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NZ On Screen is pleased to welcome Paul Stanley Ward on board as our new editor!
Paul is a Wellington-based writer who has experience in writing both for web (as Editor of the New Zealand Edge website) and for television (most recently working with Gibson Group and Sticky Pictures in producer, researcher and writer roles). He has also written two nzfc-funded short film scripts.
Paul is ideally placed to coordinate the group of writers working with NZ On Screen, and to set the tone and style of copy throughout the site (he has a degree in English Lit from Oxford to answer knotty apostrophe questions).
Aside from all that, he’s working on a secret project that will bring the calls of New Zealand birds to the masses … more on that later.
Right now the NZ On Screen team is totally focussed on content acquisition. The site has been designed and developed and now a lot of content needs to be pulled together for launch! This means digitising film and television programmes – which is happening at the Film Archive and at the Dub Shop – as well as researching, finding photographs, and writing perspectives and profiles for key cast and crew.
We will put nothing online that does not have copyright clearance. This is a massive undertaking for the Rights and Legal team (Kim Baker and Catherine Juniot) who are chasing producers and copyright holders all over the country to get titles cleared.
