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The small downstairs apartment is a dream come true for Rata (Vanessa Rare), and Ruby (Yvonne Lawley) encourages her agent to rent it to the suitable young businesswoman she sees from her window. With a helpful and friendly tenant to keep an eye on...

In a world where lawns regularly need mowing but where nothing else much grows, life for Gwyneth is linked to the mailbox. The mailbox is Gwyneth's point of contact with fantasy. An unpredictable site delivering mysterious signs and messages from...

Helmed by veteran actor/writer/director Ian Mune (director - What Becomes of the Broken Hearted, director/writer - Billy T: Te Movie), The End of the Golden Weather is based on the play of the same name by renowned New Zealand...

Based on a short story by Frances Cherry, One Man's Meat stars Donogh Rees as a wife teetering on the brink of insanity.  Jo struggles with dinner, the raw meat in her kitchen too much for her to deal with.  She falls into a dream-state and...

River, a new age composer, lives in the solitiude of Tranquility Valley.  There he can record water running and animal noises on his home made recording equipment without fear of interrruption. Life is good for River until Ted, a heavy metal fan...

DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT The Minute  is a 7 minute film about two-and-a-half hours of growing paranoia. A man receives a parcel from his wife with a note stating it cannot be opened until midday. "I read a newspaper story about a man who was...

Based partly on two real-life events that happened in Europe, this is a darkly comic film. The butcher leaves his young son to look after the shop so he can go upstairs for a little nooky with his wife. Things explode into a bloody mess what with rent...

Filmed in one continuous shot, this is a confronting film about a young boy's relationship with an older man.  Staring directly at the camera, a boy talks about his first sexual experience at Scout camp.  The confession raises several...

Director David Blyth was won over by Michael Heath’s script because it reversed convention, and “was a plea for children to be allowed to keep and develop their imaginations”.

From romance, drug deals and an imported hitman, to Swiss bank accounts and the occasional killing, Don Reynold's Dangerous Orphans is a pacy urban thriller which takes a seemingly straight-forward story and turns it into a tense, violent,...

In Murray Ball's iconic cartoon strips - and now in the animated feature film - the day-to-day events of Footrot Flats are chronicled by an extremely intelligent dog with a great sense of his own worth. He is simply known as "Dog"....

There's panic on the streets as 19-year-old tearaway Ska (Matthew Hunter) comes to terms with love and death in Auckland's 80s urban underworld. After an ultimately tragic attempt to 'rescue' his prostitute sister, Ska plots revenge at a...

This early short from Alison Maclean (Kitchen Sink, Crush) is a comedy about a disconnected New Zealand family.  Nan has been recently widowed. As she  prepares the Sunday roast for her family, she assesses her life and where she fits into her...

Starring both Don McGlashan and Harry Sinclair from The Front Lawn, this slice-of-life short shows the people of Auckland's K Road in their natural habitat.  Structured in the same relay style as Richard Linkater's Slacker, the two actors...

Peter Jackson's breakthrough feature, Bad Taste, began as a 20 minute short titled Roast of the Day, the simple tale of a charity worker who meets a terrible fate in a small town. The motive for making the film was for Jackson to try...

Their curiosity is fuelled when a caller reveals that Roger's wife is in labour. The talkback lines run hot - but Joanah suspects it's not the happy event her callers believe it to be. Through the night, Jonah becomes increasingly drawn to the...

Gaylene Preston's insightful documentary about writer Keri Hulme was filmed two years after the writer's Booker Prize win for The Bone People.  It is partly a love story to Hulmes hometown of Okarito and a musing on the writer's creative...

When a young woman returns to the Greek island where her family came from to visit an aunt still living there, she discovers the contrasts between the life-styles of two women living in different cultures. . A personal and poignant documentary film...

Footage shot for this revealing documentary became the basis for Herbs' music video for their hit, Sensitive to a Smile. When Herbs made the decision to celebrate their record release in Ruatoria, a town divided by a Rastafarian sect whose actions...

It is 1930. The Great Depression has spread far afield from its Wall Street beginnings to wreck havoc on rural New Zealand. The land is rich but the money has gone. Farmers who can afford it are living off their savings but others have already been...

In this dark comedy about obsession, people reach absurd states in search of their unique little highs. Music, oddball characters and weird noises combine to create fully realised and recognisable world in which the pursuit of pleasre is all...

Award-winning filmmaker Gregor Nicholas and celebrated contemprary dancer and choreographer Douglas Wright collaborate in a film which evokes Brassai's Paris, Orson Welles's Vienna and W. C. Handy's New Orleans. The dancers split and merge...