Chris Plummer (film editor)

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Chris Plummer (from Newton Auckland) is a New Zealand film editor. He has worked on a number of films, including the shorts Sure to Rise and Possum, and feature films Channelling Baby, In My Father's Den, Black Sheep, No.2, Vincent Ward's documentary Rain of the Children, and Taika Waititi's Boy . [1] [2]

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Education

He studied communications at the University of Technology, Sydney and spent time at Auckland filmmakers' co-operative Alternative Cinema. [ citation needed ]

Career

In 1986, he began working as an editor at TVNZ, a government television news agency in New Zealand. In 1994, he worked with director Bill Saunders on his documentary, Everybody Hurts.[ citation needed ]

Plummer won New Zealand Screen Awards for editing for the 2004 film In My Father's Den and the 2008 film Dean Spanley .[ citation needed ]

In 2005, No. 2, which Plummer edited, was a Robert Redford Festival Pick at Sundance. [3]

In 2010, Plummer won Best Editing in a Feature Film by Qantas Film Awards for his work on Boy. [4]

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References

  1. ↑ Debruge, Peter (23 January 2010). "Film reviews: Boy (New Zealand)". Variety . Retrieved 8 September 2012.
  2. ↑ NZ Onscreen, Chris Plummer: Biography
  3. ↑ New Zealand Film Commission, "Redford's Festival Picks NZ Film," 30 November 2005
  4. ↑ TVNZ, "Qantas Film Awards finalists," 12 August 2010


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