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DIRECTOR'S NOTE - Felicity Morgan-Rhind "If this film has a positive effect on one person, then we’ve succeeded."

Grace has a bleak daily existence in a future world, going to work in an anonymous virtual space and returning home, alone. She escapes the routine by entering a virtual world, where she meets up with her virtual boyfriend.  These encounters...

Saving Grace was first produced for a play at Wellington's Bats Theatre in 1994. It was an immediate success, and won its young author, Duncan Sarkies, the prestigious Chapmann-Tripp Award for Best New Play, consolidating his reputation as a rising...

He tells her of a terrifying force within him, which drives him to destroy those around him. He says this force has gone. Karen listens to his story. At first she trusts him, even believes him. But then her trust gives way to scepticism. His...

9 Across is a short film about choices. Incarcerated in a maximum security prison for robbing a bank, Leo is an inmate with a secret. Day and night he fills in the questions to a crossword puzzle, encrypting into his answers the materials he needs to...

Harry and Eric are middle-aged men whose elderly, tyrannical mother runs their lives. When she dies,  the two men are forced to ask themselves some serious questions: "Should I have told her that I loved her?," "Who's going to...

Director Waka Attewell is an award-winning cinematographer and filmmaker, while writer Ken Hammon collaborated on the cult hit Bad Taste.

A grocer leaves his shop in the care of an errant assistant.  Disillusioned and bored, she disobeys his orders to stay open and puts her feet up.  With the grocer gone, the groceries erupt in a maelstrom of malevolent mess and her peace is...

In an unfamiliar house, amongst adults paralysed by loss, a young girl finds a surprising kindred spirit in her dying grandmother, Emma. And in the wondrous natural world surrounding the house, Josie encounters a strange and elusive playmate her own age.

Hurtle  is a surreal and comedic narrative which describes one day on the life of two extraordinary sisters of the cloth. Featuring choreography designed specifically for the camera, the movement is surging and humorous, compelling the characters...

Sarah's Washing is the first live-action film from animator, Greg Page (Decaff and Decaff II). Sarah's Washing is a slice of life with a dark twist.

In New Zealand's outback, a stunning blond wearing high-topped blue boots and a matching mini-skirted dress rises from her motel bed while a TV newscaster reports on weird  blue lights that were seen in the sky last night. When the blond starts...

Cammy Anders is thirteen and lives in a motel in a small-coastal town.  She appears to be suffering from bulimia. Her brother is an introvert who spends hours building elaborate matchstick houses and her mother is searching for a new start by...

Dean and Jenny arrive in the middle of nowhere and begin digging and drilling a large well. Whatever it is they expect to find is not there; the well is dry.  Dean, an already angry man by nature, is far from happy.  He is equally disgruntled...

This is an early example of a 'cyber film', a technique where the entire film is made inside a computer.  The filmmakers took their rough pencil sketches and built the film from there.  It's a time consuming process from creating an...

The tale of Redman and Bluewoman - two quirky bush critters who cut to the chase in a road-kill race around New Zealand. This live action cartoon poses the question - are thousands of possums really being run over all around the country, or is it just...

Tony loves Milly. The only problem is that Tony is married to to Karen, and Karen has a love for guns. Starring Jed Brophy, this film also features Jemaine Clement in an early film role as a Tongan ninja.

Bella is the story of a transsexual man - incarcerated by prison and by the walls of a New Zealand minimum security prison - making a courageous stand against oppression. In the brutal environment of a male prison, Bella Te Tomo is paradoxically, and...

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 Movie by Fiona Farrell. I...

Based on a live performance, this film epitomises the idea of Pasifika tribal fusion.  Veteran cinematographer Warrick ‘Waka’ Attewell has brought together the talents of composer Gareth Farr, percussion group Strike and choreographer...

A dark tale of friendship, desperation and betrayal, Wasted is the story of three friends at the end of the line, and of the astonishing sacrifices they must make before a fiendish twist in the tale delivers a final, desperate blow to their chances of...

Director Garth Maxwell and long-time writing partner Rex Pilgrim began developing When Love Comes four years before making the film, following their screenplay collaboration on the highly regarded feature Jack Be Nimble which Maxwell also directed....

With ad-space during off-peak times being relatively cheap, Wellington-based producer, Barry Thomas, hit upon the idea of using these spaces to make very short films.  Film as haiku, so to speak.   From 110 applicants, a panel of judges...

In the musty chambers of a thousand year old monastery there lived Elmer, a monk who dreamed of nothing more than being able to fly to visit his Creator. So Elmer invented a wing system and tragically jumped into the wind filled abyss. Judged as a...

When she stumbles upon a strange woman they agree to share a delicious afternoon of talking. Despite no common language, both lonely women are enchanted by the sound of another's voice. A pact to return is made. But can the road she has come by ever...

It's 1970 and the dragnet of New Zealand suburbia is closing in on nine-year-old Jonny. Police, parents and a stool pigeon - they all want him for questioning. Jonathan Ogilvie is an award-winning filmmaker.  His short films...

Owen Hughes Footage is a journey into the depths of their soles.

Nina lives with her family in a Croatian migrant enclave in the suburbs of Auckland. Brought to New Zealand by her mother Mira after the outbreak of war in her homeland, Nina faces a new life in a new land. Nina's relationship with her domineering...

Early one morning three young children are in the orchard.  They are stealing the old man's apples when the trouble begins... An old man lives high above a seaside village which one morning is jolted by a sharp earthquake. Nobody is hurt, but...

London, 1983. Thousands of New Zealanders have gone to London for their overseas experience.  They might as well have stayed at home.  They get to London, go straight to a party full of New Zealanders and talk about life back home....

Is one of these two a murderer?  Is one of them mad?  Will the elevator ever reach the bottom? Maybe.... Maybe not. Going Down  is a gripping yarn with some gentle comentary on social bigotry.