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Richard Driver Joins Documentary NZ Trust
Media Release: 12 April 2011
Richard Driver Joins Documentary NZ
Trust
The Documentary NZ Trust is
pleased to announce that Richard Driver has joined Alex Lee
and Dan Shanan as a Trustee of the Documentary NZ Trust. The
Trust is a notforprofit organization that organizes
the annual Documentary Edge Festival and other associated
documentary industry activities.
Most recently, Richard developed the extremely successful Documentary Channel, which he sold to BBC and renamed BBC Knowledge. Richard started in TV as the host of Radio with Pictures but it is behind the scenes that the former lead singer (Pop Mechanix) has made a career.
His first foray into directing was the documentary Hokonui Todd; and he ran his own production company, Visionary TV, creating programmes like Give it a Whirl and the award winning Love, Speed and Loss. “Richard’s passion for storytelling and documentaries matches the Trust’s aspirations. He will bring a fresh business perspective to the Documentary NZ Trust.” says Alex Lee, director of Documentary NZ Trust.
“I look forward to helping the Documentary NZ Trust meet its mission of promoting and supporting documentary filmmaking as well as creating opportunities for NZ audiences to see a wide and diverse range of local and international documentaries” says Richard Driver.
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