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Rory’s planned a surprise for Rebecca, but everything is destroyed when she finally reveals her motives for hanging out with him. How far can Rory be pushed before he snaps?

Fired by the promise of revenge against the Bramwells (the wealthy property developers who stole his family’s land) and embarrassed by his gone-mad father (Tim Finn) building an enormous tower in the front yard, Cedric is ready for action. When...

Billy T: Te Movie explores Billy T James’ origins as a performer from the time he moved from rural Cambridge to 1960s Auckland on a Māori apprenticeship scheme and joined his first band, through to his high-rating TV series and award-winning acting...

The Devil's Rock , June 5, 1944. A crack kiwi commando team, Captain Ben Grogan and Sergeant Joseph Tane, are sent on a top secret mission to destroy gun emplacements inside German occupied territory in the Channel Islands on the eve of D-Day. They...

When a City Falls began as a project by Gerard Smyth to document the damage done to Christchurch by the September 2010 earthquake, and the subsequent recovery efforts in the months that followed. In February 2011 when the devastating magnitude 6.3...

Vinnie and his friend Jonah spend their nights on the streets of South Auckland tagging and stealing. One night Vinnie has had enough. He tries to break away from his overbearing friend but is drawn back in when Jonah threatens and humiliates him. When...

Based on real events, Preferably Blue is the story of a very lonely and very bitter Easter Bunny. Fuelled by ego, jealousy, vodka and anti-depressants, Easter Bunny hatches a plan that will see the “holiday spotlight” shift from his old foe...

A discontented and apathetic young rural woman spends her days renovating the country villa she shares with her often absent husband. A regular attempt to capture eels for their dinner-plates creates an encounter between the woman and an eel. One night...

Monifa, a young African girl, has recently arrived to New Zealand as a refugee from Burundi. Haunted by her past, she struggles to adapt to her new life with ageing adoptive parents.  On the way to school, Monifa encounters a local Polynesian boy....

When carsick Bella (Coco Lovatt) vomits on a farmer’s metal driveway it leads to an angry confrontation between the farm-woman, Bev (Jennifer Ludlum), and Bella’s mother, Lisa (Sophie Henderson). Bev accuses Lisa of violating her property,...

Director's Notes Michelle started developing the story after the completion of her first short film Betty Banned Sweets.  She felt that she wasn’t done with the themes of Betty Banned Sweets and wanted to explore them further. ...

Emily should know better than to fall in love with white boys, even if they are kindred nerd spirits. Her parents are touchy about the whole “we came to New Zealand to give you the best opportunities” thing, and eldest sister Susan had to...

Love Birds, starring acclaimed Golden Globe Award-winning British actress Sally Hawkins and internationally popular comedian, broadcaster and actor Rhys Darby, is a charming, bitter-sweet romantic comedy about what it is to have friends and find true...

Canadian Eskimo Dogs, or Qimmiq, were once indispensible to human life in the arctic. Today, the breed faces extinction. Since 1976, Brian Ladoon has stuck to a promise to maintain a viable breeding colony, battling chronic underfunding, wandering polar...

The Orator (O le Tulafale) is the story of a man, Saili, who wants only to defend the honour of his beloved wife and be at peace with her.  Saili is physically disadvantaged, with no great aspirations or expectations for himself and yet he is...

DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT - Jason Stutter: “Careful with that Axe is inspired by a song written by Pink Floyd. I listened to the song one day on my iPod and the idea for this film just kinda fell into my head. Most of my film concepts are either...

New Educational Series - Canaries in Colour is a nostalgic pastiche of found graphic material from AV learning programs of the 1970s. 

A chance comment gave writer Kate McDermott a new perspective on a commonplace situation and inspired the short film script This Is Her. “The middle-aged man leaves his similarly aged wife for someone 20 years his junior - it’s such a common...

Director’s Notes - Jochen Fitzherbert “Of all the films I’ve written, Bridge is the script that excited me to a degree that inspired me to return to my first passion: the director’s chair. Why the excitement? First and...

DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT-Adam Strange “Uncle Remus perhaps summed it up best when he reminisced to Brer Rabbit:  ‘’Twas a time when men were more like critters, and critters more like men, and some say things was better that way...

The novel Under the Mountain, by acclaimed New Zealand author Maurice Gee, has been in print since it was first published in 1979. The book has been a much loved classic for generations of younger readers and, in 1982, the story became a scary and hugely...

Better Military Modelling is the second short film in the New Educational Series, an animated series intricately constructed from images sourced from out-dated instruction and education manuals of the 60’s and 70’s. Set in a shifting and...

The Graffiti of Mr Tupaia is based on the Australian short story The Graffiti of Mr Kynyatta by Michael Griffith, adapted for screen by Paul Stanley Ward. We responded to the story of a character, Mr Tupaia, dignified but silent and isolated in his...

DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT - Jason Stutter “We had loads of fun traumatising audiences around the world with “Careful with that Axe”, so we thought... sequel.  ‘Power tool’ plays with the audience’s...

PRODUCTION NOTES Vostok Station began in the summer of 2006. A test film was shot in and around the Auckland region. This was cut together to examine the story, define the shots and understand the required effects. A trip was made to the location of Mt...

DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT “Charlotte was the winner of New Zealand’s largest short film competition the V Energy 48Hour Film Competition. As the title suggests, films have to be produced in 48 hours. I wrote the script on the...

DIRECTORS’ NOTES - Meihana Durie “This film is based on the true story of Joe Warbrick and the 1888 New Zealand Natives rugby tour of Great Britain. It is a little known yet fascinating account of triumph over adversity. As more clues...

DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT - Daniel Borgman “Lars and Peter is about the distance in understanding between an adult and a child, a father and his young son, and how difficult it can be to bridge that gap especially when dealing with issues...

Writer David Coyle was 18 years old when he wrote Poppy as a student. After discovering the script Director James Cunningham was determined to make it as a CGI short film. Poppy took 15 months to make. A one day shoot occurred at Weta Digital in...

DIRECTOR’S NOTES -David Stubbs “From the start I set myself the task of developing a project about a world I know and people I know. What excited me most about the screenplay was its raw and original emotional power. It’s affecting...

A lush and melancholic mystery that follows a young man on his journey to self-revelation following the disappearance of his girlfriend on New Zealand’s remote West Coast.

DIRECTOR’S NOTES – GRANT MAJOR “Write what you know they say and while I can’t claim to be ‘the man’ in this story these ideas have been knocking around in my head for some time as a collection of un-related visions...

The NZFC financed short film, The Six Dollar Fifty Man, was selected for competition at the most important film festival in the world, the 62nd Festival De Cannes.  It was the second time filmmakers Mark Albiston and Louis Sutherland had a short...