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]