Baz Caitcheon - Trainer
It was 2012 I first ran smartphone video workshops, tools of the day being iPhone 4's and 5's. Now in 2026 and I've had the pleasure of helping thousands of kiwi's to shoot edit and post short stories on & from their phones. Recently I got this feedback from Aotearoa's Envirohubs, so somethings working 😛.
My buzz is helping people reach out to others, populate their online space with positive stories, people doing good stuff.
Love this quote: "We have everything that we need for a thriving world, except a media that shows us how". (from 'Survivors Guide to the Earth')
Back when ..
Some whacky journalism for TV3 early 90's led me to the same in the UK, Glastonbury festival, field stories and rockstar voxpops. By 1995 I was project managing Akld and Wgtn digital channels 'Local Link' for TVNZ's new media breakout.
Then two decades of mostly NZ based content for TV and corporates.
Way back when ..
Economics degree, high school teacher, pilot, musician.
Now ..
Based on Waiheke Island, four children, four grandchildren.
Into playing music, biking, motorbiking, sailing, zumba, getting up to adventures with the grandies.
I've produced various online story series. During our covid lockdowns I posted a song a day, a way to connect with my communities both local and distant. In 2023 I travelled to lesser developed countries and blogged about it.
Then at home 2024/25, I created a series of 50 local smartphone interviews, Hopes, fears n' good ideas , pilot project attracting 25,000+ views on our local community's social pages.
I also work with other video storytellers such as producer Graham Elliott of Picture Talk Productions, to help clients hit their stops.
We've worked on numerous storytelling missions, Graham having grabbed this pic of me taking some advice from the village chief on the island of Tanna in Vanuatu. We were shooting 'Pacific Discovery', a pilot travel series presented at the Cannes MipDoc festival, circa early 2000's.
We've worked on numerous storytelling missions, Graham having grabbed this pic of me taking some advice from the village chief on the island of Tanna in Vanuatu. We were shooting 'Pacific Discovery', a pilot travel series presented at the Cannes MipDoc festival, circa early 2000's.