How does a chemical engineer make a film? Take equal parts curiosity, creativity, culture, complex subject matter and add a generous measure of comedy. Shake it up.
Abba-Rose Vaiaoga-Ioasa, scientist, lover of mathematics, and film maker sits across a table at a Grey Lynn cafe considering the question and explains that the two disciplines – film making and chemical engineering – have more in common than might appear at first glance. They are mutually enhancing rather than free radicals in a marriage of opposites.
“I was looking at moving into project management in science, which is very similar to film producing. I love engineering and science. Technology, maths. But I was talking with my brother Stallone, who’d just made his [2016] film Three Wise Cousins. He was looking for a producer for his second film Hibiscus and Ruthless and I was looking for a potential change in career. So, I quit my job. I was in Canada at the time, and I moved back home. And have been working and learning on the go ever since.”
