Annie Goldson has been producing and directing award-winning documentaries, docudramas and experimental film/video for 25 years in the United States and New Zealand. Her best-known titles include PUNITIVE DAMAGE, GEORGIE GIRL, ELGAR’S ENIGMA, AN ISLAND CALLING and BROTHER NUMBER ONE.
All titles have also garnered major awards at international film festivals and have screened widely throughout broadcast outlets, including PBS, ADR, HBO, Channel 4 and Canalplus and through educational institutions.
She produced and directed her current film HE TOKI HUNA (THE HIDDEN ADZE), which explores New Zealand’s role in Afghanistan, with Kay Ellmers from Tumanako Productions. HE TOKI was commissioned by Maori Television that aired a broadcast version the day before ANZAC Day 2013. Annie has just completed editing a feature version which is screening at the current New Zealand International Film Festival. She has just returned from a shoot in Tonga where she is in development on an historical docudrama, William Mariner, that she is producing with Rebekah Kelly and Nikki Mariner.
Annie is also a writer and has published articles in books and journals such as The Listener (NZ), Landfall, Screen, Semiotext(e), Social Text, and others. Her book Landscape, Memory, Dad and Me published by Victoria University Publications. Annie has also been director of the biennial New Zealand International Documentary Conference that has run since 1996, is a trustee of the New Zealand International Documentary Festival, DocEdge and was the President of the Screen Directors’ Guild of New Zealand for three years.
She received her PhD in Film and Television Studies from The University of Auckland and is currently a Professor at the Department of Film, Television and Media Studies at that institution. In 2006 she received an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit (ONZM) for services to film.
For more information about Annie’s films:
www.op.co.nz
www.brothernumberone.co.nz
www.nzinafghanistan.com
Workshop: Documentary with Annie Goldson
