Arts Management in TBI TV & Audio

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An initiative of the Arts Regional Trust Te Taumata Toi-a-iwi (ART) in partnership with The Big Idea, Survive & Thrive is a public forum, expo and series of workshops for people working in the creative sector.

There's nothing like being there - but here's some highlights from Survive & Thrive 2011. Read More »

Joanna Paul‘s screen career has seen her both in front of and behind the camera, and undertaking some of the most challenging Maori screen projects in New Zealand, including Aroha, the country’s first TV series in Te Reo, and the launch of Maori Television. Read More »

New Zealander of the Year 2011 Sir Paul Callaghan's video address to creative entrepreneurs at Survive & Thrive: Fuelling the Business of Creativity, held in Auckland on July 14 2011. 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 »

In this ScreenTalk video interview actress Geraldine Brophy talks about the connections people make with a character and how it can manifest in extraordinary ways.

“You have to be really responsible with that, as an actress. That’s a precious thing. An audience, and their belief in you, is something that you must honour.” Read More »

New Zealand inherited 15-year-old Jaquie Brown from England. Following a stint at Auckland’s 95bFM in her late teens, she soon became ensconced in the intriguing world of television.

Brown talks to James Coleman about her journey, including The Jaquie Brown Diaries. Read More »

Jon Bridges has written, directed, produced and starred in numerous documentaries, dramas, game shows and films. He is currently producing TV3’s well-received comedy panel show 7 Days. Read More »

Idealog TV @ Semi-Permanent 09: Pentagram’s Harry Pearce discusses his passion for mixing his creative work with human rights project Witness. Then there’s the conversation he had with Te Radar involving Spike Milligan and gravestones.

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Idealog TV @ Semi-Permanent 09: He’s a bit of a legend in the design industry and on a surfboard. Idealog talks with David Carson, a man who makes a living from his hobby. 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 »

Even as a schoolboy, Oliver Driver knew he wanted to be an actor. Since leaving school he has had a varied career in theatre, television and film.

"I didn't want to be just an actor, I wanted to be a creative and it's taken me a long time to come to the point where I can call myself an artist and not cringe about that." Read More »

Scriptwriter, playwright and columnist James Griffin has been writing for most of his life. Since becoming a scriptwriter in the 1980s Griffin has written many of New Zealand’s most well known and best loved TV shows, including Outrageous Fortune. In this ScreenTalk interview, James Griffin gets serious about Kiwi comedy. Read More »

Tainui Stephens (Te Rarawa) is one of our foremost Maori broadcasters. He has worked as a reporter, writer, director, producer and executive producer.

Stephens was a stalwart of TVNZ’s Maori Programmes department in the 1980s and 90s, working on the regular series Koha, Waka Huia, Marae and Mai Time. Read More »

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 »

Vanessa Alexander wrote stage plays before turning her hand to writing, directing and producing for film and television.  She is best known for her feature film Magik and Rose, for producing innovative children’s drama series Being Eve, and as a director on popular westie TV show Outrageous Fortune. Read More »

Producer Elizabeth Mitchell set up Firehorse Films to produce the popular TV3 animated comedy series bro’Town. Mitchell talks to NZ on Screen about how bro’Town came about and its future now that the last TV series is on air - a future that includes television specials and a movie. 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 »

By Vincent Heeringa

Peri Drysdale, founder of Untouched World, speaks about turning 500 knitters into a global knitwear and sustainability brand on this instalment of Idealog TV. Read More »