Henry Goren
{{short description|American film director}}
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Henry Goren is an American photojournalist, videographer, cinematographer, and documentary film director. He co-directed (with Wayne Darwen) and produced the 2014 documentary film, High There, which received coverage as part of the movement to legalize marijuana in the United States and to free Hawaiian marijuana activist Roger Christie from federal incarceration.{{Cite web |last=Ruehl |first=Franklin |date=2014-08-20 |title=Marijuana Documentary Proves That Truth Can Indeed Be Stranger Than Fiction |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/marijuana-documentary-pro_b_5689582 |access-date=2024-04-09 |website=HuffPost |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Ruehl |first=Franklin |date=2015-01-31 |title=Mysteries From Beyond the Other Dominion: The Mind-Boggling Power Of A Marijuana Documentary! |url=http://mysteriesfrombeyond.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-mind-boggling-power-of-marijuana.html |access-date=2024-04-09 |website=Mysteries From Beyond the Other Dominion}}
Career
Goren began working in film in the post production department of Schick Sunn Classic Pictures in 1981, and was promoted to assistant film editor before moving to the television news business as cameraman for various Los Angeles television stations. He was later director of photography for Dateline, Extra, Celebrity Justice, TV's Bloopers & Practical Jokes and NBC’s Olympics coverage. Goren also did field camera work for the McNeil-Lehrer NewsHour and was director of photography for Alex Paen's series, Animal Rescue, Dog Tales and Real Green.
He was a stunt driver on Stingray, the NBC crime drama produced by Stephen J. Cannell, and appeared onscreen as a footballer on HBO's 1st and Ten and a police officer on General Hospital.
Goren lived and worked in Oahu, Hawaii from 1984 to 1989, where he was a cinematographer for Japanese television commercials, and stock photographer for Quadrant Pictures, UK and Stock Photos Hawaii. He was also a SCUBA instructor in Waikiki, Oahu, filming underwater tours of dive sites. He initiated one of Hawaii's first 'underwater' clean-up campaigns in Waikiki's Ala Wai boat harbor.{{Cite web |title=Corps of Engineers Partners with Punahou JROTC to Clean Up Waikiki Beach as Part of Earth |url=https://www.poh.usace.army.mil/Media/News-Releases/Article/478310/corps-of-engineers-partners-with-punahou-jrotc-to-clean-up-waikiki-beach-as-par/https://www.poh.usace.army.mil/Media/News-Releases/Article/478310/corps-of-engineers-partners-with-punahou-jrotc-to-clean-up-waikiki-beach-as-par/ |access-date=2024-04-09 |website=Honolulu District |language=en-US}}{{dead link|date=April 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}
Goren was a director of photography for Clint Eastwood's Malpaso Productions on the 1998 video release, Monterey Jazz Festival: 40 Legendary Years.
Goren began freelancing as a videographer for Telepictures in 2002, where he met Wayne Darwen. The pair directed and produced High There, which premiered 25 August 2014 at the Action on Film International Film Festival in Monrovia, California.[https://web.archive.org/web/20140904113943/http://www.topix.com/forum/city/monrovia-ca/TR397GTG7NIGV3U5S Topix.com] Goren was also credited as director of photography and editor. However, other sources refer to him as videographer{{Cite web |last=Arriaga |first=Indra |date=2015-05-28 |title=High There |url=http://www.anchoragepress.com/film/high-there |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160210002630/http://www.anchoragepress.com/film/high-there |archive-date=2016-02-10 |access-date=2024-04-09 |website=Anchorage Press}} or cameraman.
High There is a nonfiction comedy about the pair's efforts to film the pilot for a marijuana travelogue series on the island of Hawaii. They wind up in various misadventures, while uncovering a Drug Enforcement Administration campaign to control the marijuana trade and to persecute marijuana activist Roger Christie.
High There won the Viewers' Choice Award at the first annual Cannabis Film Festival in Humboldt County, California on May 3, 2015.{{Cite web |last=HighThere |date=2015-05-04 |title=High There Wins Viewers Choice Award at 1st Cannabis Film Festival |url=https://www.420magazine.com/community/threads/high-there-wins-viewers-choice-award-at-1st-cannabis-film-festival.246179/ |access-date=2024-04-09 |website=420 Magazine Forums |language=en-US}}{{Self-published source|date=April 2024}} It was released on VOD and DVD by BrinkVision on June 23, 2015.[http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/media/wayne-darwens-high-there-stoners-film-is-a-labour-of-love/story-e6frg9tf-1227358238524 The Australian]{{Dead link|date=April 2024}}{{Cite web |title=Brink Vision DVD: High There (2014) |url=http://www.abucketofcorn.com/2015/07/brink-vision-dvd-high-there-2014.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150709102807/http://www.abucketofcorn.com/2015/07/brink-vision-dvd-high-there-2014.html |archive-date=2015-07-09 |access-date=2015-08-04 |website=Abucketofcorn.com}} High There is a Sam Peters International Productions Unlimited and Good Story Productions presentation of a Rat Lung picture.
He is a member of AFTRA and IATSE 600.{{Cite web |url=http://www.vidikiki.com/ |title=Vidikiki.com |access-date=2014-09-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150324115430/http://www.vidikiki.com/ |archive-date=2015-03-24 |url-status=dead }}{{Self-published source|date=April 2024}}
Petco protest
In January 2012, Goren organized a protest in Brea, California, against Petco and other corporations' involvement with Husky Camp, a nonprofit group that works to rescue and find new homes for Siberian and Malamute husky dogs. A former Husky Camp volunteer, Goren was quoted saying, "I don't want to see this rescue continue. I want the dogs to be taken care of in a better way."{{Cite web |last=Register |first=Sonya Quick {{!}} Orange County |date=2012-01-30 |title=Group protests husky rescue at Brea Petco |url=https://www.ocregister.com/2012/01/30/group-protests-husky-rescue-at-brea-petco-2/ |access-date=2024-04-09 |website=Orange County Register |language=en-US}} Protesters included members of the Occupy movement's Occupy Orange County{{Cite web |date=2024-04-07 |title=Technology Blog – Tech News, SEO Tip, Gadgets and Computer |url=https://www.occupy-oc.org/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240409195949/https://www.occupy-oc.org/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=April 9, 2024 |access-date=2024-04-09 |language=en-US}} offshoot, at the protest.[https://web.archive.org/web/20140904000111/http://largedogs.org/tags/group-protests-husky-rescue-at-brea-petco.html Largedogs.org]
Awards
- Henry Goren won a 2002 Golden Mike Award in the entertainment reporting division for the KCOP-TV-13 report, "A Star Is Born."[https://web.archive.org/web/20110127035258/http://www.rtna.org/GoldenMikeAwards/02winners.asp RTNA.org]{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0xor1J2mS0 |title=All About the Studio |language=en |access-date=2024-04-09 |via=www.youtube.com}}
- In 2003, he was nominated for an Emmy Award for photographing the multi-part news series, "Dangerous Beauty."
- "Alien Tom," a documentary short filmed and directed by Henry Goren, won the Silver Lei Award 2017 Honolulu Film Awards for director.
- AREA 420 the serial episodes 1 and 2 won Gold in the Los Angeles Motion Picture Film Festival in May 2020 which Henry Goren directed and was director of photography.
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|3797062}}
- [http://hightherethemovie.blogspot.com/2014/07/high-there-press-kit-material-directors.html Henry Goren biography]
- [http://www.hightherethemovie.com High There movie website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200813110702/http://hightherethemovie.com/ |date=2020-08-13 }}
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