1. 28/04/2011
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN
I am a company director and producer with Film and TelevisionProduction Company, Inkubator
Ltd. I also hold a part time positionas Head of Documentary at South Seas Film Televisionand
Animation School. Iwrite this reference from both positions and with unqualified certainty in the
ability of the young personI recommend to you – Sarah Graham Read. Sarah was a student in
Documentary at South Seas Lastyear and sincegraduating shehas been workingwith myself and
Inkubator onthe development of her graduate documentary for broadcast release.
Seldom doI get a student with Sarah's level of passion and commitment.
Her unstoppable readiness tolearn, her conviction, initiative, research, drive and pro-activity along with
her outstanding work ethic, convinced South Seas to break production parameters and allow her to shoot
her final documentary,Varayame's Feet', in Fiji. The finalproduct is impressive and gained broadcast
commitments from TV3 60 Minutes, TVNZ’S, Tangata Pasifika, Sunday and Close Up programmers and Sky
Television Documentary Channel.
Sarah went on to pitch ‘Varayame’s Feet’ with confidence at the 2011 Documentary Edge Festival where
TVNZ and NewZealand On Air picked it up for the TV One Documentary strand. The longer documentary is
now in fully funded production with Sarah as the talent and guiding spirit behind the story. This has
required some difficult changes in direction and she has remained gracious and supportive throughout– a
total professional on all counts.
Sarah has great ideas, to which she brings a background in fine arts and architecture, a creative appreciation
of camera and editing, a sound understanding of narrative and story and advanced technicalskills in design
and digital marketing. She also has enormous networks of creative talent that she can drawon for support
in digital marketing and production.
More importantly she has an uncanny knack of convincing high profile people to support her causes and
never misses a beat in her follow through and attention to requirements and detail.
How many people could convince top reconstructive surgeons and orthopedics to help a young Fijian Boy
pro bono? How many could get an Australasian based MedicalAid group to ‘bend’ their criteria and allow
the young boy into their programme as her insistence?
Sarah has been ill for a period and this has interrupted her work history. But this has not stopped her
driving the projects she believes in with formidable force and consistency. She has unlimited talents that
she is burning to put to good use in the humanitarian fields. And above all she is collaborative.
She will be an invaluable asset to any company lucky enough to secure her many talents. And she will learn
and develop quickly into a true professional at whatever tasks she takes on.
She is, quite simply, an extraordinary young woman and the most outstanding documentary student I have
taught.
If you have any queries please don’t hesitate to call me.
Paula Jones
PRODUCER
INKUBATORLTD
Inkubator Ltd: 1/114-116 PonsonbyRd, Auckland. P.O. Box 90943, AMSO, Auckland 1142 Tel 00649 3600222
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