Subgenre Sampler
Rental > New Zealand: 789 Films to Rent
Lost Children, The (TV Series) (2006)
- Feat. Hudson Mills, Beatrice Joblin, Rhys Castle-Hughes…
- Well–crafted adventure series follows three children washed ashore from a shipwreck as they search for their parents..
Maddigan's Quest (TV Series) (2006)
- Feat. Michael Hurst, Timothy Balme, Danielle Cormack
- Nicely–produced local series for children – adapted from Margaret Mahy's bestseller – set in a post–technological future…
Magical World of Misery, The (2006)
- A short documentary on the creations and career of New Zealander Tanya Thompson (a.k.a. 'Misery'), who began as a hip graffiti artist and has gone to…
Maori Queen, The: 1931-2006 (Te Arikinui Dame Te Atairangikaahu) (2006)
- Televised tribute to the 'Maori Queen', Te Arikinui Dame Te Atairangikaahu, on the occasion of her funeral in August 2006, edited down from…
New Oceania, The (2006)
- Dir. Shirley Horrocks
- Dir. Shirley Horrocks continues her excellent series on local artists and literary figures with an enthralling study of 'South Pacific' writer Albert…
No. 2 (Number 2) (2006)
- Dir. Toa Fraser
Feat. Ruby Dee, Mia Blake, Emile Taungaroa…
- Playwright Toa Fraser adapts his acclaimed stageplay about a hard–bitten matriarch determined to bring her grandchildren together for a…
Out of the Blue (Aramoana) (2006)
- Dir. Robert Sarkies
Feat. Karl Urban, Matthew Sunderland, Simon Ferry…
- A moving, uncomfortably harrowing account of New Zealand’s worst mass murder, bringing the trauma of 1990’s Aramoana massacre to the screen with…
Outrageous Fortune (TV Series) - Series 2 (2006)
- Feat. Robyn Malcolm, Grant Bowler, Frank Whitten…
- Further outrageous episodes in the popular NZ series, set around a family of 'Westie' (West Auckland) criminals trying to go straight.
Series Two:…
Perfect Creature (2006)
- Dir. Glenn Standring
Feat. Saffron Burrows, Dougray Scott, Leo Gregory…
- Ambitious, well–appointed Gothica set in a retro–alternate Aotearoa, where humans and their highly–evolved vampire colleagues…
Show Me Shorts (2006-2009)
- Dir. Grant Lahood, Paolo Rotondo, Sima Urale
- A round up of the top entries from the annual Trans–Tasman short film festival.
Volume 1, 2006:
– Bad Dates (Grant Lahood,…