Subgenre Sampler
New Zealand > Drama: 207 Films to Buy & Rent
- Bliss: The Beginning of Katherine Mansfield (2011)
- Dir. Fiona Samuel
Feat. Kate Elliot, Sarah Peirse, Peter Elliot…
- Revealing portrait of the early years of New Zealand's most celebrated writer Katharine Mansfield, movingly played by Kate Elliot.
- Curry Munchers (2011)
- Dir. Cristobal Araus Lobos
Feat. Aunanda Naaido, Alison Titulaer, Ben Mitchell
- Knockabout comedy has a young Indian immigrant struggling to catch the attention of kiwi girls.
- Hook, Line and Sinker (Hook, Line & Sinker) (2011)
- Dir. Andrea Bosshard, Shane Loader
Feat. Rangimoana Taylor, Carmel McGlone, Geraldine Brophy
- A blue–collar truck driver struggles to cope with his failing eyesight, despite the love and support of his family, in this grassroots gem from…
- My Wedding and Other Secrets (2011)
- Dir. Roseanne Liang
Feat. Michelle Ang, Matt Whelan, Kenneth Tsang…
- Dir. Roseanne Liang adapts her winning documentary (BANANA IN A NUTSHELL) on the struggle to get her traditional Chinese parents to accept her Kiwi…
- Nothing Trivial (TV Series) (2011)
- Feat. Shane Cortese, Tandi Wright, Blair Strang…
- An agreeable and endearingly performed 'singles' comedy by way of modern day Auckland, centred on the romantic hang ups of five friends who compete…
- Orator, The (O le tulafale) (2011)
- Dir. Tusi Tamasese
Feat. Fiaula Sanote, Tausili Pushparaj
- In this superlative Polynesian drama – the first Samoan language feature film – tradition and modernity collide on the island of Upolu, where a…
- Personal War, A (The Kiwi Who Saved Britain) (2011)
- Three short dramatic accounts of war stories as a memorial to all those who have fought and lost their lives for New Zealand as soldiers.
THE KIWI…
- Rage (Rage1981) (2011)
- Dir. Danny Mulheron
Feat. Maria Walker, Ryan O’Kane, Paul Harrop…
- Vividly–realised telemovie depicting a star–crossed romance against the turbulent and controversial 1981 Springbok Rugby Tour of New…
- Tangiwai: A Love Story (2011)
- Dir. Charlie Haskell
Feat. Ryan O' Kane, Rose McIver, Miranda Harcourt…
- Stirring chronicle of our worst rail disaster in which 151 lives were lost, and the extraordinary events that played out during New Zealand's cricket…
- Underbelly - Season 4 (TV Mini-series) (Land of the Long Green Cloud) (2011)
- Feat. Daniel Musgrove, Damien Avery, Grae Burton…
- World famous in New Zealand, drug trafficker Marty Johnstone – aka, Mr. Asia – steals the Underbelly spotlight in this locally made…