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Director's Notes   For a long while I had been looking to film a short story of a classic nature, with an actual beginning, middle and end. Corey’s script, thanks to its simplicity, humanity and originality, leapt off the page...

Director's Notes The anxiety around being accepted is electric at eleven. I remember that time being so strongly about friendships, being liked, and trying to find my place within it. When I connect to my own experiences of bullying, I can vividly...

Director’s Statement "I was in the 2011 Christchurch Earthquake that killed 185 people. During the disaster I heard of ordinary men and women putting themselves at considerable risk to help others, to pull people from rubble or comfort a...

Is old Bird just being Bird, or is he pushing his free-living, hippy lifestyle too far? His escapades are too much for his daughter Blessing, who packs him off to The Golden Falls retirement home. Bird hates it and rebels. The staff gets stricter with...

Meathead is based on a true story, inspired by the real life experiences of Mike Robinson.   The events and ideas within it sparked the development of a short screenplay by writer / director Sam Holst, which was in turn funded by The New Zealand...

NOTES FROM THE DIRECTOR The Off Season is the story of a boy whose life is in upheaval after the recent loss of his father. It is a look into the young boy’s life at a time when he is in great pain. His pain resonates to such a degree that he...

This time, he’s going to make sure he gets his man. So, when people in the retirement village start dying, Murray is on the case. But as events go increasingly haywire, it becomes apparent that all is not as it seems with Frank. Or Murray.

Set in the early 1960s Munted is an unusual film that tells the story of a mother who returns to retrieve Katrina, her almost feral daughter, from her sister’s farm. When it is evident that her sister is not going to give the child up, the mother...

On a trip to find his birth mother, 18-year-old Aaron is forced to hitch a ride with a rough looking stranger, Maka. Out of fear, Aaron rejects Maka’s friendship, but when the reunion with his mother doesn’t go quite as planned, he discovers...

Existence is a post-apocalyptic drama which tells the story of Freya, a woman trapped in a dying world.  Set many years from now, the earth is submerged under a toxic ocean; the last remaining land mass barely supports the survivors.  ...

Director’s Statement “I have known Beatle for a good portion of my life, however he was always a figure on the peripheral. He was employed by my parents to kill animals on our farm for us to eat. I remember when I was about 15,...

Two Little Boys stars Hamish Blake from Hamish and Andy and Bret McKenzie from New Zealand’s acclaimed Flight of the Conchords.  It is the second feature film from writing team Robert and Duncan Sarkies, following their debut feature...

The story is inspired by an incident in 1869 during the New Zealand Land Wars when a young trooper, Michael Noonan carrying military despatches, was shot within sight of the camp at Lake Waikaremoana by an ambushing party.

CONCEPT AND INSPIRATION “I started working on the robot that is the main character in this film, when I first started teaching myself 3D animation in 1998. I then developed it further as part of my first 3D animation job, making it into a...

Salote, an airport cleaner starts another long night shift. She keeps her head down, does her job and gleans her survival from what others leave behind. No one would usually spare her a second glance.

Through Rob Hamill’s personal story, Brother Number One explores one of the “forgotten” genocides of the 20th century, examining how and why nearly 2 million Cambodians could be killed by a fanatical regime known as the Khmer...

Mr Pip was filmed in the village of Pidia on Bougainville Island, a territory of Papua New Guinea, and in Auckland and Oamaru in New Zealand, between June and September 2011. In Bougainville, the beautiful white sand beaches, lush tropical rainforest,...

How To Meet Girls From A Distance  was made in association with the NZ Film Commission and NZ On Air as part of the first round of Make My Movie funding, an initiative from V48 Hours organiser Ant Timpson. The competition utilised social media,...

What began in the backrooms of Wellington’s punk rock underground, with Toogood, Tom Larkin, Phil Knight and Karl Kippenberger coming together to form ‘a kickass band’, would see Shihad transplanted to Germany, Australia and eventually...

Five years ago our heroes the Duckrockers thought they had figured it all out - they had found themselves girlfriends to take to Sione’s wedding and the future was looking bright: Michael had come to accept that commitment wasn’t for him and...

Staring Anzac Wallace, Bruno Lawrence, Wi Kuki Kaa, Kelly Johnson, Tim Elliot, Tania Bristowe, Tim Elliot, Tania Bristowe, Ilona Rodgers, Martyn Sanderson. Geoff Murphy's original 1983 classic, digitally re mastered and remixed in 5.1 stereo.

The greatest love story ever told is played out in a caravan park over one hot summer.  Romeo and Juliet, two young members of opposing feuding families, fall in love and all hell breaks loose.  For the first time ever, an entire play of...

Jack spends an afternoon alone in his room, reliving the magic of a teenage love story and the tragic events that threaten to tear it apart. As he considers his world without his girl, he is left questioning what it really means to do the right...

Director’s Statement -Leo Woodhead   As a film-maker, I’m interested in how our understanding of other people often comes from the most fleeting of moments or the briefest of glimpses. And how from this fragmentary experience...

The Weight Of Elephants is the debut feature of Daniel Joseph Borgman, a New Zealander who lives between Europe and the country he grew up in, New Zealand. Daniel has forged a unique path as a New Zealand filmmaker, making his films both there and in...

Roof Rattling tells the story of the brief connection between a young boy and an old man who couldn’t be more different, or more alike. A chance encounter between the two has a dramatic effect on both of their lives.

Meniscus is the evolution of consciousness. Naked bodies move enmasse, no longer individuals, but one body of flesh, pulsating to the rhythm of life. Together the naked bodies have a vulnerability that is powerful. The delicate beauty of this...

DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT - Jason Stutter “This is the third in the ‘Careful with that…’ series. I hope audiences get a kick out of this one as much as the other two. ‘Crossbow’ continues the...

Fifteen-year-old James has everything before him; the catch is he has to choose between the two things he wants the most. Jenny, the girl he has a crush on is awaiting him at the end of her shift at the used-book store. His new rugby mates expect him to...

Ed Preston in his old age (Tony Barry) tells the story from the day in 1940, aged 28, he and his mates impetuously signed up after rugby practice, telling their wives later. His new wife, Tui (Chelsie Preston Crayford), was pregnant and distraught, but...

TAKU RAKAU E is a waiata tawhito composed about 1873 by Mihikitekapua of Tūhoe. Now in 2009, some generations later Mihikitekapua’s descendents continue to sing her waiata. In this short film Mihikitekapua laments the loss of land and her family...

Berik, a short drama about friendship and understanding, takes place in Semey, Kazakhstan. Berik, 33, blind and deformed due to radiation poisoning, spends his days at home alone, while his brother is at work. That is until Adil, 11, the smallest...

Amadi, a recently resettled refugee from Rwanda is in constant dispute with his mentally unstable neighbour who insists on cluttering the hallway of their building with her possessions. A mutual prejudice exists between them. But when they observe each...

THE HOPES & DREAMS OF GAZZA SNELL is a coming of age drama with a difference: it's the father who does the growing up. In equal measures charming and infuriating, Gazza Snell (William McInnes) is mad about karting – as are his teenage...

And hilarity ensues. He buys a motorbike and a leather jacket....ah wait, I've given away too much.