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Andrew!

Yeah. Hey folks, welcome to a special bonus interview.

A few weeks after we did the episode on White Sands, I had the pleasure of speaking with

the director of White Sands,

Roger Donaldson. It's a quick interview. Hope you enjoy it. Thanks for listening.

What for you was the break or the opportunity in order to start making films in the US? Was

it the bounty? No, the break for me was really a film I made called Smash Palace.

It was film I made in New Zealand.

And to the Cannes Film Festival, I guess it was 81, I think it was.

Some American critics saw the film there and fell in love with it and started promoting me internationally

because I hadn't really stepped outside New Zealand much at that time.

And the film sort of got noticed here in America and David Brown and Richard Zannick, two US

producers, approached me about coming to America and doing a film here.

And it was a project called A Shattered Silence, written by Abingman who wrote judgment at Niroberg.

And so I came over here and started working on that project, but that went into turnaround,

never got made.

And then I met Ed Pressman, a American producer who got me to sign on to direct a sequel to Conan

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