Alun bollinger biography for kids

Since the 1960s, Alun Bollinger has worked with almost every significant Kiwi movie director: among them Geoff Murphy, Ian Mune, Gaylene Preston, Vincent Ward, Roger Donaldson, Peter Jackson and Jane Campion.

Aged 18, Bollinger joined the NZ Broadcasting Corporation as a trainee cameraman.

He developed his craft shooting on 16mm for news and current affairs shows. Outside of work hours, he was also making films with teacher and musician Geoff Murphy.

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Bollinger even appeared in short film The Box, as a pop star pursued by fans. The closing shot showed a van with the name The Acme Sausage Company. Murphy decided it would make a great name for his film company; Bollinger liked the fact that ASC also happened to be the initials of the American Society of Cinematographers.

Later Bollinger and his family would spend time living in Hawke's Bay, in what he called “a communal set-up with a film connection, with people like Bruno Lawrence, Martyn Sanderson, Geoff Mur