Jim Booth

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Nationality: New Zealander
Birthdate: 00/00/1945
Birthplace: New Zealand
Death Date: 01/04/1994

biography

New Zealand producer who established the New Zealand Film Commission (NZFC), which he directed from 1983-88, before seguing into his own carnivalesque mode of production. Booth formed a partnership with film director Peter Jackson after encouraging the NZFC to back Jackson's "Bad Taste" (1987), a comedy about alien cannibals who are fast-food entrepreneurs. Booth became "Kiwi King" of low to no-budget fare after leaving the NZFC, turning out three other features which displayed feral wit: "Meet the Feebles" (1990) which featured puppets trying to make it in showbiz; the awesomely bloody cult Continued

Credits

Producer
1993
Producer

milestones

Year
Milestone
1983 
Established New Zealand Film Commision (NZFC) and became executive director
1987 
Began working with director Peter Jackson when the NZFC funded Jackson's debut film, "Bad Taste"
1990 
Debut as producer, "Meet the Freebles"
1994 
Last film produced, "Heavenly Creatures"

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