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Michael Firth

Director

 Michael Firth

 Michael Firth
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Michael Firth

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. 
 
 

Screenography

Screenography
 Role/s
 Last Paradise

Last Paradise

Camera

2010

 Sylvia

Sylvia

Sound

2003

 Adrenalize

Adrenalize

Producer

1999 - 2001

 Vulcan Lane

Vulcan Lane

Producer
Director

1994

 The Leading Edge

The Leading Edge

Director
Writer
Camera
Producer

1987

 Sylvia

Sylvia

Director
Producer
Writer

1985

 Heart of the Stag

Heart of the Stag

Director
Producer
Writer

1984

 Off the Edge

Off the Edge

Director
Producer
Camera

1977


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Awards

1977 Academy Awards
Nominated for Best Feature Documentary: for Off the Edge