DavidCoulson
- Editor
David Coulson trained to be a director, but instead discovered a passion for editing. He joined TV One and worked on a range of programmes including Mortimer's Patch, before going freelance in the early 80s. Since then he has won awards for his work in feature films and commercials, and established an ongoing working relationship with Niki Caro, editing all her features from Whale Rider onwards.
Screenography
Biography
David Coulson's first exposure to the movies came as a young child taken to see Swiss Family Robinson at Auckland's Civic Theatre, with its famous 'sky-at-night' ceiling. He was amazed that the rain outside wasn't falling inside. "Ever since then I have been interested, intoxicated and quite willingly taken to other places by cinema," he says.
Awards
2003 New Zealand Film Awards
Nominated for Best Editing: for Whale Rider
1996 TV Guide New Zealand Film and Televison Awards
Best Editing - Film: for Broken English
“Every day I was going to work and looking at performances by an extraordinary collection of high performing international movie actors. That was like, do you have the right stuff? Can you go from a New Zealand environment to something of this scale and pull it off?”