Lunch with … Steven O’Meagher: Terminally ill filmmaker on a life in storytelling and why New Zealand hasn’t had a top movie in eight years [paywalled]

One of our most successful film and television producers has terminal cancer. In a candid – sometimes scathing – interview over lunch, Steven O’Meagher opens up on an ‘arrogant’ NZ Film Commission, the lack of a hit NZ movie in eight years – and his outlook on life.

Steven O’Meagher is a storyteller who is navigating – and narrating, over lunch – a devastating and personal plot twist.

The man responsible for bringing to the silver screen the stories of some of our most infamous cases – the Aramoana massacre, the Louise Nicholas police rape case – and a series of successful TV dramas is ill, with terminal cancer.

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