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 phones.
With a background in broadcast and online media, Baz has four children and now four grandchildren, ages 1 - 5. Busy boy.
He plays music, writes, cycles and motorbikes, travels, sails, zumba's, is big on localism and growing food. He's involved in helping his local community produce storytelling content - bazcaitcheon.substack.com
With a background in broadcast and online media, Baz has four children and now four grandchildren, ages 1 - 5. Busy boy.
He plays music, writes, cycles and motorbikes, travels, sails, zumba's, is big on localism and growing food. He's involved in helping his local community produce storytelling content - bazcaitcheon.substack.com
some background ...

Between 2017 and 2023, Baz has been the go-to smartphone video trainer for New Zealand's media companies, training hundreds of journalists at Stuff.co.nz, TVNZ and Whakaāta Maori (Maori Television). He's trained numerous amateur video storytellers across Kiwi organisations and companies, since beginning Smartphone Video DIY around 2012.
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 between 1995 and 1999, the team winning Australasia's Technology Innovator of the Year.
For the next five years he contracted to NZ production facilities Greenstone, Cream, TVNZ, TV3 and the BBC, while building a client base in the corporate sector.
He worked on prime time keepers like Maggies Garden Show, and docudrama series such as Nurses, Wanted Down under, Motorway Patrol, Choppers, Demons to Darlings, Private Investigators, Auction House, Wa$ted
and other assorted forgettables.
He helped the leaders and employees of organisations communicate their stories.
These include The Warehouse, NZ Trade and Enterprise, Foodstuffs, various District Health Boards, Ministry's, all sorts.
and going way back ...
Baz set up his own production company in 2000, Bazzacam Ltd.
This after project managing digital TV channel startups for TVNZ between 1995 and 1999, the team winning Australasia's Technology Innovator of the Year.
For the next five years he contracted to NZ production facilities Greenstone, Cream, TVNZ, TV3 and the BBC, while building a client base in the corporate sector.
He worked on prime time keepers like Maggies Garden Show, and docudrama series such as Nurses, Wanted Down under, Motorway Patrol, Choppers, Demons to Darlings, Private Investigators, Auction House, Wa$ted
and other assorted forgettables.
He helped the leaders and employees of organisations communicate their stories.
These include The Warehouse, NZ Trade and Enterprise, Foodstuffs, various District Health Boards, Ministry's, all sorts.