Music & Sound in TBI TV & Audio

Martin Devlin’s first screen appearance involved playing a policeman in a film shot in Taranaki – he can’t remember the name of it, but is fairly sure it wasn’t a box office hit. Following success as a radio broadcaster, Devlin made his first foray into television on a rugby panel for Sky TV.
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Veteran broadcaster Brian Edwards is an Irish import who made a big impact on New Zealand current affairs television.

In this ScreenTalk interview, Edwards talks about his career and the state of current affairs today. Read More »

Geoff Murphy is the trumpet-player who got New Zealand yelling in the movie aisles. After boning up on filmmaking on the Blerta bus, Murphy turned out a triple punch of local classics: 1981 blockbuster Goodbye Pork Pie, historical epic Utu and last man on earth tale The Quiet Earth. Read More »

Rocker Ray Columbus, OBE, has been a headline act since 1961 when he appeared on Time Out for Talent at the age of 18.

Since then, he has performed on or hosted a huge range of music and light entertainment TV shows including: Club Columbus, C’Mon, Happen Inn, Personality Squares and That’s Country. Read More »

Richard Driver began his showbiz career in a punk band, calling himself Johnny Abort. He then moved on to the popular Kiwi rock bands Pop Mechanix and Hip Singles. Driver made his TV presenting debut replacing Karyn Hay on Radio with Pictures and hosted the show for three years. Read More »

His favourite music videos include Joy Division’s Atmosphere and Tall Dwarfs’ Turning Brown and Torn in Two. And Brent Hansen has seen a lot of music videos. From producing famously eclectic Kiwi music show Radio with Pictures to rising up through the ranks to become head of MTV Europe, Brent Hansen has been a major player in putting music on screen. Read More »

Musician, artist, writer and director Greg Page began his film career in Hamilton in the early 90s, making music videos for local bands.

Since then he has written and directed several short films, including claymations Decaff and The New Zealand Centenary of Cinema and his full length feature film The Locals. Read More »

Brendan Smyth is charged with getting more New Zealand music on the airwaves. As NZ Music Manager at NZ On Air, he leads a team that funds and promotes Kiwi music and music videos.

In this ScreenTalk interview, Smyth talks about the history and role of NZ On Air and how it chooses which music videos to fund. Read More »

Director, photographer and Axemen drummer Stuart Page is a prolific filmmaker and has made more than 40 music videos.

In 2009 he won Best Feature Documentary and Best Emerging filmmaker at the DocNZ International Film Festival for his film Shustak, a portrait of American photographer Laurence Shustak. Read More »

Voices from Venice: New Zealand Commissioner for Venice Biennale, Jenny Harper, introduces some highlights at the 53rd Venice Biennale, including a performance by Te Waka Huia singer Ria Hall.

Video supplied by Creative New Zealand, filmed by BlueBach Productions.

Rock’n'roll couple Karyn Hay and Andrew Fagan have both had long and varied careers in New Zealand music and media.

They are currently night-time hosts on Radio Live, but Fagan spent many years as the lead singer of pop band The Mockers, and Hay was the long-time host of iconic music show Radio with Pictures.

Hay and Fagan are also both published authors. Read More »

In part two of a ScreenTalk interview, Flying Nun founder Roger Shepherd chats with Chris Knox about his life and career.  Knox talks about directing music videos, becoming a film reviewer and TV presenter and his long-running cartoon strip Max Media. Read More »

Chris Knox is a musician, film critic and cartoonist. His music career began with legendary Dunedin punk band The Enemy, followed by post-punk heroes Toy Love, then the Tall Dwarfs and his own solo work.

Flying Nun founder Roger Shepherd chats with Chris Knox about his life and career, in this ScreenTalk interview. Read More »

The Woolshed Sessions captures the DIY essence of New Zealand music. A collective of musicians and friends recording a live session in a Golden Bay woolshed, owned by NZ film maker Gaylene Preston, with no expectations.

Two years later The Big Idea catches up with the band at the Leigh Sawmill Cafe. Read More »

Documentary filmmaker Leanne Pooley’s award-winning films have examined some of the most potent issues of New Zealand’s recent history from euthanasia (The Promise, about euthanasia advocate Lesley Martin), to sport and politics (Try Revolution, about the effect of protests against the 1981 Springbok Tour in South Africa), to controversial murders (Relative Guilt, about the effect of the Da Read More »

Jennifer Ward-Lealand talks to NZ On Screen about her wide experience in theatre (including with innovative eighties theatre company, Theatre Corporate), comedy (with Harry Sinclair and Don McGlashan in The Front Lawn and in Aussie sketch comedy series Full Frontal), to feature films including Leon Narbey’s The Footstep Man and Larry Parr’s Fracture. Read More »