SwamiHansa
- Cinematographer
Swami Hansa (sometimes credited as Anand Hansa or Malcolm Nish) was operating a camera in 1962, the day TV began broadcasting in Dunedin. Hansa has been shooting ever since, his work ranging across natural history, human interest and the arts. His CV includes many episodes of the long-running Heartland, plus such noted docos as Birth, Kiwi - A Natural History and Horizon doco The Man Who Moved Mountains, made for the BBC.
Screenography
2018 Cinematographer Television
2012 Cinematographer Film
2012 Camera Television
2010 Subject Television
2010 Subject Television
Awards
2002 TV Guide New Zealand Television Awards
Nominated for Best Camera - Non-Drama: for Kiwi Buddha
“The thing I like about documentary filming is the dance that happens between people I'm filming, and myself with the camera. That's the magic...what happens when the mind stops and the play of energies come together. ”
— Swami Hansa