• The Vintner's Luck

    Film

    The Vintner’s Luck is a story of love, wine and angels; recounting the life of Sobran Jodeau, a peasant winemaker and his life-long ambition to produce a great wine - a wine that has never before been tasted. Set in Burgundy in the years spanning...

  • The Strength of Water

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    Released in Kiwi cinemas in August 2009 - after winning praise at festivals in Berlin and Rotterdam - The Strength of Water marks the big-screen debut of Māori playwright Briar Grace-Smith, and Pākehā director Armagan Ballantyne. The film centres on a 10...

  • The Ferryman

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    The Ferryman, a classic horror film set in the South Pacific, commenced principal photography on March 31 and wrapped on May 13, 2006. Filming took place on Auckland's Waitemata Harbour, Waiheke Island, Birkenhead Point and Kelly Park in Wainui north...

  • Perfect Creature

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    Perfect Creature is a highly original retelling of the vampire myth, set in an alternate version of the 1960’s. Science fiction and horror coalesce in a suspenseful, elegant, action film about race, serial killings and the capacity of human beings...

  • In My Father's Den

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  • Nemesis Game

    Film

    A co-production between New Zealand, Canada and the UK, Nemesis Game began as an idea by director Jesse Warn to write a screenplay around the idea that riddles are a metaphor for life. Warn and his producing partner Matthew Metcalfe teamed up with...

  • The Beatles: Get Back

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    Issue date: 26 Nov 2021

    Directed by three-time Oscar®-winning filmmaker Peter Jackson (The Lord of the Rings trilogy, They Shall Not Grow Old), The Beatles: Get Back takes audiences back in time to the band’s January 1969 recording sessions, which became a pivotal...

  • Bonjour Timothy

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    Bonjour Timothy is a comedic teenage love story from director Wayne Tourell. Timothy Taylor is your average teenage whose life is disrupted by the arrival of a French Canadian exchange student. Because of a simple spelling mistake on a fax, the...

  • Cops and Robbers

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    John is having trouble with his ex-wife. He's also bankrupt. And he can't find buyers for his warehouse full of parrots. Because of all these troubles, he decides to blow his brains out. But his suicide attempt is interrupted by a cute young cop...

  • Alex

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  • The Navigator

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    A young boy is afflicted by apocalyptic visions in medieval Cumbria. Believing he is divinely inspired to save his village from the Black Death, he persuades a group of men to follow him into a tunnel. They dig deep into the earth and emerge ... in...

  • My Life is Murder - Season One

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    Issue date: 30 Aug 2021

    Finding herself back home in Aotearoa (NZ) for the first time in years, Alexa can’t help herself when she is asked to look into a bizarre unsolved murder. And then – like an itch she can’t help scratching – Alexa quickly finds herself investigating other...

  • When We Were Kids

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    Jade has joined her best friend Michelle for a day at the pools. She is in the throws of puberty, and she desperately wants to be older than her young thirteen years. Jade talks to a reluctant Michelle about sex, revealing she has heard her neighbours...

  • Juniper

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    Issue date: 28 Oct 2021

    On returning home from boarding school, a self-destructive teenager discovers his gin-soaked grandmother has moved in.  A battle of wills ensues which enables him to embrace life again, and her to face her own mortality. Format  Feature Film...

  • Flip

    Film

    When we meet Flip she is living in a cycle of abuse with a beastlike soldier, Helmet. She has managed to keep her daughter Plug relatively safe, fed, alive and so far Helmet has not turned his attentions towards her. Plug is the light in her life, the...

  • Black Widow

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    Issue date: 8 Jul 2021

    In Marvel Studios’ action-packed spy thriller Black Widow, Natasha Romanoff aka Black Widow confronts the darker parts of her ledger when a dangerous conspiracy with ties to her past arises. Pursued by a force that will stop at nothing to bring her...

  • A Love Yarn

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    Issue date: 3 May 2021

    The owner of a quaint New Zealand yarn shop, Sophie Markham, gets her world flipped upside down after learning her top supplier of yarn, King Farms, is stopping production. Much to her surprise, the charming yet stuck-in-his-ways Samuel King has traveled...

  • Together Forever Tea

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    Issue date: 9 Jul 2021

    Marketing whiz Lara Thompson is living a fast-paced life in the big city when she's summoned to the sleepy town of Kissing Falls to settle the affairs of her late Aunt Vivienne who owned a tea shop. Screen Incentives  New Zealand Screen Production...

