• 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

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  • In Spring One Plants Alone

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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  • Yellow is Forbidden

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    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

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    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

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    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...

  • Nude Tuesday

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    Issue date: 15 Jun 2022

    Fast Facts 100+ New Zealand crew 33 New Zealand cast 21 shoot days in Makarora and Cardrona 8 shoot days in Auckland Nude Tuesday stars Jackie van Beek (What We Do In...

  • Nude Tuesday

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    Issue date: 16 Jun 2022

    In an effort to rekindle the spark in their troubled marriage, 40-somethings Laura and Bruno head to a three day couples’ retreat run by relationship and sexual healing guru Bjorg Rasmussen. Upon arrival, the path to their reconnection is met with...

  • Shaker Run

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    Judd and Casey's existence contrasts sharply with the activity at a mysterious government research facility nearby. Something very important is happening as armed guards arrive and a tight security screen is imposed. The staff, particularly Dr...

  • Fresh Meat

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    Fresh Meat is a unique blend of comedy, horror and action.  Penned by Briar Grace-Smith, the film was directed by Danny Mulheron who has worked in a variety of roles and mediums over the years, including a stint with Peter Jackson in LA working on...

  • A Guide to Becoming a Detective

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    A Guide to Becoming a Detective is a short film about beautiful encounters, and our fond and sometimes warped memories of those moments. In the disguise of a detective narrative, we find a Sherlock Holmes wannabe and a bumbling sidekick wading through...

  • The Calf

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    At some point in our lives we are all faced with grief. With death. With the loss of our corner stones. It’s hard enough as an adult to lose a loved one but for a child it can turn the world upside down. THE CALF is an exploration of a child’...

  • Beyond The Known World

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    When 19 year old Eva fails to return home to New Zealand from India, her estranged parents, Carl and Julie, must reunite to find her. Their journey takes them from coastal Auckland, to the chaos of New Delhi, and on to idyllic Himalayan villages, where...

  • Maui's Hook

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    On the anniversary of his father’s suicide, Tama (Niwa Whatuira), a young man fuelled by drugs, alcohol and violence, spirals into anger and despair. As Tama travels the destructive road of no return, he becomes intertwined with five courageous...

  • Cargo

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    DIRECTORS NOTES - Leo Woodhead “I remember the moment the idea for Cargo popped into my head. A friend of mine was writing a script about restorative justice, and we got to talking about amnesty international and current topics in Europe. It...

  • Tama

    Film

    Gibson is a hardworking part Māori man living in Blenheim.  He starts the day early, hard at work in the vineyard. There is a stillness to the home he now dwells in, alone. We see the different parts of his life pieced together in images. Although...

  • Beyond Gravity

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    Featuring extensive footage of Queen Street in 1988, this is a troubled - and troubling- romance for gay and straight audiences alike.

  • Beyond Reasonable Doubt

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    The police led by Inspector Bruce Hutton (DAVID HEMMINGS) had little to go on. No bodies, few clues, no motive. For three months a massive search operation concetrated on finding the victims - a local farmer and his wife. Suspicion focussed on the woman...

  • Flight of the Albatross

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  • Kiwi Christmas

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