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In New Zealand's outback, a stunning blond wearing high-topped blue boots and a matching mini-skirted dress rises from her motel bed while a TV newscaster reports on weird  blue lights that were seen in the sky last night. When the blond starts...

Cammy Anders is thirteen and lives in a motel in a small-coastal town.  She appears to be suffering from bulimia. Her brother is an introvert who spends hours building elaborate matchstick houses and her mother is searching for a new start by...

Dean and Jenny arrive in the middle of nowhere and begin digging and drilling a large well. Whatever it is they expect to find is not there; the well is dry.  Dean, an already angry man by nature, is far from happy.  He is equally disgruntled...

This is an early example of a 'cyber film', a technique where the entire film is made inside a computer.  The filmmakers took their rough pencil sketches and built the film from there.  It's a time consuming process from creating an...

The tale of Redman and Bluewoman - two quirky bush critters who cut to the chase in a road-kill race around New Zealand. This live action cartoon poses the question - are thousands of possums really being run over all around the country, or is it just...

Tony loves Milly. The only problem is that Tony is married to to Karen, and Karen has a love for guns. Starring Jed Brophy, this film also features Jemaine Clement in an early film role as a Tongan ninja.

Bella is the story of a transsexual man - incarcerated by prison and by the walls of a New Zealand minimum security prison - making a courageous stand against oppression. In the brutal environment of a male prison, Bella Te Tomo is paradoxically, and...

DIRECTOR'S NOTES -Fiona Samuel TVNZ commissioned seven hour-long dramas in 1996, to play as a series on Sunday nights. Home Movie is one of them. I wrote the script, based on the short story A Home Movie by Fiona Farrell. I...

Based on a live performance, this film epitomises the idea of Pasifika tribal fusion.  Veteran cinematographer Warrick ‘Waka’ Attewell has brought together the talents of composer Gareth Farr, percussion group Strike and choreographer...

A dark tale of friendship, desperation and betrayal, Wasted is the story of three friends at the end of the line, and of the astonishing sacrifices they must make before a fiendish twist in the tale delivers a final, desperate blow to their chances of...

Director Garth Maxwell and long-time writing partner Rex Pilgrim began developing When Love Comes four years before making the film, following their screenplay collaboration on the highly regarded feature Jack Be Nimble which Maxwell also directed....

With ad-space during off-peak times being relatively cheap, Wellington-based producer, Barry Thomas, hit upon the idea of using these spaces to make very short films.  Film as haiku, so to speak.   From 110 applicants, a panel of judges...

In the musty chambers of a thousand year old monastery there lived Elmer, a monk who dreamed of nothing more than being able to fly to visit his Creator. So Elmer invented a wing system and tragically jumped into the wind filled abyss. Judged as a...

When she stumbles upon a strange woman they agree to share a delicious afternoon of talking. Despite no common language, both lonely women are enchanted by the sound of another's voice. A pact to return is made. But can the road she has come by ever...

It's 1970 and the dragnet of New Zealand suburbia is closing in on nine-year-old Jonny. Police, parents and a stool pigeon - they all want him for questioning. Jonathan Ogilvie is an award-winning filmmaker.  His short films...

Owen Hughes Footage is a journey into the depths of their soles.

Nina lives with her family in a Croatian migrant enclave in the suburbs of Auckland. Brought to New Zealand by her mother Mira after the outbreak of war in her homeland, Nina faces a new life in a new land. Nina's relationship with her domineering...

Early one morning three young children are in the orchard.  They are stealing the old man's apples when the trouble begins... An old man lives high above a seaside village which one morning is jolted by a sharp earthquake. Nobody is hurt, but...

London, 1983. Thousands of New Zealanders have gone to London for their overseas experience.  They might as well have stayed at home.  They get to London, go straight to a party full of New Zealanders and talk about life back home....

Is one of these two a murderer?  Is one of them mad?  Will the elevator ever reach the bottom? Maybe.... Maybe not. Going Down  is a gripping yarn with some gentle comentary on social bigotry.

To celebrate 100 years of New Zealand cinema, two trailers were made, this one by Greg Page, and another by John O'Shea.  Follwong on from Page's claymation shorts, Decaff and Decaff II, stop-motion plasticine representations of iconic...

Vincent Chan is a young New Zealander struggling with himself. David Chan thinks his son is ashamed to be Chinese. Vincent knows things are different now.  Swan Soon offers him an illicit world of ritual and reward. Must Vincent choose between...

With no dialogue, this impressionistic film follows a jazz-loving woman at a Czech railway station.  She’s pursued by a young man and winds up dancing and kissing as records spin on the turntable.  She meets his parents and is invited to...

Wayne's the new guy in the office, but he's not trying to make any new friends.  So Roger's a bit suspicious when he drops by after work.  By the time Wayne leaves, Roger's in the frame - without an alibi.  But he does have...

Anything for Art? Robbire is a drug dealer who imagines himself superior to the addicts he supplies. He regards himself as an artist, a painter. But he needs heroin to maintain that illusion. The truth is he's caught in a creative slump, making art...

Director Jonothan Ogilvie cut his filmmaking teeth making music videos for Flying Nun bands.  He shot the Super-8 footage used in this short while at the Cannes Film Festival with an earlier short, Despondent Divorcee.

DIRECTOR’S NOTES Walter Perryman is a radio announcer of the old school. His on-air persona is a model of BBC perfection; he cares about his listeners, plays soothing music, and always wears a bow tie on air.  But this is the 1960s and times...

DIRECTOR'S NOTES - Sima Urale Inspired by my own experience as a child growing up surrounded by relatives struggling with Samoan and Western cultures, O Tamaiti, is about the unconditional bond among children in Pacific Island families....

Chicken is the first feature from director Grant Lahood (Kombi Nation, Intersexion). He had previously garnered international success from his short films, including The Singing Trophy, which was selected for the 1993 Cannes Film Festival...

The Hairy Maclary stories are the most successful series of children’s books ever published in New Zealand, selling millions of copies worldwide since the first book’s publication in 1983.  This series of ten animated tales follow the...

 Decaff II brings back the grumpy claymation character creator Greg Page introduced in Decaff for five new episodes. Greg Page went on to direct horror flick, The Locals.

When an advertisement seen in the street – LOUND ACT REQUIRES FEAMLE SINGER – ignites Marlene’s dormant dreams of glamour and freedom, she embarks on a dangerous journey of transformation. Writer/director Fiona Samuel comes from a...