HowardMoses
- Director
In the 1980s ex-NZBC staffer Howard Moses produced and directed a trio of award-winning alpine films: Across the Main Divide, Incredible Mountains and Turn of the Century (a history of skiing in NZ). Winter Olympic chronicle Zimska Olimpijada won best doco at 1987's Mountainfilm in Telluride Festival. Based in Australia since 1991, Moses has worked in TV in Western Australia and the Northern Territory.
Screenography
Biography
As a child Howard Moses fell in love with ice-skating, and film. After taking on projectionist duties at his Christchurch primary school, he would go on to hold the NZ junior speed skating title, aged 14. Celluloid and snow soon became major themes. Moses did time as a ski instructor, and dabbled in filmmaking. Some of the films were shot on Super 8, mailed to Australia for processing, then screened the following Saturday night.
Awards
1987 Mountainfilm in Telluride Festival (United States)
Grand Prize - Best of Festival: Zimska Olimpijada
1986 Banff Festival of Mountains Films (Canada)
Best Film: for Across the Main Divide
“...Howard Moses went to the Sarajevo Winter Games in 1984 with one cameraman, one soundman and no money. But he brought eyes and ears for the humour and pride of the host Yugoslavs and a sense of cinematic poetry to the sports themselves. ”