KirstyCameron
- Director
- Production designer
- Costume designer
Kirsty Cameron started in short film and art installation, before costume designing the first of around 20 feature films — including the acclaimed Whale Rider, The Orator , Slow West, and No. 2. Her list of awards also includes The Orator and TV movie Jean, about aviator Jean Batten. Cameron's third short as writer/ director, teen fable The Lethal Innocents, was invited to festivals in Sweden, Germany and the USA.
Screenography
Biography
Kirsty Cameron has designed costumes for vampires, a Samoan dwarf, Katherine Mansfield and a whale-riding girl. Best known for her work on a run of acclaimed films, she also writes and directs her own — films she hopes have “resonance and gravity”, which have been invited to festivals in Europe, Aotearoa and the United States.
Awards
2018 WIFT NZ Awards (Women in Film and Television New Zealand)
Nominated for Award for Achievement in Film: for Jean and The Rehearsal
2017 New Zealand Television Awards
Best Costume Design: for Jean
“I fell in love with arthouse film-making, with storytelling and the cinematic vision, and with how bringing a character to life requires working on both subconscious and conscious levels.”