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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...

A Woman's Heart is a tantalising blend of the real and the surreal; a story of the impossible becoming possible.

TOPLESS WOMEN TALK ABOUT THEIR LIVES is irreverent, ironic, funny and tragic. It's the story of a group of dysfunctional friends and their encounters witht he absurdities of contemporary life. So what about a synopsis? As creator Harry Sinclair...

Mark Clare (best known as the bungy jumper in the 1992 Instant Kiwi ad) plays a real estate agent who loves a song and dance.  When he discovers he can make music with the creaky floorboards of an old villa, he’s delighted.  But something...

Director Dorthe Scheffmann developed her filmmaking craft within the emerging New Zealand film industry during the ‘70s and ‘80s.  She earned crew credits in a multiplicity of roles from continuity to production supervisor. ...

Donut and Racehorse are two young slobs of minimal intellect living in a rundown suburban shack. Today they are expecting their very first visit by a couple of young ladies and are more than excited. Awaiting their guests' arrival, Racehorse and...

Jo has purchased an old villa in the suburbs.  While settling in, she discovers a problem in her bathroom.  Spiders.  Jo hates spiders. She decides to call in a professional. When the pest control man investigates, he opens a Pandora...

PRODUCER'S NOTES - Glenis Giles Shoes evolved from The Refugee Shuffle, a simple but powerful theatre performance by Sally Rodwell, Robin Nathan and Madeline McNamara using just sticks and shoes. When I first saw this work (as part of a...

The jazzy score and trench-coat wearing protagonist in this claymation short promise film noir.  But it soon becomes apparent that the room for rent has something more sinister lurking in it to explain its availability and lack of furnishing. When...

No-one ever spoke about how he lost his voice… Miranda Harcourt’s lucid tribute to her broadcaster father, Voiceover explores the trauma suffered by a young radio announcer with a golden voice as he broadcasts World War II messages home...

Joey and Will make a dawn pilgrimage to fish on the wild and brooding west coast. Swept into the sea by a sudden wave, Joey desperately fights for his life - a struggle with a savagely unexpected outcome.

In an untamed colonial landscape, a Victorian lighthouse engineer struggles to complete the light beacon that will ultimately test the very core of his being.

A book falls from above, instructing Ivan to prepare an intimate dinner for two.  This humourous vignette explores the anticipation of an evening with a much-awaited and prepared-for guest. Writer/director John McAloon is a graduate of the...

They are dropped into a pure digital environment and are literally trapped inside the matrix. They must make sense of the signposts which appear around them in order to escape. These engaging characters propel the viewer into a fascinating story. You...