DeanCornish
- Director
- Producer
- Camera
Dean Cornish has interviewed elderly Japanese cheerleaders, been embedded with the NBA, and trusted by American celebrities to tell their stories. Trained at Christchurch's NZ Broadcasting School, he has worked in 90+ countries and crafted a reputation as a go-to guy for travel stories. En route Cornish has won awards for his reports for Australian television, music show Making Tracks and Intrepid Journeys.
Screenography
Biography
If there is a New Zealand filmmaker whose screen career embodies the great Kiwi OE, it's Dean Cornish: the director, producer and cameraman has worked in more than 90 countries.
Christchurch-raised, he studied journalism at the New Zealand Broadcasting School, and cut his screen teeth working in children’s television. Cornish was a reporter for environmental show Get Real and spent time as a presenter on Squirt and kids' TV staple What Now?. The latter show offered up "a free-flowing and creative environment that allowed me to try my hand at directing, writing, presenting...the lot if you wanted".
Awards
2024 New Zealand Television Awards / Ngā Taonga Whakaata O Aotearoa
Nominated for Best Camerawork - Documentary or Factual (with Mark Russell): for Troy Kingi's Desert Hīkoi
“I don't think of things that way.”