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Director’s Notes – Helena Brooks “The story of Nothing Special appealed to me because it’s funny and has such a unique premise. I like films that are strong on ideas and offer different ways of looking at the world. Forefront in...

From the director (George Port) of Valley of The Stereos.

Callum insists that James should stay the night and even offers some fine clothes to wear. James enjoys the party but is reminded of some curious stories about the house and its guests. He is surprised and seduced by Isabelle whilst alone in the wine...

50 Ways of Saying Fabulous is the beguiling second feature film from internationally acclaimed New Zealand director Stewart Main (Desperate Remedies). The film was adapted by Main from Graeme Aitken’s novel of the same name. 50 Ways of Saying...

Burt Munro was the quintessential New Zealander. Born and raised in Invercargill, New Zealand, he dreamed of making his 1920 Indian Twin Scout the fastest bike on earth. Roger Donaldson (whose credits include The Recruit, Thirteen Days, Dante’s...

DIRECTOR’S NOTES - Roseanne Liang “Rest Stop is a comedy of accidents that pays homage to a classic era of goodies and baddies, emulating a killer style that is thrilling to watch and even better to laugh at. Its sheer surreal craziness...

Tom Reilly taught himself filmmaking and animation while studying English at Auckland University, New Zealand.  He worked for a year as a film extra before making his first Claymation in 2001.  In 2003 he was named New Zealand New Filmmaker of...

Director’s Notes - Shona McCullagh "The film originated with the choreographic idea of a suspension of the natural laws of gravity. It occurred to me that yearning was the emotional equivalent of a suspension of a body in time and space...

Driector's Notes Ninety Percent was conceived as a narratively innovative short film which reveals the small yet meaningful details in the lives of three separate groups of characters. While the significance of the events portrayed are...

Director's Notes ‘The Underwatermelon Man and Other Unreasonable Rhymes’ has had a long and interesting metamorphosis. It began as drawing of a surreal character ‘The Underwatermelon Man’, that I made in the mid seventies...

SIONE’S WEDDING is a comedy about four best friends, Michael, Albert, Stanley and Sefa; the ladies’ man, the good boy, the party guy and the weird one – the Boys. They’re first generation Samoan New Zealanders living out their...

DIRECTOR’S NOTES - Rebecca Hobbs “I started out as an actor, and then became fascinated by the whole process of film making. I was aware, that as an actor you come in very late in the piece. Then I started writing and I caught the bug:...

Director, Jason Stutter, has always loved movies, especially comedy and action pictures. While making one of his early short films, Gun Lovers he needed a clip of an action film to play in the background of one of the scenes. The intention being that the...

Director’s Notes - Shona McCullagh “As a choreographer, the medium of camera has always held a fascination for me, especially where the laws of gravity could be played with. The Greek myth of Daedelus, who created wings made of wax and...

DIRECTOR’S NOTES - Michael Reihana “Since Little Gold Cowboy was my first film to direct I wanted it to be a fun experience for all involved. I made it with a group of ten people, friends that I had worked with previously, who all did...

DIRECTOR'S NOTES - Adam Stevens "This was a fantastic challenge as both a writer and director. The script/documentary format demanded a massive variety of characters and locations both at sea and on the land.  This put huge pressure...

Day 13: While clearing his traps the Hunter arrives at a road barrier he knows he should never cross. However, greed, arrogance and sheer defiance drive him across it. In his eyes he is the lord of this realm. He has the power of life and death,...

The story of Perfect Strangers explores the fine line between love and pursuit, romance and danger, fear and obsession. How far do you fall when you fall in love? Says writer/director Gaylene Preston, "The enduring mystery of the perfect stranger...

A Fish Tale was filmed in Western Springs, Auckland, in a cluster of small stucco houses that hold a Mediterranean look and are striking for their colour and uniformity and atypical New Zealand feel. Holland liked their strange ordinariness and the...

For Good is writer/ director Stuart McKenzie’s debut feature. An intense psychological thriller, it tracks a young woman’s struggle with her own sexual identity as she agonizes over the brutal rape and murder of her childhood...

Director's Statement - Paolo Rotondo "I fell in love with this story over the dinner table with my co-writer Neil Campbel. The first thing which attracted me to The Freezer  story, was the fact that it was a bloody good...

DIRECTOR'S NOTES - Brian Challis "When I first read Mathew’s script for Rock what first interested me was the isolation of Ralph.  A boy surrounded by people but totally alone.  I think it fits with the themes of my other...

Director’s Notes - Annalise Patterson “I see From Where I’m Standing as a kind of Chekhovian character study in which an unexpected event – the arrival of geese next door, and the neighbour’s response to this –...

Late for a dinner date, an erratic Motorist tries to prepare a gift whilst navigating a winding hillside road. But disaster strikes and he careens off a cliff! As his car plummets into the abyss, our Motorist has time to reflect ...

DIRECTOR’S NOTES - Chris Graham Water is a film about many things, with many under water layers. On its floating surface, it appears to be a film about a family in denial. How people often hide behind their daily trivial interests, and...

The Locals is the first feature film from writer/director Greg Page, whose award-winning short films Sarah’s Washing and Decaff brought him international recognition. The Locals was produced by Rocket Pictures/Local Films Ltd in association with...

Director's Notes I’d heard that creativity flourishes when restricted and it turned out to be true. We originally made Man With Issues for the Wellington Fringe Film Festival Competition. It had to run less than three minutes and be based on...

Director’s Notes - Belinda Schmid “Trespass is the demystification of New Zealand archetype of The Man Alone; similar to the lone hero in American westerns. Based on James K. Baxter’s poem The Ballad of John MacFarlane, the...

Kombi Nation is told through the eyes of a documentary film crew who have travelled to London to make a ‘reality-TV’ show about the group’s journey. But as the trip goes awry, the crew are drawn more and more onto the other side of the...

Toy Love is the third feature film from New Zealand writer/director Harry Sinclair (The Price of Milk, Topless Women Talk About Their Lives) and was produced by Juliette Veber.

Director’s Notes - Kirstin Marcon “Picnic Stops explores the internal war in a young woman between her heart and her sense of duty. She is caught between wanting to do the right and painful thing, and wanting to avoid the pain entirely...

Director’s Notes - Roseanne Liang: “Henchman is a post-modern love story. On the one hand, it flies in the face of Hollywood convention and declares to the world that indeed, everybody does get to love somebody sometimes, whether they are...