Mark Everton started his broadcasting career in radio, before joining the TVNZ newsroom in 1985. After jumping ship to help run Nightline for TV3, he set himself up as an independent producer and director.

Mark Everton started his broadcasting career in radio, before joining the TVNZ newsroom in 1985. After jumping ship to help run Nightline for TV3, he set himself up as an independent producer and director.

Everton has been involved with a number of award-winning documentaries including Back from the Dead and Lawson Quins doco The Five of Us. His credits also include the series Epitaph, Captain’s Log, MasterChef New Zealand and Making New Zealand.

In this ScreenTalk, Everton talks about:

• Learning "so much" while working with the late Angela D’Audney and others on Eyewitness News
• Moving to TV3 for the "rock'n'roll" days of late night news programme Nightline
• How the network’s receivership led to better stories
• How a chance conversation about graveyards lead to hit show Epitaph
• Successfully convincing the Lawson Quins to tell their story in The Five of Us
• Finding out too late there were a lot of family home movies
• Working with Johnny Givins and Gresham Bradley on Captain’s Log
• Getting memorable advice about seasickness on one of the journeys
• Obtaining rare footage of a real murder investigation for Operation Bouma
• Asking the tough questions of contestants on MasterChef New Zealand
• How Making New Zealand was much more than just an archive series

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

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