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  • Writer: Amanda Riddell
    Amanda Riddell
  • Apr 9, 2024
  • 1 min read

I don't have IMDB Pro, so I have no idea how to get in touch. Re: Sondheim, I was lucky that a search brought up his real lawyer, and that's how it got to him. Like, I've made some movies, but I don't have an agent and I haven't left Aotearoa since 2013, which was a brief trip to Australia for a wedding. So yeah... people say that most celebrities use fake names and stuff when they get in touch with Kiwis, so I'm not that surprised that people are interested in my stuff. - Obviously the Kiwi pros have made a few references to my movies, so that suggests that they're in the discourse. I've had ideas for movie screenings, including international ones, but I'm very much a fan rather than a distributor.

 
 
 

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Amanda Riddell
Amanda Riddell
Apr 09, 2024

Speaking locally, I have friends that know Bret and Jemaine and Taika, but personally I've seen those dudes at movie screenings. Stephen went to a Q&A that Taika gave. Plus Dean Hewison is a local filmmaker that I admired when I was young. But yeah, I've never had a gig on an American set -- loneliness of directing and composing. Like, a lot of well-known people have met me at some stage or other, but I'm not that much for celebrity collecting, particularly given that my films mostly used unknowns.

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Amanda Riddell
Amanda Riddell
Apr 09, 2024
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As for my decision to write a book rather than make a movie: that was my call, and partly because my literary friends look down on me. Plus I'm finding writing prose is freeing. I hate the snobbiness of Wellington, particularly given that films and video games are actually a significant part of the GDP. - It's not my job to 'be an icon' on-screen. I choose not to act, and I've always felt that the constant photographing of trans people reinforces unhealthy ideals.

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