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LisaHough

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Lisa Hough is an Auckland-based film editor who has worked on some of New Zealand’s most beloved drama shows. Her CV includes episodes of Shortland Street, Outrageous Fortune, The Almighty Johnsons, and Go Girls. In 2006 she won an NZ Screen Award for cutting police drama Interrogation

 

Screenography

Happiness
2025 Editor Series
The Tender Trap
2021 Editor Television
This Could Go Anywhere
2020 Editor Series
Mystic
2020 - 2026 Editor Series
Mean Mums (Comedy Pilot Week)
2018 Editor Series

Biography

Lisa Hough grew up on Auckland’s North Shore. At Birkenhead Primary School, future actors Martin Henderson and Stephanie Tauvehi were a year ahead of her, and at high school her friends included future TV host and director Scott Hindman. "So a career in television was very much on my radar."

Awards

2008 Qantas Film & Television Awards
Nominated for Best Editing - Drama/Comedy Programme: for Ride With The Devil

2006 Air New Zealand Screen Awards
Achievement in Drama Editing - Television: for Interrogation

“Editing is so multi-layered. It’s that fusion between image, music, sound, technical stuff and emotions; all to serve the story.”

Lisa Hough