  • Midnight Till 8

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    Set in small town New Zealand in the 80’s, Midnight Till 8 follows Cam, a 10-year-old boy who’s having trouble connecting with his father. He joins his dad on the Midnight Till 8 shift where home rules don’t apply. Cam helps with the...

  • Topping Out

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    As two Irish workmen scale the scaffolding of a London high-rise, their jovial storytelling, kindly lessons imparted and joke sharing rapidly descends into distrust, as the boss suspects his young apprentice of being involved with his wife. Upset and...

  • The Meek

    Film

    In a world where a deadly virus is wiping out humanity, a 12-year-old girl with Down syndrome is left in the care of her survivalist uncle. Frank, at ease with a gun and living off the land, has little sympathy for a kid like Izzy. The frosty...

  • Cousins

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    3 Māori cousins. Mata, introverted, watchful, a seer of spirits, the child of a Māori mother and an abusive Pākehā (white) father. Makareta, raised to be the princess of her tribe, spoilt and educated in both worlds. Missy, cheeky, insecure and often...

  • Honk If You're Horny

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    Honk if You’re Horny is a ribald comedy about tall stories and our bizarre need to pretend to be something we’re not, as well as the folly of being too quick to judge a book by its cover. On a rainy night in Auckland city, an enigmatic...

  • Hot Mother

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    Inspired by a true story, Hot Mother is a is the tale of a single mother and her contemptuous daughter, who go to a spa retreat to spend time together. Set over the course of one afternoon, the pair seem unable to connect; the divide between them is too...

  • Baby Done

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    When arborists, Zoe and Tim find out they are having a baby, they resolve to not let parenthood change them. Tim runs towards being a Dad, while Zoe runs away from being a mum - trying to live out her long-deferred dreams. Terrified that her life won...

  • There is No I in Threesome

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    Zoe and Ollie are in love, freshly engaged, and long distance. A couple of goofy creatives doing things their way. With two cold beds to fill and vows of undying commitment looming, both agree to cheat on the other. A risqué experiment in love and a...

  • Woodenhead

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    Woodenhead is filmmaker Florian Habicht's first feature, in which he was not only director but also writer, producer, co-cinematographer and co-editor. The entire dialogue and soundtrack for Woodenhead was pre-recorded. The visuals...

  • Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen

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    An intimate story of the birth of indigenous cinema told from the perspective of Merata’s son Hepi Mita. The sudden death of pioneering Māori filmmaker Merata Mita in 2010 led her son on a journey to uncover a story of a mother’s love that...

  • Beyond The Edge

    Film

    Sir Edmund Hillary’s incredible achievement remains one of the greatest adventure stories of all time; the epic journey of a man from modest beginnings who overcame adversity to reach the highest point on Earth. Both a classic triumph of the...

  • Manurewa

    Film

    The last light of a cold winter’s day sees Isaac, a 17-year old boy, traversing the vacuum of industrial wasteland and empty suburbia. Meanwhile a young mother worships in the warm sphere of a Sikh Gurdwara; her husband Navraj stuck working at the...

  • Day Trip

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    A gang member wakes up one morning and decides he needs a day off. Inspired by a newspaper advertisement he impulsively decides to take a short ferry trip between islands. With his tattooed face, black leather clothing, and prominent gang patch, the...

  • Mr. Corman

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    Issue date: 5 Aug 2021

    Fast facts 47% New Zealand cast 46 New Zealand cast members 88% New Zealand crew 208 New Zealand crew 16 New Zealand HoDs Approx 200 New Zealand vendors...

  • Wait

    Film

    Joyena (7) trails behind her mother and brothers after school as they walk to a hospital. Waiting for hours, she jumps excitedly up and races towards her father, Shen Wei, as he emerges from the wards. Shen Wei is surprised to see his family at his...

  • Southland's Home

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    Southland’s Home is a quirky, dark comedy set in rural Southland, 1972. Nell is a timid teenager who ends up a resident at a Home for disturbed young women… but why is she there? The last of its kind, the home is downtrodden and neglected,...

  • Mr. Corman

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    Issue date: 6 Aug 2021

    From writer, director, executive producer, and starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt (500 Days of Summer, Inception, Don Jon), Mr. Corman follows the days and nights of Josh Corman, an artist at heart but not by trade. Things haven’t been going his way...

  • Go The Dogs

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    Brittany is a thirteen-year old girl with autism, a keen football fan and a supporter of Melbourne’s Western Bulldogs. When she spies a real bulldog sitting outside her window, she slips out of the house. She unwittingly embarks on a strange...