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Though Michael Heath helped create a run of pioneering examples of the Kiwi cinema of unease, his contributions to our culture resist easy categorisation. Heath’s scripts include many films which have made a comfortable home between genres: children’s vampire tale Moonrise/Grampire, nostalgic Ronald Hugh Morrieson chiller The Scarecrow, Heath’s work with director Tony Williams, and his acclaimed song-cycle A Small Life.
He has rebelled against constraints on self-expression ...The products of his personal resistance movement are plays and scripts which are surreal, or strange, or deeply moving, or funny, or all of those.
– Writer Merrill Coke, in a 1987 Listener profile
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Associate Producer |
2010 |
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Waiting for You |
Writer |
2008 |
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Director |
2007 |
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Transfigured Nights |
Producer |
2007 |
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A Long Lost Season |
Subject |
2004 |
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Bound for Pleasure |
Co-Producer |
2004 |
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A Small Life |
Director |
2000 |
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Between Two Worlds |
Director |
1996 |
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Writer |
1992 |
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Just Me & Mario |
Writer |
1989 |
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Maple on the Hill |
Writer |
1988 |
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Opera in the Outback |
Writer |
1988 |
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Writer |
1984 |
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Writer |
1982 |
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Writer |
1981 |
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Interviewer |
1975 |
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Actor |
1972 |
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Interviewer |
1971 |
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Survey: The Day We Landed On The Most Perfect Planet In The Universe |
Actor |
1971 |
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The Beaconsfield Films |
Co-Director |
1967 |
The titles listed here may not reflect this person's full screenography. These are only the titles that are included in or referenced by this site.
2002 Kara Film Festival (Pakistan)
Best Film, Best Director and Best Screenplay: for A Small Life
2002 Avanca International Meeting of Cinema, TV, Video & Multimedia (Portugal)
Special Mention: A Small Life
2000 Seoul Net Digital Film Festival (South Korea)
Grand Prize Senef: for A Small Life
1987 - Downstage Writers in Residence Award
1984 Festival International de Paris du Film Fantastique et de Science Fiction
Golden Unicorn (Grand Prize): Death Warmed Up
1983 Mystfest (Italy)
Special Mention: Next of Kin
1982 Sitges Fantastic Film Festival (Festival Internacional de Cinema Fantastic de Catalunya)
Best Film: Next of Kin
1979 - (Inaugural) ICA Writer's Award