Virginia Heath is a multi award winning director with New Zealand and UK nationality. Her short film Relativity (10') won 'Best Short Film' at the Berlin International Film Festival, 2002 and was nominated for the European Film Academy Awards.
She then won 'Best Film' at the Drifting Clouds International Film Festival in New Zealand.
She directed Point Annihilation (30') in her native New Zealand starring Bruce Hopkins (Gamling in 'Lord of the Rings'), co-produced with Peter Jackson's companies, Weta Digital and Park Road Post.
Point Annihilation screened at the Cannes Film Festival 2005 in 'Cinema des Antipodes', and was selected by
i-Tunes, USA, as one of 3 British shorts to pilot the
i-Tunes film download site.
Virginia currently has a slate of five feature film projects in development (see below) including a New Zealand-UK co-production, the noir thriller, Pania, developed by the New Zealand Film Commission and the MEDIA programme of the European Union, Hades Bridge, Dogboys, Love Is Like Vengeance and Mystery Ride. She has also won two mini MELT awards to develop innovative projects around cross platform narrative and performance.
Her first short Deep Freeze (15’) was shown at festivals including London, The Hamptons, Foyle, & New Zealand. Virginia began her career in film as an editor and then moved into directing arts documentaries for Channel 4 TV including Songs from the Golden City on South African jazz heroes, The Manhattan Brothers. Her fiction films explore the themes of sex, love, power, death and desire.
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Current Feature Film Projects Hades Bridge
Tommy Jackson, a young drifter trying to escape his guilty past, is lured into a dangerous ritualistic game by the mysterious, alluring Hana Wilding, the woman who'll either be the love of his life or the end of it.Psychological thriller set in Hades Bridge, a twisted world of surreal Brit - Americana, controlled by a charismatic self made 'Sheriff ' where there's only one rule . there are no rules. Pania ...love leads you into deep water...
Pania is a stylish neo-noir thriller / love story set in 1930's New Zealand. Two lovers, a disgraced English journalist and a mysterious Maori woman jazz singer, investigate a disputed Maori land claim only to become fatally entangled in a web of passion, political corruption and murder. Developed with support from the MEDIA programme of the European Union, The New Zealand Film Commission, Channel Four Television, the London Production Fund, the British Film Institute, Northern Film and Media. Love Is Like Vengeance
Revenge/road movie with a twist. Maya, a seemingly innocent young East European woman, is lured into becoming a sex slave by Ray, an older English man. But secretly, Maya is on a dangerous mission for revenge and entices Ray to her cause by gradually revealing the shocking truth of her nightmare past. A powerful and intimate relationship between captor and captive that questions who is enticing whom and where does power really reside?
Mystery Ride
Contemporary psychological thriller set on the central desert plateau in New Zealand. A young hitchhiker, Donna Marlowe, goes missing on the day of Kate McGregor's wedding. Twenty years later, facing a crisis in her marriage, Kate goes in search of Donna, only to fall for Ray, one of the suspects in her kidnapping. Dogboys
Lo fi Sci fi movie set in the near future. In a desolate, puritanical world where pleasure has been outlawed, a group of teenage girls in search of kicks are lured by ‘lover boys’ into the secret Paradise club, only to discover the shocking consequences of nanotechnology gone horribly wrong.
Selected Credits
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Film Clips Point Annihilation trailer for iTunes
Showreel available from virginiaheath@aol.com Film Posters     
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