Home Movie
DIRECTOR'S NOTES -Fiona Samuel
TVNZ commissioned seven hour-long dramas in 1996, to play as a series on Sunday nights. Home Movie is one of them.
I wrote the script, based on the short story A Home...
New Zealand Production
Short
1998
Drama
46.00 minutes
Intergenerational warfare, mad aunts, bored teens, affairs, abortions and the ache of regret are on the menu in place of sausage rolls in Home Movie. A christening is the crux around which a family does its best to pull apart at the seams. Performances and a script attuned to the details of domestic disturbance don't hold back (America's Funniest Home Videos this ain't). Directed and written by Fiona Samuel, it was part of TV One's Montana Sunday Drama series. It won best actor, actress and TV drama at the 1998 NZ Film & TV Awards.