Occasional Productions
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Communications or Media |
| Occupation | filmmaker |
| Location | New Zealand |
| Introduction | Annie Goldson is a filmmaker, whose award-winning documentaries which include An Island calling, Punitive Damage, Georgie Girl, Sheilas: 28 Years On, Pacific Solution and Elgar's Enigma -- show widely through international film festivals and broadcast, and through activist and educational networks. She is also a writer, publishing in outlets such as Landfall, Screen, Semiotext(e) and Social Text. Her book Memory, Landscape, Dad and Me was published in 2006 and she has another on human rights and documentary contracted with Temple University Press. Annie founded the biennial New Zealand International Documentary Conference in 1996, is a trustee of DOCNZ, the New Zealand International Documentary Film Festival. She is currently President of the Screen Directors' Guild of New Zealand. She received her PhD from the University of Auckland where she teaches in the Department of Film, Television and Media Studies. She received the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2007 as recognition for services to film. |