• Good Morning Stonus

    Film

    It is the year 2291e. The great warlord’s army are about to attack. Nothing will stand in his way if the Rebels cannot defeat them. Any man, woman or boglinoid willing to risk their life to stand against such tyranny is valued. Is this why...

  • Nude Tuesday

    Film

    The marriage of Laura and Bruno is on the rocks. They bicker constantly, their stress levels are sky high, and Laura’s gritted teeth determination to deliver the perfect client pitch leads to an arm laceration and immediate dismissal. At their...

  • Rustling

    Film

    During a rushed lesson from their father on butchering a stolen sheep, 15-year-old Hoss and his 11-year-old brother Blue notice that their act has orphaned a baby lamb. When Blue refuses to eat the resulting meal, his father’s temper ignites. Later...

  • Sista

    Film

    Sista is a coming of age story about Tiana (13) and Isabelle (11), two New Zealand/ Samoan sisters on the cusp of adolescence. As Tiana is drawn into the world of teenagerhood and seduced by the pressures it forces upon her, Isabelle feels left behind....

  • Smog

    Film

    Thick, deadly smog blankets the globe, reducing visibility to less than a few metres. Living in a secluded farmhouse, a woman and her abusive husband attempt to survive by crafting trails with rope and stakes to guide them through the unseeable world....

  • Pearl

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    Issue date: 7 Sep 2022

    Filmmaker Ti West returns with another chapter from the twisted world of X, in this astonishing follow-up to the year’s most acclaimed horror film. Trapped on her family’s isolated farm, Pearl must tend to her ailing father under the bitter and...

  • Muru

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    Issue date: 1 Sep 2022

    Taffy (Cliff Curtis) on horseback - Muru 2022 © Jawbone Pictures, Wheke Group Limited. Photo Christopher Pryor Inspired by actual 2007 events, Muru is a response to the illegitimate raids by Government armed forces on the people of Tūhoe. Muru...

  • The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power

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    Issue date: 2 Sep 2022

    The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power brings to screens for the very first time the heroic legends of the fabled Second Age of Middle-earth's history. This epic drama is set thousands of years before the events of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit and...

  • Jack Be Nimble

    Film

    A gothic horror film directed by Garth Maxwell.

  • The Lawnmower Men of Kapu

    Film

    Atawhai is a boy on the verge of manhood. He is a favorite of his Aunties, and he in turn adores them. But the Aunties have grown old and he fears they may lose their ability to keep the Marae, the communal gathering place of the tribe, alive. Atawhai...

  • The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power

    Showcase
    Issue date: 26 Aug 2022

    Fast Facts 1,250 New Zealand crew 80% New Zealand HODs 38 New Zealand locations 7 stages 87 sets built 68% series shot in studio...

  • Power Rangers Dino Fury Season 28

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    Issue date: 1 Feb 2021

    When an army of powerful alien beings is unleashed on Earth threatening life as we know it, a brand-new team of Power Rangers, fueled by the prehistoric power of the dinosaurs, are recruited to deal with the threat. Format TV series Production...

  • Power Rangers Dino Fury Season 29

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    Issue date: 1 Jul 2022

    When an army of powerful alien beings is unleashed on Earth threatening life as we know it, a brand-new team of Power Rangers, fueled by the prehistoric power of the dinosaurs, are recruited to deal with the threat. Format TV series Production...

  • The Scarecrow

    Film

    It's a funny film. The setting is the fictitious New Zealand small town of Klynham in the early 1950s, where each day's trivial events and each character in the motley population serve to divert Ned and Prudence from the truth of what is going on...

  • Destination Love

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    Issue date: 1 Jan 2022

    Madison has the chance to pursue her love of event management when her two best friends announce their engagement. Finding a pre-planned wedding package on a remote island vineyard in New Zealand, Madison teams up with David, the handsome vineyard owner...

  • Love Knots

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    Issue date: 2 Feb 2022

    Jodie fears that her family's sail-making company will be torn down after a luxury developer looks to expand their port. When she meets Will, the architect behind the expansion, she hopes she can harmonize his plans with local businesses. Format ...

  • Written in the Stars

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    Issue date: 1 Mar 2022

    Kelsey's magazine approves her article about a sceptic's take on horoscopes and love. She's teamed up with astrology guru, Carter, to write about a local meteor shower festival, and through fate they discover that love can be written in the stars....

