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AnnieGoldson

  • Director
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Annie Goldson, NZOM, is probably New Zealand's most awarded documentary filmmaker. Her work — including the feature-length An Island Calling, Brother Number One and Kim Dotcom: Caught in the Web — often examines the political through the personal. Goldson's films have played widely overseas, and won awards in New Zealand, England, Spain, France, the Philippines and the United States.

Screenography

Red Mole: A Romance
2023 Editor, Director, Producer, Sound Recordist Film
A Mild Touch of Cancer
2021 Director, Writer, Producer, Additional Editing Film
The Eruption: Stories of Survival
2020 Producer, Sound Recordist Television
Kim Dotcom: Caught in the Web
2017 Writer, Co-Producer, Director Film
He Toki Huna: New Zealand in Afghanistan
2013 Writer, Co-Director, Editor, Producer Film

Biography

Director Annie Goldson has argued that she "never really had a grand plan in life", but fell into documentary making. "I always try to avoid giving career talks because I'm still not sure about how it came about". Over 20 years Goldson has won an exhausting string of national and international awards for her documentary work, work in which the personal and the political often intersect.

Awards

2022 New Zealand Television Awards
Nominated for Best Documentary : for A Mild Touch of Cancer
Best Editing - Documentary/Factual (shared with Julie Alp and Prisca Bouchet): for A Mild Touch of Cancer

“The trick in documentary it seems to me is how to provide historical context without oversimplification of history, while sustaining the narrative momentum of the personal story.”

— Annie Goldson, in an interview with Listener writer David Larsen, 8 July 2011