DOCNZ: Documentary New Zealand Trust
The Documentary New Zealand Trust Advisory Board advises on DOCNZ, it’s purpose, and it’s future. The Advisory Board is composed of distinguished and knowledgeable film professionals from all over the world.
The Advisor Board guides and supports the DOCNZ Board in meeting its aspirations. The Advisors are ambassadors of DOCNZ and promote and expand the sphere of influence of the DOCNZ. They are primary partners of the DOCNZ’s strategy.
Annie Goldson
Annie Goldson has been producing and directing award-winning documentaries, docudramas and experimental film/video for 20 years in the United States and New Zealand. Her recent titles include Punitive Damage, released in cinemas in 1999 (major broadcast sales include HBO-Cinemax, ABC-Aust, ARD (Germany), WTN (Canada) and TVNZ) and Georgie Girl, released in 2002 (sales to Channel 4 (UK), POV (PBS), CBC, SBS, Canalplus and TVNZ). Both titles have also garnered major awards in film festivals (see details below).In 2004, Annie completed Sheilas: 28 Years On, a history of second-wave feminism in New Zealand which she directed with Dawn Hutchesson and recently produced Pacific Solution: From Afghanistan to Aotearoa which won runner-up Best Documentary at the inaugural Documentary Film Festival and will be broadcast on TVNZ later this year.
She is currently producing and directing a music/World War 1 documentary, Elgar’s Enigma, for TVNZ’s Artsville. Goldson is also a writer and has published articles in books and journals such as The Listener (NZ), Landfall, Screen, Semiotext(e), Social Text, and others. She received a Marsden grant from the Royal Society of New Zealand to complete a book on human rights documentary, After the Fact: Documentary, Human Rights and International Law, which is now under contract with Temple University Press.
Annie has also been director of the biannual New Zealand International Documentary Conference held at the University of Auckland in 1996, 1998 and 2000, and she was part of the organising committee of the recent event, Expanding Documentary (2002). She received her PhD in Film and Television Studies from the University of Auckland and is currently Associate Professor at the Department of Film, Television and Media Studies at that institution.