Don Blakeney: The early days of NZ film...

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Don Blakeney: The early days of NZ film...

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Don 'Scrubbs' Blakeney had a background in finance. After working overseas in the 1970s, he met Kiwi producers John Barnett and Grahame McLean. Disillusioned with the corporate world, Blakeney ended up drifting into the film industry, initially as a caterer on Sleeping Dogs. In 1979, his background in both finance and film made Blakeney the ideal first Executive Director of the newly established NZ Film Commission. He later produced Geoff Murphy’s classic Utu. For this ScreenTalk interview, p...

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producer / nz film / private investment / film funding / utu / geoff murphy / new zealand film commission / nz film commission / filmmaking / producing / scrubbs / 1970s / seventies / brent hansen: mtv / rwp / and the future of music... / geoff murphy: from blerta to pork pie / to hollywood... / john barnett / marketing / film commission / new zealand cinema / new zealand films

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