pictures, Pop Film, Four Knights Film and Firefly Films.
Making the announcement at the Big Screen Symposium conference, Nzfc CEO Dave Gibson, said that screen companies in New Zealand are growing in number and scale and he expects the five Boost companies will contribute to this growth.
Founded by Robin Scholes, Jump Pictures is completing Lee Tamahori...
The scheme is designed to accelerate the slates of active producers and to enable screen businesses to move films more quickly into production.
Applicants were invited to apply for $NZ50,000 - $NZ130,000 per business. At least 50 per cent of the money must be allocated to third party development costs and the commission expects the entire amount to be spent within 12-18 months.
The recipients are Jump Film and Television, Centron Pictures, Pop Film, Four Knights Film and Firefly Films.
Making the announcement at the Big Screen Symposium conference, Nzfc CEO Dave Gibson, said that screen companies in New Zealand are growing in number and scale and he expects the five Boost companies will contribute to this growth.
Founded by Robin Scholes, Jump Pictures is completing Lee Tamahori...
- 10/11/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
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