Virginia Heath

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 Title Role Nominations and awards Notes
2019 Three Chords and the Truth Director [2][6]
2018 Lift Share Director Winner, Best Sound Design, Underwire Film Festival, 2018 [2][7][8]
2016 We Are All Migrants [2]
2014 A Century in Film: from Scotland with Love Director Nominated for Best Feature Documentary, BAFTA Scotland, 2014 [9]
2009 My Dangerous Loverboy Director

Writer

 Winner, National Film Board of Canada Cross Media Challenge Award, 2008 [5][10]
2008 Little Lost David: Devil Don't Mind Director

Writer

 [11]
2005 Point Annihilation Director

Co-screenwriter

 [12]
2001 Relativity Director

Screenplay

 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

 [3][13]
1998 Deep Freeze Director

Screenplay

 [14]
1997 Songs from the Golden City Director [15]
1993 Getting to the Point Editor [16]
1992 Carlo Levi Stopped Here Director [17]
Looking Both Ways: Berlin-istanbul [18]
1991 The Crusade through Arab Eyes Editor [19]
1989 Diamonds in Brown Paper Editor [20]
1988 Perfect Image? Editor [21]
Hell to Pay [22]
1986 The Passion of Remembrance [23]
1985 Pandora's Box Director

Screenplay

Editor

 [24]
1984 Deptford Wives Director [25]
On the Top Director [26]
Photographic Exhibits Editor [27]
Council Matters Editor [28]
Lives of Artists Not Wives of Artists: Women's Art Practice since 1970 Editor [29]
1983 Talking History Editor [30]
1978 Lorette Editor

Dubbing

 [31]

References
  1. "Amy Winehouse doco, Dope coming to film fest". NZ Herald. 4 June 2015. ISSN 1170-0777. Retrieved 11 April 2020.
  2. "Virginia Heath | Sheffield Hallam University". www.shu.ac.uk. Retrieved 11 April 2020.
  3. "The John O'Shea Film Award for best NZ short film". The Big Idea. 10 August 2005. Retrieved 11 April 2020.
  4. "RELATIVITY" (PDF). www.berlinale.de. 17 December 2019. Archived (PDF) from the original on 17 December 2019. Retrieved 11 April 2020.
  5. "My Dangerous Loverboy | Sheffield Hallam University". www.shu.ac.uk. Retrieved 11 April 2020.
  6. "Three Chords and the Truth | Faction North". www.factionnorth.com. Retrieved 11 April 2020.
  7. "Lift Share | Faction North". www.factionnorth.com. Retrieved 11 April 2020.
  8. "LIFT SHARE (2018)". STELLA HEATH KEIR. Retrieved 11 April 2020.
  9. "From Scotland With Love | Faction North". www.factionnorth.com. Retrieved 11 April 2020.
  10. "My Dangerous Loverboy | Faction North". www.factionnorth.com. Retrieved 11 April 2020.
  11. "Little Lost David: Devil Don't Mind | Sheffield Hallam University". www.shu.ac.uk. Retrieved 11 April 2020.
  12. "British Council Film: Point Annihilation". film-directory.britishcouncil.org. Retrieved 11 April 2020.
  13. "Relativity | Sheffield Hallam University". www.shu.ac.uk. Retrieved 11 April 2020.
  14. "Deep Freeze | Faction North". www.factionnorth.com. Retrieved 11 April 2020.
  15. "Songs From the Golden City | Faction North". www.factionnorth.com. Retrieved 11 April 2020.
  16. "Getting to the Point (1993)". BFI. Archived from the original on 12 November 2019. Retrieved 11 April 2020.
  17. "Carlo Levi Stopped Here (1992)". BFI. Archived from the original on 11 April 2020. Retrieved 11 April 2020.
  18. "Looking Both Ways: Berlin-istanbul (1992)". BFI. Archived from the original on 11 April 2020. Retrieved 11 April 2020.
  19. "The Crusade through Arab Eyes (1991)". BFI. Archived from the original on 11 April 2020. Retrieved 11 April 2020.
  20. "Diamonds in Brown Paper (1989)". BFI. Archived from the original on 11 April 2020. Retrieved 11 April 2020.
  21. "Perfect Image? (1988)". BFI. Archived from the original on 11 April 2020. Retrieved 11 April 2020.
  22. "Hell to Pay (1988)". BFI. Archived from the original on 11 April 2020. Retrieved 11 April 2020.
  23. "The Passion of Remembrance". BFI. Archived from the original on 12 May 2016. Retrieved 11 April 2020.
  24. "Pandora's Box (1985)". BFI. Archived from the original on 3 December 2018. Retrieved 11 April 2020.
  25. "Deptford Wives (1984)". BFI. Archived from the original on 25 June 2017. Retrieved 11 April 2020.
  26. "On the Top (1984)". BFI. Archived from the original on 11 April 2020. Retrieved 11 April 2020.
  27. "Photographic Exhibits (1984)". BFI. Archived from the original on 11 April 2020. Retrieved 11 April 2020.
  28. "Council Matters (1984)". BFI. Archived from the original on 11 April 2020. Retrieved 11 April 2020.
  29. "Lives of Artists Not Wives of Artists: Women's Art Practice since 1970 (1984)". BFI. Archived from the original on 11 April 2020. Retrieved 11 April 2020.
  30. "Talking History (1983)". BFI. Archived from the original on 11 April 2020. Retrieved 11 April 2020.
  31. "Lorette (1978)". BFI. Archived from the original on 11 April 2020. Retrieved 11 April 2020.
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