CushlaDillon
- Editor
Self-taught editor Cushla Dillon moved from shorter works to features with Harry Sinclair's Topless Women Talk about their Lives: both the bite-sized TV series then the movie, for which she won her first NZ film award. Dillon has gone on to edit shorts, documentaries, and many more features — including The Price of Milk, The Mountain, award-winning documentary This Way of Life, and music documentary King Loser.
Screenography
Biography
Cushla Dillon tried varied backroom jobs across radio, stage and screen before discovering editing was what most excited her. Initially hoping to become a sound engineer, Dillon did time in radio after leaving school, then later joined Theatre Corporate in Auckland as a stage manager/sound designer. A viewing of Andrei Tarkovsky sci fi classic Stalker opened her eyes to the potential of film.
Awards
2023 New Zealand Television Awards/Ngā Taonga Whakaata O Aotearoa
Nominated for Best Editing: Documentary or Factual: for No Māori Allowed
2018 Huawei Mate20 New Zealand Television Awards
Best Editing - Drama (shared with Paul Maxwell): for Wanted, series 2
“Cushla’s been very influential on the whole style of Topless. I guess in a way Topless has partly evolved out of me trying to make things that Cushla wants to watch!”