Henry Goren

Henry Goren
Henry Goren at the premier of High There at Action on Film Festival in Monrovia, California on August 24, 2014.
Born	United States
Occupation	Filmmaker, photojournalist, videographer, director

Henry Goren is an American award-winning photojournalist, videographer, cinematographer, and documentary film director, known in the industry for his hidden camera and investigative expertise, as well as his activism on behalf of unions, the environment, animal rights and other causes.

Goren gained international attention as organizer of the 2012 protest movement against Petco and its Husky Camp dog adoption events and in the 1980s, when he organized Hawaii's first underwater cleanup campaigns.

Directed (with Wayne Darwen) and produced the 2014 documentary film, High There, which has become a rallying point for the movement to legalize marijuana in the United States and to free Hawaiian marijuana activist Roger Christie from federal incarceration.

Goren has wide and varied experience in the entertainment industry. He broke into 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 network and syndicated television shows including 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.