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Michael Heath

Writer, Director, Producer

 Michael Heath

 Michael Heath
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Michael Heath

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. 
 
 

Screenography

Screenography
 Role/s
 Wound

Wound

Associate Producer

2010

 Waiting for You

Waiting for You

Writer

2008

 Edith Collier: A Light Among Shadows

Edith Collier: A Light Among Shadows

Director
Writer
Narrator

2007

 Transfigured Nights

Transfigured Nights

Producer

2007

 A Long Lost Season

A Long Lost Season

Subject

2004

 Bound for Pleasure

Bound for Pleasure

Co-Producer

2004

 A Small Life

A Small Life

Director
Writer

2000

 Between Two Worlds

Between Two Worlds

Director

1996

 Moonrise (aka Grampire)

Moonrise (aka Grampire)

Writer
2nd Unit Director

1992

 Just Me & Mario

Just Me & Mario

Writer

1989

 Maple on the Hill

Maple on the Hill

Writer

1988

 Opera in the Outback

Opera in the Outback

Writer
2nd Unit Director

1988

 Death Warmed Up

Death Warmed Up

Writer

1984

 Next of Kin

Next of Kin

Writer

1982

 The Scarecrow

The Scarecrow

Writer

1981

 Lost in the Garden of the World

Lost in the Garden of the World

Interviewer

1975

 Survey: The Unbelievable Glory of the Human Voice

Survey: The Unbelievable Glory of the Human Voice

Actor

1972

 Survey: Getting Together

Survey: Getting Together

Interviewer

1971

 Survey: The Day We Landed On The Most Perfect Planet In The Universe

Survey: The Day We Landed On The Most Perfect Planet In The Universe

Actor

1971

 The Beaconsfield Films

The Beaconsfield Films

Co-Director
Writer
Actor

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.

Awards

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