Heath Cozens
Credits
| Year | Job Title Project Type |
Project Name Director / Company |
Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 |
Director/ Producer
Television |
Family Strong Heath Cozens / Fluent Productions |
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| 2019 |
Co-director and Cinematographer
Television |
Only I Can Hear (Canada/ Japan) Itaru Matsui / Temjin/ NHK |
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| 2018 |
Editor
Commercials & Industrials |
Untitled internal video series (Japanese/ English) David Sherman / Google |
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| 2017 |
Co-director/ Editor
Television |
The River Dragon Kyle Wullschleger / The River Dragon Inc |
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| 2016 |
Director
Commercials & Industrials |
Recipe Book (India) Heath Cozens / Google/ Storybox Films |
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| 2015 |
Director, Cinematographer, Editor
Film |
Doglegs Heath Cozens / Invincible Heart LLC |
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| 2014 |
Director
Commercials & Industrials |
Livox (Brazil) Heath Cozens / Google/ Storybox Films |
Education
| Year | Qualification | Where |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | BA in Film Criticism | Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand |
Equipment
My Equipment/Kit: Audio kit (Sound Devices Mix Pre II, Sennheisers x 4, mics, etc), Canon C100 (x2), Canon zooms, Voigtlander primes, vintage Contax-Zeiss primes, Lighting Kit / Lights, Panasonic Gh5, S1H (Netflix-approved Panasonic full-frame camera)
I can use: Audio Kit (Sound Devices Mix Pre Ii, Sennheisers X 4, Mics, Etc), Canon C100 (X2), Canon Zooms, Voigtlander Primes, Vintage Contax-Zeiss Primes, S1H (Netflix-Approved Panasonic Full-Frame Camera), Panasonic Gh5, Lighting Kit / Lights
About me
Heath Cozens is an award-winning filmmaker who shoots, directs, and edits.Originally from New Zealand, he studied film at Victoria University, and worked in the local production industry before moved to Japan in 1996. Attaining fluency in the language, he produced a weekly bilingual current affairs radio show, produced shoots and commercials, shot and directed feature documentaries and edited in-house broadcast news.
As a shooter-director, he's produced branded content for global brands such as Canon, Levis, Nike, and Google.
Since 2013, Heath has worked out of NYC, and maintains strong relationships with Japan.
His work has been featured in the Economist, VICE, the BBC, the WSJ, AFP, AP, the Washington Post, the Guardian, Bloomberg, and Al Jazeera and numerous other major media outlets.
Referees:
Available on request.
Additional information:
From his early filmic forays into dreams and animal consciousness, and through his later documentaries, which focus on individuals who confound social expectations, Heath’s films navigate the gaps between perception, preconceptions and objective reality.
His award-winning 2015 film Doglegs, for example, primes audience expectations with an emotive premise —disabled pro wrestling— but deploys a non-didactic storytelling style that ambushes viewer preconceptions. As Counterpunch's reviewer puts it, ”Doglegs isn’t going to change your mind, but alter the perceptions behind certain belief systems at the molecular level.”
Heath is currently developing several projects -- documentary and fiction.
Skills
| Secondary Job Title | Producer |
|---|---|
| Job Titles | Director of Photography (DOP), Translator, Photographer, Videographer, Video Editor, Cinematographer, Camera Operator, Production Manager, Line Producer, Producer, Director, Writer, Screenwriter, Closed Captioner / Subtitler |
| Years in industry | 6+ years |