RozMason
- Director
Director Roz Mason has three decades worth of credits on television documentaries and TV series. She cut her screen teeth on TVNZ staples like Fair Go, Kaleidoscope and Crimewatch, before going freelance in the 90s. Subjects Mason has directed range from poets, drama students and assault survivors, to shipwrecks and sword swallowers — plus orangutans and pandas for company NHNZ.
Screenography
Biography
Roz Mason grew up in the rural South Waikato. After Selwyn College and a Drama Diploma from Auckland University, she "talked her way into" a job at TVNZ in 1988. The NZ International Arts Festival was on. "Much of that was televised, so I got to observe directing in many forms, a great deal of which involved men in control rooms bellowing over comms, flanked by women – producer's assistants and vision mixers – who seemed to be quietly making things happen."
“These days, a lot of my time is spent on Country Calendar. All thoughts of artifice and stylistic innovation are subsumed by what is surely the heart of the matter, simple, unadorned story-telling. In, out, simple, fast, honest. I bloody love it. Did I mention, I can’t believe I get paid for this?”