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Michael Firth’s debut feature, 70s ski movie Off the Edge, was the first New Zealand feature to be nominated for an Academy Award. Noted American critic Andrew Sarris praised Firth's 1985 movie, Sylvia, based on legendary Kiwi teacher Sylvia Ashton-Warner, as one of the best films released that year.
This is a movie of eloquent dialogue and even more eloquent silences; of wonderful faces that tell whole worlds in a glance, a pause, a kiss in the rain. Of such are the glories of cinema made.
– American critic Molly Haskell, reviewing Firth's feature Sylvia in Vogue magazine
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Camera |
2010 |
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Sylvia |
Sound |
2003 |
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Adrenalize |
Producer |
1999 - 2001 |
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Vulcan Lane |
Producer |
1994 |
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Director |
1987 |
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Director |
1985 |
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Heart of the Stag |
Director |
1984 |
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Director |
1977 |
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1977 Academy Awards
Nominated for Best Feature Documentary: for Off the Edge