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Recent immigrant from Sri Lanka, 56-year-old Perianayaki’s day begins as it does every day - at her dead-end job stacking shelves at the local supermarket. As a result of her inability to speak English, she struggles to fit in and build meaningful...

Breathe tells the story of Jaehee, a twelve-year-old girl with a special yet unorthodox ability to heal those who claim to be possessed. Her father has exploited her gift, readily accepting money from those seeking peace from their tormented lives....

Through the eyes of eight protagonists, We Are Still Here traverses 1000 years from past,present, and future to explore stories of kinship, loss, grief, and resilience. But ultimately, it shows the strength of love and hope to overcome shared...

Sam (17) has been on a self-destructive spiral that could lead to his death. He returns home from boarding school to find his wheelchair-bound English grandmother, Ruth has moved in. Ruth is an ex- war photographer with a lust for life and a love of the...

The New Zealand Screen Production Rebate (NZSPR) is a government-back screen incentives scheme available to international and domestic productions (including Official Co-productions). The New Zealand Film Commission administers film and...

DIRECTOR'S NOTES - Costa Botes "I originally conceived this idea around 1990 and sketched out most of the main sequences and narrative threads. About a year later, I mentioned it to Peter Jackson, and he was keen to get involved. Together...

The reappearance of Charlie Davies, an old friend and recently returned serviceman, marks a turning point. They marry and he devotes himself to her recovery. Reunited with Penny they become a family and set out to share in the new life promised after the...

All resources relating to the NZSPR and Co-Productions can be found here including guidelines, templates, FAQs and funding information.

From the director of Crush. Director's Statement "The story came to me in much the same way as events unfold for the woman in the film.  I could see this hair sticking out of the plughole and on closer inspection, the story began to...

This Transparency Statement (Statement) explains how the New Zealand Film Commission (NZFC, our or we) manages information gathered about members of the public or other entities (directly or indirectly) in accordance with the Information Gathering...

Matt is your typical angst ridden fourteen-year-old boy. It’s just his Mum, Jo, and little brother Artie in the house after their Dad died, so Matt is often called the man of the house. Matt sets off when he learns of Jo’s plans to sell...

A snapshot of life on a remote, picturesque island in the south Pacific through the eyes of a young Polynesian girl. As she ventures out on her daily routine she encounters the familiar faces of her family and the small community that she loves. Like her...

Seven-year-old David is sick of being left behind. He convinces his lumberjack Father into taking him into the rugged bush of New Zealand, but his eleven-year-old brother Nathan, doesn’t think David’s up to the challenge. That night in the...

Director’s Notes - Christopher Clark “My grandfathers served in New Zealand’s armed forces for the duration of World War Two. Returning to their families as changed men, their selfless duty and subsequent lives as ‘ordinary...

Every culture has its stories and its heroes. In recent years Māori culture has also had its share of anti-heroes on the big screen and none more so than Jake the mus in Once Were Warriors. Whilst this film reflected the very real pressures on Māori...

The Dead Lands is the fourth feature by acclaimed New Zealand director Toa Fraser (Dean Spanley, No. 2, Giselle) and is based on a script by Glenn Standring (Perfect Creature, The Irrefutable Truth About Demons). It was produced by Matthew Metcalfe (Dean...

Merata Mita’s documentary captures the mass civil disobedience that took place during the winter of 1981.

Now isolated by lack of numbers, time and distance, the remaining survivors form a tight-knit community which outsiders find impenetrable. Rewi's deceit forces him to become part of that community and his life is inextricably interwoven with those...

Punch is a contemporary film about love, loyalty and liberation. Jim is a seventeen-year old boxer in a small town. He is a golden boy, preparing for a fight that will elevate him to an early professional status. All bets are on his climb to success. But...

What does the Film Commission do? We are a government agency that invests in New Zealand feature films and short films. We aim to contribute production financing to between ten and 12 feature films each year.  We help talented...

What is discovered in these stories is emotion that has been long repressed in pain, smothered in shame, or disregarded as insignificantly personal in the context of the international disaster of war. The film begins with a tale that is almost familiar,...

A contemporary story with a strong message, The Pā Boys, follows a fictional Wellington reggae band as they embark on a tour 'down north', from Wellington to Cape Reinga. Staring Fran Kora (from the band KORA) and Matariki Whatarau (Go Girls,...

Jane Campion brings to the screen the harrowing true-life story of Janet Frame, New Zealand’s most distinguished author.  The film follows Frame along her inspiring journey, from a poverty-stricken childhood to a misdiagnosis of schizophrenia...

Among the Cinders is a ‘coming-of-age’ film adapted from the novel by Maurice Shadbolt. Director Rolf Haedrich, who’s made films in Germany since 1958, came to New Zealand to direct and also wrote the screenplay with veteran producer...

Academy Award nominated director Taika Waititi gathered a talented crew to bring to audiences the bigger picture of life’s little moments. “Eagle vs Shark isn’t a romantic comedy rather a slightly dark, amusing tale with a little bit...

It's the year 2043. Political factions had come to a head after a war broke apart North America. In that process, Canada joined the United States, caving to the argument that the alliance was necessary for survival of the Government (previously,...

The Aramoana tragedy is one of the more significant events in New Zealand's recent history. Says director Rob Sarkies, "These events highlight the positive side of the kiwi spirit as much as darkness of the actions of one man. The people of...

New Zealand, 1963. A year after the passing of her mother, eight year old Hine and her father Whai, still grieve. One Sunday morning the water stops flowing into the house so while her father fixes it, Hine does the washing at the river. While there she...