Bill Gosden, who served as director of the New Zealand International Film Festival for nearly 40 years, died Friday after a battle with bowel cancer.
He was 66. Gosden joined the festival in 1981 and retired last year because of ill health."I'm afraid I've entered the cancer world," he said in March 2019. "And I could see that I was not going to be up to continuing to do the job, sadly.
In an ideal world, I would have kept doing the job for at least another five years, but that's not to be." A onetime film critic in high school who was a big fan of Robert Altman movies, Gosden scored the world premiere for Peter Jackson's Heavenly Creatures (1994), set in Christchurch, New Zealand, for the festival.
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