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Hannah (Nicola Murphy), her young son, Jonathan (Morgan Palmer Hubbard) and his grandfather Bill (Bernard Moody) are thrilled to meet him and hope his contract to dust surrounding farmland keeps him there permanently. Bill, a former pilot himself, has...

The debut feature from writer-director Glenn Standring, The Irrefutable Truth about Demons sees anthropologist Harry Ballard (Karl Urban) threatened by a sinister cult. With the help of beautifully bizarre Bennie (Katie Wolfe) he endures a terrifying...

Each of them lives their life the way they play pool. THOMAS is either ‘on or ‘off. His game can be one of two things – absolutely brilliant or absolutely crap. JACK is always slick, cool and forever setting up the next shot. WAYNE is,...

Sunday, in a dull suburban street in New Zealand. Fourteen year old Charlotte lies on the floor in her house on the telephone. Charlotte is bored. Charlotte is beautiful, hovering on that uncertain line between child and woman. A shadow falls across her...

“My initial interest in Bus Stop was to make a film that explored the idea of what strangers around us are thinking. The more I spoke of this, the more I found everyone 2 had experienced the personal curiosity of the thoughts of people...

Director's Statement “Beautiful was taken from a theatre sketch written and performed by Jason Hoyte and Jonathan Brugh. The challenge lay in adapting its simplicity on the stage to technicalities of the big screen. Maintaining the honesty of...

Ko Whangatauatia te pae maunga Ko Karirikura te moana Ko Ahipara Kāmehameha te marae Ko Te Ōhāki tōku tūrangawaewae He uri ahau nō Te Rarawa iwi Me ōnā peka o Ngāti Moetonga Te Rokekā… Tihe Mauriora! In 1980 after an undistinguished spell...

A father in a wheelchair kidnaps his daughter. His ex-wife is doing everything to find her.

Junk may be tough for some and too pessimistic for others, but there is truth here whether we like it or not, as well as a story that is engaging, provocative and not without a certain black humour. In accepting the parts of...

Ten-year-old Megan is exploring the mangroves when she has a surprise encounter with Penina. Both girls are shy and their efforts to become friends are soon ruined by Penina’s surly older brother Gordon who demands Megan leave. When Penina tries to...

DIRECTORS NOTES - Toby Mills This film is inspired by a Shakespearean sonnet. Sonnet 147 My love is as a fever, longing still For that which longer nurseth the disease; Feeding on that which doth preserve the ill, The uncertain sickly appetite...

Director’s Notes - Tama Poata "Te Ao Kapurangi is a New Zealand period film depicting an episode of the ‘musket wars’ between indigenous Maori tribes who take advantage of new warfare technology supplied by British...

DIRECTOR’S NOTES - Steve Ayson “Watching The French Doors for the first time with an audience was quite possibly the most exhilarating and frightening experience in recent years. Although I was very proud of what we had made, I sat in...

DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT - Sima Urale   “I love seeing elderly people on screen, whether its commercials, soaps, or movies. Everything is so youth-orientated today, romantic movies are always about the young and the...

Director's Note - Robin Walters I had been looking for a short film to direct for almost a year. I had looked at many possible projects before The Platform came my way. It’s not often you ready a short film script and immediately fall in...

The story is told without dialogue, the characters ‘talking’ to each other only through the playing of their guitars. The open ocean was entirely created in a soundstage, featuring lighting and camerawork by award winning director of...

From 1971 - 1975 the ever-changing BLERTA group toured throughout New Zealand and Australia. They wrote and played music, created and performed sketches and made films. They wrote scripts. They were the cast, set designers and builders, they created...

Thinking About Sleep is an intimate story about loss, the sense of complete disorientation the first time you experience a death.  The film follows a close-knit group of friends over the course of a night following an unexpected suicide. All six 20...

Paul Swadel shot this short film in and around Auckland in 1999.

This short film was an early effort for filmmaking team Andrea Bosshard and Shane Loader who went on to make such acclaimed indie features as Hook, Line and Sinker and Taking The Wae Wae Express.

Devised for film by choreographer, Lisa Densem and director Neil Pardington, Losing Sleep is a six minute dance film set in a night-time of wakefulness, memory and dream. Three distinct choreographies explore a dream-like world of shifting relationships...

Some people never stop talking, some go round in circles, others are their own worst enemy.  Five people go about their lives. But why can't they just be happy? Sometimes things need to change.

His presence there does not seem sinister, but it doesn’t feel right. Someone is in the bathroom, he notices, and he doesn’t want them to know he is there.  He enters the bedroom to find a woman and child asleep.  When he makes a...

Little Samurai is the third film from writer/director Jesse Warn and producer Matthew Metcalfe. The pair first began working together some three years ago on their first production, 9 Across, a low budget prison thriller, and have since completed a...

A film about desire and place, where history and lost love mingle. Progress is represented by a train, barrelling forward in an endless rush. The train also symbolises the sense of flux that comes with living in a constant state of desire. Along with the...

A comedy about Ewen, a recovering therapy addict. He started by watching too many television talk shows, and escalated to joining 25 different self-help groups. Now he's promoting his new book, Please Tell Me Your Problems.

On 13 November 1991, Helen Todd received a phone call every parent dreads.  Her 20 year old son, Kamal, had been injured, shot on a small island the world knew little about – East Timor.  The nightmare of the next few days intensified,...

Accidents is a tale of masculine relations going wrong in a work gang on a remote and spectacular New Zealand construction site. Jack, a young city boy, finds himself out of place amongst his hardened work-mates. Chug is charismatic but a bully. Tamati...

A single movie-goer enters a cinema, popcorn in hand.  He settles into a seat near the front after trying several others on the way.  When the movie starts, a couple come and sit right by him, despite every other seat in the whole theatre being...

Magik and Rose began as an idea for a short film, then became a TV Sunday Theatre treatment, and like a snail, slowly evolved in to a 90 minute feature script. Unable to just file the idea away in the obttom drawer, writer/director Vanessa Alexander took...

Written by sisters Anne and Athina Tsoulis, I'll Make You Happy centres around around a stylised version of Auckland's red-light district. Like many innovative Kiwi films of the 1990's, I'll Make You Happy was made on a shoestring...

What Becomes of the Broken Hearted is director Ian Mune's sequel to the international success Once Were Warriors (1994, directed by Lee Tamahori), based on the book by Alan Duff. Duff also took on the role of script writer...