Baz Caitcheon - Director
Baz Caitcheon leads Bazzacam as smartphone video trainer, working with a range of clients throughout New Zealand. He trains organisations to shoot, edit and publish their own videos, on and from their smartphones and devices, apple and android..
Baz is married, has four children, a clutch of grandkids (where did they come from ! 😝) plays music, writes, cycles, sails, loves zumba, is big on localism, community gardens and growing food, and passionate about helping people tell their stories.
Baz is married, has four children, a clutch of grandkids (where did they come from ! 😝) plays music, writes, cycles, sails, loves zumba, is big on localism, community gardens and growing food, and passionate about helping people tell their stories.
some background ...
Between 2017 and 2023, Baz has been the go-to smartphone video trainer for New Zealand's big media companies, training hundreds of journalists at Stuff.co.nz, TVNZ and Whakaāta Maori (Maori Television). He's also trained literally thousands of amateur video storytellers across Kiwi organisations and companies, since beginning Smartphone Video DIY around 2010.
and going way back ...
Baz set up his own production company in 2000, Bazzacam Ltd.
This after project managing digital TV channel startups for TVNZ from 1995 on.
In 1999, Baz's team were awarded Technology Innovator of the Year for Australasia.
For the next five years he contracted to NZ production facilities Greenstone, Cream, TVNZ, TV3 and offshore the BBC, while building a client base in the corporate sector.
He shot, directed and produced TV series contributing to or responsible for:
Nurses, Maggies Garden Show, Wanted Down under, Motorway Patrol, Choppers, Demons to Darlings, Private Investigators, Auction House, Wa$ted and material from around the Pacific.
He helped the leaders and employees of organisations tell their stories.
These include The Warehouse, NZ Trade and Enterprise, Foodstuffs, and various District Health Boards.
In the 2004 he ran 2-3 week workshops on DIY video production for the Ministry of Social Development, and as trustee for Waiheke Cinema, coordinated local talent to produce short clips to precede main features, run on the ferries and published to the early iteration of YouTube. Waiheke Island now has a growing archive of community stories and Baz has since gone on to establish a wide stable of clients with Smartphone Video DIY.
and going way back ...
Baz set up his own production company in 2000, Bazzacam Ltd.
This after project managing digital TV channel startups for TVNZ from 1995 on.
In 1999, Baz's team were awarded Technology Innovator of the Year for Australasia.
For the next five years he contracted to NZ production facilities Greenstone, Cream, TVNZ, TV3 and offshore the BBC, while building a client base in the corporate sector.
He shot, directed and produced TV series contributing to or responsible for:
Nurses, Maggies Garden Show, Wanted Down under, Motorway Patrol, Choppers, Demons to Darlings, Private Investigators, Auction House, Wa$ted and material from around the Pacific.
He helped the leaders and employees of organisations tell their stories.
These include The Warehouse, NZ Trade and Enterprise, Foodstuffs, and various District Health Boards.
In the 2004 he ran 2-3 week workshops on DIY video production for the Ministry of Social Development, and as trustee for Waiheke Cinema, coordinated local talent to produce short clips to precede main features, run on the ferries and published to the early iteration of YouTube. Waiheke Island now has a growing archive of community stories and Baz has since gone on to establish a wide stable of clients with Smartphone Video DIY.