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. In 2002 she won the John O'Shea Film Award for the best New Zealand short film by a New Zealand director residing abroad.

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. She began her film career directing a series of international arts documentaries for the Channel 4 Television series ‘Rear Window’. 2018 Lift Share Director Winner, Best Sound Design, Underwire Film Festival, 2018 2016 We Are All Migrants 2009 My Dangerous Loverboy Director Writer Winner, National Film Board of Canada Cross Media Challenge Award, 2008 2008 Little Lost David: Devil Don't Mind Director Writer 2005 Point Annihilation Director Co-screenwriter 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 1998 Deep Freeze Director Screenplay 1997 Songs from the Golden City Director 1993 Getting to the Point Editor 1992 Carlo Levi Stopped Here Director Looking Both Ways: Berlin-istanbul 1991 The Crusade through Arab Eyes Editor 1989 Diamonds in Brown Paper Editor 1988 Perfect Image? Editor Hell to Pay 1986 The Passion of Remembrance 1985 Pandora's Box Director Screenplay

Editor 1984 Deptford Wives Director On the Top Director Photographic Exhibits Editor Council Matters Editor Lives of Artists Not Wives of Artists: Women's Art Practice since 1970 Editor 1983 Talking History Editor 1978 Lorette Editor Dubbing