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One man's life is waylaid by a brief encounter. It will take his best friend to guide him back to love. Director Armagan Ballantyne's last film, Whistle She Rolls, was selected for the 1996 Venice Film Festival and went on to win second prize ar...

Phil Hearn is pushing 40 and feels every minute of it. He didn’t plan to have six kids and work a second job driving taxis to feed them all but that’s how his life is shaping up.   One stormy night in the city, Hatu...

DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT - Robert Sarkies "I got to the movies to enjoy the movie. Others go to chat or eat or sleep or make out. Am I weird?" "We all love going to the movies. There's a romance to it (yes even when you go alone)....

Audrey Foggin is a sultry young Catholic woman living in the 1950s.  She tries to break free of her drab, conformist existence - dominated by religious guilt and fear - by idealising her postie, Barry. Reality, however, turns out to be rather more...

Malama  is one of six short films that screened as part of Tala Pasifika, a groundbreaking Pacific Island drama series that screened on TV One in 1996. Malama  tells the story of Malama, a young girl who lost her eyesight in a car crash that...

Ma Te Wa Film Productions - established in 1999 to develop Needles and Glass into a theatrical short. Adapted for the screen by Susan Thrasher from the remarkable short story by Fiona Kidman, Ma Te Wa has endeavoured to gather film industry professionals...

Philosophy is an award winning short film about life, death and electricity. Set in a surreal landscape a young student of philosophy hitches a ride in a hearse only to find himself trapped and desperate to escape.

Sacred land… or Tapu, as Maori put it. This is a world where ritual and prayer is the only formidable respect that will pave our way. Respect of where we are standing. Respect for the events of the past. Respect for whatever immortal spirit waits...

DIRECTOR'S NOTES - Ian Hughes "The Waiting Room was written in 1995 while I was living in the city of Prague. Hometown of Franz Kafka. It wasn’t until I lived there that I fully comprehended his work. Life was a constant spiral of...

Director’s Statement - Kirsty Cameron In The Lethal Innocents I wanted to create a suburban fable to tell the story of a girl who does not conform to the cliched ideas of teenage right and wrong. These girls can be called many things –...

This early short from Roger Donaldson is a sci-fi caper for kids.  A singing and dancing gang led by 'Evil Eva' holds Auckland to ransom.  If they don't get their five mil, Eva will drop a nuclear bomb into the crater of Rangitoto...

A tragic loss draws Bernadette home from London to her family's isolated New Zealand farm. Upon her arrival she enters int the very heart of the complex relationship she has with her mother. Guided by memory she returns to her past where she re-...

Actor Murray Keane makes his film directing debut with this hilarious fable about man-scaping, genitalia and finding the perfect woman.  A young man who is struggling with intense sexual frustration wakes up with something decidedly odd happening...