Virginia K. Heath (born 1959) is a UK-based New Zealand film director and academic; she is a professor of film at Sheffield Hallam University.[1][2] In 2002 she won the John O'Shea Film Award for the best New Zealand short film by a New Zealand director residing abroad.[3]
Biography
Heath was born in Havelock North, in the North Island of New Zealand. She studied film at Saint Martin's School of Art in London, England, in 1985 and 1986.[4] She began her film career directing a series of international arts documentaries for the Channel 4 Television series ‘Rear Window’.[2]
Heath was commissioned by the United Kingdom Human Trafficking Centre to create a film to highlight the issue of human trafficking. She carried out interviews with exploited girls and women, and frontline agency workers, and created the film My Dangerous Loverboy. A website and social media channels were later added to aid increased engagement with the film, and the overall project won a cross media award from the National Film Board of Canada and was nominated for a Royal Television Society Award. The film is extensively used in schools and youth centres, and with frontline agency workers across the United Kingdom.[5]
Heath was also commissioned by Creative Scotland and the BBC to create a film for the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games. The resulting film, From Scotland with Love, combined film with live music created by King Creosote and was nominated for a BAFTA Scotland award.[2]
Filmography
Year
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Title
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Role
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Nominations and awards
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Notes
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2019
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Three Chords and the Truth
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Director
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[2][6]
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2018
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Lift Share
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Director
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Winner, Best Sound Design, Underwire Film Festival, 2018
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[2][7][8]
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2016
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We Are All Migrants
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[2]
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2014
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A Century in Film: from Scotland with Love
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Director
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Nominated for Best Feature Documentary, BAFTA Scotland, 2014
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[9]
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2009
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My Dangerous Loverboy
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Director
Writer
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Winner, National Film Board of Canada Cross Media Challenge Award, 2008
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[5][10]
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2008
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Little Lost David: Devil Don't Mind
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Director
Writer
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[11]
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2005
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Point Annihilation
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Director
Co-screenwriter
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[12]
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2001
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Relativity
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Director
Screenplay
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Winner, Best Short Film, Berlin International Film Festival, 2002
Winner, John O'Shea Film Award at New Zealand Drifting Clouds Film Festival, 2002
Nominated for European Film Academy Awards, 2002
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[3][13]
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1998
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Deep Freeze
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Director
Screenplay
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[14]
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1997
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Songs from the Golden City
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Director
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[15]
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1993
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Getting to the Point
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Editor
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[16]
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1992
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Carlo Levi Stopped Here
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Director
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[17]
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Looking Both Ways: Berlin-istanbul
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|
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[18]
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1991
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The Crusade through Arab Eyes
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Editor
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[19]
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1989
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Diamonds in Brown Paper
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Editor
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[20]
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1988
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Perfect Image?
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Editor
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[21]
|
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Hell to Pay
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|
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[22]
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1986
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The Passion of Remembrance
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|
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[23]
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1985
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Pandora's Box
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Director
Screenplay
Editor
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[24]
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1984
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Deptford Wives
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Director
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[25]
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On the Top
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Director
|
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[26]
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Photographic Exhibits
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Editor
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[27]
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Council Matters
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Editor
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[28]
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Lives of Artists Not Wives of Artists: Women's Art Practice since 1970
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Editor
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[29]
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1983
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Talking History
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Editor
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[30]
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1978
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Lorette
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Editor
Dubbing
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[31]
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References