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Liam is nineteen, fresh out of high school, and enjoying a life of parties and pills. He lives with his grandmother. He keeps her at an arm’s length, and so, when she has a sudden stroke, he ignores her call, and doesn’t find out until he...

When an ancient Native American spirit lost in an in-between world is seen by pizza worker Ivan he attempts to get a message across. But Ivan isn’t interested, he is on a one-week trial in this busy New York City pizzeria and cannot afford...

Six New Zealand screenwriters have had their scripts selected as part of the Black List New Zealand Project (BLNZP), a partnership between internationally acclaimed the Black List and the New Zealand Film Commission. The six writers will take part in a...

Topic, the streaming service from First Look Media, announced today that they have acquired North American rights to the New Zealand quirky comedy This Town for a May 20th streaming release as well as a Day & Date option to order the film via Vimeo...

Five successful screen projects have been selected in the first round of the $50 million Te Puna Kairangi Premium Productions for International Audiences Fund. Te Puna Kairangi Premium Fund supports the Aotearoa New Zealand production sector recovery...

Each chapter is set in a defining time for New Zealand street gangs: from the tough state-run boys' homes of the sixties where many gang members grew up; to the emerging urban gang scene in the seventies where teenagers created their own gang...

Harnessing the fighting spirit of the rugby field, SIX60 transformed a desire to win into musical domination previously unseen in Aotearoa. This feature documentary, by Julia Parnell, captures the band as they’ve never been seen before. From...

Fifteen year old refugee Tarek, and his older brother Nizar, have been re-settled in the sleepy provincial town of Alexandra, New Zealand. But settling Tarek’s emotional geography is a much harder task, and he cannot reconcile this well-meaning but...

When a sickly-thin man with a thick wrap of bandages over his face arrives home, Alex is terrified and can identify him only as a stranger. His father, Bradley, is ashamed of his injuries; remembering what a 'hero' he used to be to his son. He...

"I chose to tell this story from the point of view of the Neighbour, not only because I find his perspective interesting when it comes to this issue, but also because the issue of domestic violence is so heavy and everyone has their own connotations...

Kevin once had a dream that a wild storm would carry him away to live a heroic life sailing the seven seas. That was when he was a kid. Now he is an adult who works in the local sardine factory, and all of his dreams are locked away in a suitcase under...

The film is set over a single day in suburban New Zealand and explores what most would consider an ‘unhinged mind’. Though on a more abstract level the story also questions mankind’s relationship with technology. It’s a dialogue...

One evening Alisi (17) climbs a huge  tree and won't come down. As evening turns to night, her sanctuary becomes her prison - and her secret is out. Alisi is pregnant to her gay best friend, Mikaele (17), and it's all over Facebook. Mikaele...

Still reeling from the aftermath of her father’s unexpected death, Jenya struggles at home and with her mother. In a effort to escape Jenya wanders through Auckland’s suburban landscape, eventually finding herself drawn into the bosom of a...

Isabelle is downsizing in retirement to a row of identical townhouses.  It’s her 65th birthday and her first day in her new home but all her neighbours are too consumed in their semi detached bubbles to engage with the eager new resident....

8 year old Jesse lives in a twilight world of sadness and silence, squeezed into a tiny caravan with his grief stricken father. They're in limbo, existing more than living. The child intuitively understands that looking forward is harder than looking...

Sarah and Daniel are breaking up. Sarah’s moving out. Daniel’s moving downstairs. Jess is moving upstairs with her girlfriend Morgan, who’s moving in. Fia’s not moving anywhere. He’s more concerned with who gets custody of...

Jamie Wright fled her hometown 15 years ago. But when her father suffers a debilitating stroke she has to return home to care for him - to nurse the person she despises most in the world. As she rediscovers the people and places of her past, as well as...

Stevo is an observational documentary about a charismatic Māori security guard who lives between two worlds.   Rooted firmly in his culture, Stevo Winiata divides his time between a tiny mid-city apartment and his family home on the shores...

Te Tumu Whakaata Taonga The New Zealand Film Commission (NZFC) is pleased to announce appointments to four roles in the Development and Production team headed by Leanne Saunders. Two of the roles are in the investment area, where Angela Littlejohn will...

Martin Phillipps came tantalizingly close to conquering the international musical world with his band The Chills, but instead fell into decades of debt and addiction in his hometown of Dunedin, New Zealand. At 54, he’s been given a dire medical...

This Town follows one man’s attempt to return to normality, and one woman’s utter determination to prevent it. Through the contradictions, intensity and absurdity of their ambitions, an extraordinary comedy emerges. Five years ago, Sean...

Deathgasm was funded by Make My Horror Movie, a contest in which would be horror movie makers submitted a synopsis and poster to compete for $200 000 to make their film a reality.  Jason Lei Howden won the contest and his film premiered at the...

This feature is based loosely on a short film that Waititi and Clement made in 2005. Although it has been 8 yrs since they came up with the idea, this certainly proves that good things take time, but vampire mockumentaries take about 8 years.  ...

On Thursday 25 March the NZFC hosted its first live webinar of 2021. Speakers were New Zealand Film Commission CEO Annabelle Sheehan, Joint Heads of Te Puna Kairangi- Premium Fund and Ara ki Te Puna Kairangi -  Premium Development Fund, Kay...

Ainsley Gardiner and Briar Grace-Smith’s debut feature Cousins, has taken over $1M dollars at the New Zealand box office and, after three weeks in release at New Zealand cinemas, continues to play strongly around the country remaining on 124 screens...

Choreographed by world champion Parris Goebel and featuring some of the best hip hop dancers in the world, Born to Dance is New Zealand's first dance movie.. Tu Kaea (champion hip hop dancer Tia Maipi) has the chance to audition for K-Crew, the best...

This feel-good, feather-ruffling flockumentary follows a group of witty and distinctive poultry obsessives trying to peak at nationals as their 148-year old club crumbles around them. 

Told from three perspectives, Human Traces is an atmospheric psychological thriller set on a Subantarctic Island. Filmed on location in the Catlins, it is the debut feature from writer/director Nic Gorman and producer Nadia Maxwell. 

Written and directed by James Napier Robertson, The Dark Horse is an inspiring true story based on the life of a charismatic, little-known New Zealand hero, Genesis Potini, played by Cliff Curtis (Once Were Warriors, Whale Rider, Boy). The film also...

Pork Pie is a modern reimagining of the kiwi classic Goodbye Pork Pie and director Matt Murphy is the son of Geoff Murphy who directed the original film.

Written and directed by Max Currie, Everything We Loved follows a stage magician’s struggle to mend his wife’s broken heart with his greatest and most dangerous illusion – a little boy. The Hollywood Reporter lauded the film as “...

Jimmy, a big-hearted fourteen year old boy is facing a difficult decision - stay in his abusive home to protect his younger siblings, or leave to start a new life of his own.

Based on the acclaimed novel by Maraget Mahy, The Changeover tells the story of Laura, who loses her little brother in earthquake-scarred Christchurch. A decrepit old man marks the child’s hand with a noxious stamp. Jacko sickens quickly while the...

Show of Hands was filmed in New Plymouth, New Zealand, during November and December of 2007. Originally set in urban Lower Hutt, Wellington where the World Record contest was actually won, a chance cup of coffee with Venture Taranaki Film representative...

Director’s Notes - Felicity Morgan-Rhind “I remember vividly bumping into a friend one Christmas Day in the early ‘90s. She was in tears. The reason? Her father had spent their entire Christmas lunch trying to fondle her breasts....