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Annie Goldson

New Zealand

Director

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Title/Occupation:  Director  Producer 

Gender: Female

Citizenship: New Zealand

Languages Spoken: English

Biography: Annie Goldson is a filmmaker, whose award-winning feature documentaries – which include An Island Calling, Punitive Damage, Georgie Girl, Sheilas: 28 Years On, Pacific Solution and Elgar’s Enigma – have received over 30 awards internationally at film festivals. They have also been broadcast of most major channels, including HBO, PBS, ABC, SBS, Channel 4 (UK), ARD and others. Her most recent feature documentary An Island Calling (2008), which is based around a double gay murder in Fiji recently won Best Documentary and Achievement in Camera at the Qantas Film and Television Awards. Annie was also a finalist in the Achievement in Directing category. The film premiered at Hotdocs in Toronto and screened at a number of international festivals including Sydney and Melbourne. She is also a writer, publishing in outlets such as Landfall, Screen, Semiotext(e) and Social Text. Her book Memory, Landscape, Dad and Me was published in 2006 by Victoria University Publications (Wellington) and she has another Claim to Truth in press with VDM Publishers, Germany. Annie founded the biennial New Zealand International Documentary Conference in 1996, and has been a trustee of DOCNZ, the New Zealand International Documentary Film Festival. She is currently President of the Screen Directors’ Guild of New Zealand. She received her PhD from the University of Auckland where she teaches in the Department of Film, Television and Media Studies. Annie received the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2007 as recognition for services to film. She is currently working on a science series Mismatch for international broadcast.