Veteran producer/director John Laing has worked in film and television in New Zealand, Canada and the UK. His feature films include the Arthur Allan Thomas-inspired Beyond Reasonable Doubt, cross-cultural romance Other Halves and thriller Dangerous Orphans.

Laing has also directed a long list of popular drama series for TV, including Go Girls, Nothing Trivial, Street Legal, Inside Straight and Marlin Bay; plus tele-feature Safe House.

In this ScreenTalk, Laing talks about:

• Upsetting the National Film Unit with his unconventional film Kariotahi Beach
• Learning how to direct a feature film on the set of Beyond Reasonable Doubt
• Taking on too many roles on offbeat thriller The Lost Tribe
• Getting back to basic story-telling on Inside Straight
• Being unhappy with the end result on feature film Other Halves
• Relishing the prospect of creating film noir feature Dangerous Orphans
• The challenge of juggling different directors on Outrageous Fortune
• Creating an 'intense' set for tele-feature Safe House

This video is available on YouTube to embed and distribute via a Creative Commons licence.

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