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Eric (TOM BRENNAN) is their natural leader. Older, urbane and persuasive, he instigates the walkout. Thomas (CTIBOR TURBA), an enigmatic European revolutionary who speaks little English, is frustrated in his mission and eventually finds himself stranded...

Tawhai Bennet's first job is helping Mrs Jones on the rural delivery round during the school holidays. Mrs Jones is a widow who is renown for her sharp tongue, but also her tremendous spirit and pride. Over the weeks that they are working together,...

This psychadelic animation follows the spirit of a person who dies in a car crash on the motorway.  On it's way to Te Rerenga (Cape Reinga), the life force (wairua) of the victim travels through forests and beaches, meeting other spirits and...

Directed by Bruce Morrison, the movie echoes the style of Hollywood melodrama, while simultaneously critiquing the dream.

In late May, 1978, 142 carpenters and labourers on the Mangere Bridge construction site in Auckland were sacked over a redundancy dispute.  The bridge workers declared the job 'black' and began to picket the site. The company retaliated by...

A car crashes on a lonely road in the early morning. The tow-truck driver who is called out to salvage the wreck is Al Shaw (BRUNO LAWRENCE). Once an international Grand Prix racing star, Al returned home to take over his father's business, a...

Harry and Pheno, both young people in dead-end jobs, meet by chance one day and decide to rebel. They embark on a freedom binge, first painting graffitti then moving on to more daring escapades. A cop is soon on their tail, but he starts to falter when...

Using Kingi's own memories, this film shows how the problems in his life led him into ineveitable conflict with the law. It is not until he is in the solitary confinement of a police cell that Kingi starts to think about his life. His relationship...

English conservationist Richard St Barbe Baker, here aged 92,  presents his ideas with a simple and desperate clarity: "We have to plant forest trees for our lives". He brings world attentiont to the alarming rate at which the world's...

Peter Young’s documentary celebrates the passionate artists and entrepreneurs who battled to protect the creative heart of their city amongst the ruins of post-quake Christchurch. After staid, conservative Christchurch was shaken to its...

Middle Age Spread was the feature debut from director John Reid (Carry Me Back), as well as the debut of cinematographer Alun Bollinger (Goodbye Pork Pie), writer Keith Aberdein (Utu) and editor Mike Horton (Once Were Warriors). Based on the 1977 play by...

Angel Mine is director David Blyth's first feature film, for which he wrote the script as well. Angel Mine explores the ways in which consumerism and materialism govern lives in middle class suburbia, and how this affects the dreams and fantasies of...

Rose's Tale is the debut short film from Michael Winkelman, a New Zealander who has been based in Bristol, England, for the last 15 years. The story is based on a friend's recounting of an actual experience with the location being transferred...

Two New Zealand feature films and one short film have been selected to screen at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival (TiFF).  Nic Gorman’s debut feature, Human Traces and anthology film, Waru, written and directed by nine Māori women will...

We are excited to announce the successful applicants for this year’s piloted Interactive Development Fund. The programme supports concept development of original narrative-focused interactive and games content delivered on any platform (including mobile...

The Rialto Channel NZ Film Awards (nicknamed Moas) were presented on Saturday 18 February in a glittering yet irreverent ceremony at Auckland’s ASB Showgrounds. At times it was a roller-coaster of emotions for nominees as popular favourites cemented...

Seven films have been offered funding in the June Fresh Shorts round, four at the $10,000 level, and three at the $30,000. This is the first round of Fresh Shorts Funding in which the shortlisted teams were required to attend a three-day residential...

Following is a transcript of NZFC CEO Dave Gibson's 25 September presentation at the 2016 Big Screen Symposium. Today I want to talk about and pose some questions around In amongst this I want to talk about some things we are doing...

Poi E will debut as part of the NZ International Film Festival. It's a song turned into a movie and the world premiere of Poi E: The Story of Our Song will open the NZ International Film Festival on July 14 in Auckland. The documentary about the ...

Following is a transcript of NZFC CEO Dave Gibson's presentation to industry in Auckland on 26 April 2016. Approximately 12 months ago we launched the NZFC gender policy as part of developing a wider diversity policy. I don’t think we need to spend any...

New Zealand films will be in the spotlight at the Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival (GZDOC) which runs 7-10 December. Five documentaries directed by New Zealand women will be showcased at the festival which hosts screenings in both...

Now in its fourth week of release, Tammy Davis' feature film Born to Dance has taken one million dollars at the New Zealand box office and remains in the top ten chart of films currently in theatrical release. Written by Steve Barr, Casey Whelan and...

Three New Zealand films have been included in the programme of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival (TiFF).  Tammy Davis’ Born To Dance and Leanne Pooley’s 25 April will have their World Premieres at...

For the first time in twenty years, two New Zealand films are included in the programme for the Venice Film Festival announced today. Jake Mahaffy’s Free In Deed will screen in the Orizzonti Section of the festival and Pietra Brettkelly’s...

For Anzac Day and to remember those who gave their lives for our country, we're sharing some films about New Zealanders and their unique experiences of war on our VOD site, New Zealand Film on Demand. There are two features and two short films. War...

POI E: THE STORY BEHIND OUR SONG is now shooting in Auckland and Patea, Taranaki, the home of origin for the iconic New Zealand anthem. Written and directed by Tearepa Kahi (Mt Zion) and starring Maaka Pohatu (The Modern Māori Quartet, Two Little Boys)...

Following is NZFC CEO Dave Gibson's speech delivered on Sunday 28 September 2014 at the Big Screen Symposium in Auckland. Challenges and Changes:  The challenges facing the film industry today and introducing changes the NZFC is planning Earlier...

Kia hiwa ra! Kia hiwa ra! Kia hiwa rā ki tēnēi tuku, kia hiwa rā ki tērā tuku, kia tū kia mātara! Congratulations to the three teams selected to receive funding from the inaugural He Ara development scheme: Blacklands - $50,000 Blacklands...

Director’s Notes – Veialu Aila-Unsworth “I have eaten many a hot meal off this plate design - either at my Great Aunt’s or during a student-flat dinner. It still makes me laugh to think that such an elegant plate, with such a...

In his new movie, Spooked, Geoff Murphy takes an intriguing series of events from 1992 New Zealand as his starting point and, making a daring imaginative jump, spins it to where all good 21st century conspiracies lead – Osama Bin Laden and the CIA...

Director’s Notes - Nancy Brunning In 2004 I read an early draft of Journey to Ihipa. I said to myself, if I were a filmmaker, I’d want to direct this one. I had directed for theatre before but never for film, and what was important to me at...

DIRECTOR’S NOTES "To date, old New Zealand has been portrayed in cinema as a dark and cold land of deep foreboding; the final frontier, a savage place of no return. My aim was to show ancient Aotearoa as a green, and heat filled land full of...

Teenagers Zig and Jaffa get totally wasted, and as always take the broken path from the house to Jaffa’s shed to play Redemption. They have discovered a way to take the violence and pain in their young lives and transform it into pleasure, healing...

The boy’s anxiety is further increased by his mother’s self-absorption in the break up of her marriage and her hurried return home. But it seems that there are stronger powers at play.  This young boy has a gift, a gift of ‘seeing...