ScreenTalk: Bryan Bruce
The star of TV One’s The Investigator, Bryan Bruce has made programmes on everything from Kiwi humour to mass murderers.
In this ScreenTalk interview, the director, writer and presenter talks about:
• Making his television debut interviewing Katherine Mansfield and Chopin, after a lucky break while playing piano in a bar
• Mortgaging his house to make a documentary on yachtsman Sir Peter Blake, then selling it around the world in the time it took Blake to sail into Auckland harbour
• Some similar features of the famous New Zealanders he has profiled for documentaries, including Whina Cooper, Howard Morrison and John O’Shea
• Discovering the common traits of mass murderers for the documentary In Cold Blood
• How he takes the unusual approach of offering his own opinion, on true-life crime series The Investigator
• How the secret drop box for The Investigator has received much worthwhile information
NZ On Screen: Direction and Interview – Ian Pryor. Camera and Editing – Alex Backhouse