  • Prehistoric Planet

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    Issue date: 5 Aug 2022

    Travel back 66 million years to when majestic dinosaurs and extraordinary creatures roamed the lands, seas and skies. Format  Mini series Production companies Apple TV+, BBC Studios Series Producer Tim Walker Directors Andrew R. Jones, Adam...

  • 100 Men

    Film

  • In Spring One Plants Alone

    Film

    An aged woman lives with her fully grown and wholly dependant son. This Vincent Ward film is a rare view of an enclosed world where an 82-year-old woman, alone, is 'The Burdened One'. Filmed over a period of one and a half years, this emerges as...

  • Never Say Die

    Film

    The conspiracy plot is mostly an excuse for chases, capers and crashes galore, all imbued with plenty of pell-mell shenanigans (this time heading north in a red Falcon) by Goodbye Pork Pie director Geoff Murphy. The movie marked Temuera...

  • White Lies

    Film

    White Lies is a story about the nature of identity:  those who deny it and those who strive to protect it. Paraiti (Whirimako Black) is a medicine woman.  She is the healer and midwife of her rural, tribal people – she believes in life....

  • Don't Make Me Go

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    Issue date: 12 Jul 2022

    20 New Zealand cast 350+ New Zealand crew 800+ Extras Shot June – August 2021 31 Shoot days: 9 days South Island, 22 days Auckland...

  • Riven

    Film

    Riven is the dark fantasy tale of a warrior's struggle to accept loss. Anguished by the death of his wife, he journeys into the darkness of the forest to seek redemption in bringing her back from the dead. Lost in the mist of his grief, he must face...

  • Vai

    Film

    Fiji: In a modest dwelling in Fiji a 7 year-old girl with boundless energy tries to understand why she has to say goodbye to her home country and extended family as her mother prepares her to leave Fiji. Tonga: Vai, now 13, dreams of going to NZ to sing...

  • Coming Home in the Dark

    Film

    A family’s idyllic outing descends into terror when high school teacher Alan ‘Hoaggie’ Hoaganraad, his wife Jill and stepsons Maika and Jordon go exploring an isolated coastline. But an unexpected meeting with a pair of murderous...

  • Blood and Gold

    Film

    New Zealand, South Island, 1861. Bridget O’Casey, a hardened 35-year old grog seller, has just fought for her life. Injured and alone, Bridget takes a life-changing gold nugget, steals a horse and runs. Not far behind her, a pack of men with dogs...

  • Green

    Film

    Blake travels from the city to rural New Zealand to check on her father after a health scare. They haven’t spoken in some time and Blake is battling a serious diagnosis of her own. With the pleasantries over and health talk...

  • Separation City

    Film

    Separation City is a comedy-drama about the complications that ensue as two marriages collapse. Men's groups and midlife crises in contemporary Wellington make up the world in which the multi-national cast explores, in screenwriter Tom Scott's...

  • Whina

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    Issue date: 22 Jun 2022

    100+ New Zealand cast and crew 200+ locals hired as background talent 7 weeks filming in Hokianga and Waitangi, Northland    New Zealand Open set so community members...

  • Matariki

    Film

    Aleki, a master car thief who dreams of navigating by the stars, crosses paths with rebellious teenage girl Spit and faces his future. Rugby league star Tama saves the life of desperate Gunge - an act of heroism that brings tragedy to his own family....

  • Ngāti

    Film

  • Yellow is Forbidden

    Film

    Givenchy, Lagerfeld, Chanel, Dior Gaultier…. It is perhaps the most exclusive club in the world. 21.  Mostly men.  European. Now there may be another name added to that list. Guo Pei grew up during China’s Cultural Revolution,...

  • Dawn Raid

    Film

    Dawn Raid is the story of two Manukau Polytechnic students, Andy Murane and Tanielu Leaosavai'i (aka Brotha D) who turned a bootleg t-shirt business and Hip-Hop night at a local bar in Otara into the influential Dawn Raid Entertainment empire....

  • Don't Make Me Go

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    Issue date: 20 Jun 2022

    When single father Max (John Cho) discovers he has a terminal disease, he decides to try and cram all the years of love and support he will miss with his teenage daughter Wally (Mia Isaac) into the time he has left with her. With the promise of long-...

  • A Woman of Good Character/aka It's Lizzie to Those Close

    Film

    A Woman of Good Character is based on the pioneer novel by English author Elizabeth Gowans. The film is director David Blyth's second feature, following his debut Angel Mine.  The film was adapted to tele-movie length in 1983, with...