RussellCampbell
- Academic
- Director
Russell Campbell has been analysing film and television for more than four decades. A longtime lecturer in film at Victoria University, Campbell’s books include Observations, a volume on New Zealand documentary — a field in which he has extensive first-hand experience.
Screenography
Biography
Russell Campbell's name is known to a veritable roll call of Kiwi talents, from Simon Bennett (Outrageous Fortune) to writers David Geary and Elizabeth Knox. The roll call derives from 30 years of lecturing film at Victoria University. But Campbell's career encompasses many angles on film: as director, critic, cameraman, and bureaucrat (as the NZ Film Commission's first project officer in 1979, he helped handle funding applications, but left partly "because it was gut-wrenching writing rejection letters").
Awards
2005 Media Peace Award
For Sedition
1986 National Mutual Gofta Awards
Nominated for Best Documentary: Islands of the Empire
1985 Media Peace Award
For Islands of the Empire
“For the future, I look to films that employ the energy and imagination [Hamish] Keith speaks of to describe our country accurately, pitilessly: that delight in beauty and achievement, but bear witness too to cruelty and injustice ...”