Tag Archives: NZ Cinema
Berlinale Dispatch #5: Two Kiwis in Berlin—Maori Boy Genius, Two Little Boys
Hobbits and elfin glades fade from the mind at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival.
A Magnificent Salvage: Mana Waka
At the New Zealand International Film Festival: Acknowledging Merata Mita’s contribution to the nation’s film heritage.
Vincent Ward: The Past Awaits—People, Images, Film
Vincent Ward traces his filmmaking journey.
Eccentricities of an
International Film Festival:
Snapshots from NZIFF and TIFF 2010
Even against Toronto’s embarrassment of cinematic riches, New Zealand’s own international film festival stacks up as a world-class event.
Making There Once Was An Island
At the New Zealand International Film Festival: Director Briar March and producer Lyn Collie describe the challenges behind the filming of their powerful climate change documentary.
Kathy Dudding on Asylum Pieces
At the New Zealand International Film Festival: Inflected with personal tragedies, stark voiceovers, and a gleaning, contemplative eye, Kathy Dudding’s fascinating documentary is a pointed, tragically delivered essay on mental illness.
A Portrait of the Artist as an Old Man: Michael Smither, Gordon Crook
At the New Zealand International Film Festival: An artist in residence; a life of art.
Costa Botes on Candyman
At the New Zealand International Film Festival: An unsung entrepreneur gets his due in Costa Botes’s new documentary.
Robin Greenberg on The Free China Junk
At the New Zealand International Film Festival: The personal journey of five young men in a rickety old junk is recharted in Robin Greenberg’s buoyant documentary.
Clive Neeson on Last Paradise
At the New Zealand International Film Festival: The plight of the great outdoors hangs over Clive Neeson’s adventure sports documentary.
Breaking the Waves:
There Once Was An Island
At the New Zealand International Film Festival: Climate change reaches the shoreline of south-west Pacific atoll Takuu in Briar March’s poignant eco-documentary.
East Coast Represent: Boy
Film review of Taika Waititi’s Boy.
100 Essential New Zealand Films;
100 Essential New Zealand Albums
Hamish McDouall and Nick Bollinger explore the history of film and music in two new ‘list’ books from AWA Press.
Bad Vintage: The Vintner’s Luck
Film review of Niki Caro’s The Vintner’s Luck.
New Zealand Shorts with Donogh Rees (1982-2000)
This week at the Wellington Film Society: five Kiwi short films.
On Sisters from Siberia
Stephanie Cook discusses her role in Russell Campbell’s new documentary.
Russell Campbell on Vanguard Films
Thirty years of Vanguard Films—from the politically radical (A Century of Struggle) to excursions into dramatic fiction (Taking the Waewae Express)—screen in retrospect at the Film Archive this September. Founding member Russell Campbell recalls three decades of headstrong filmmaking.
Berlinale Dispatch #6: Pietra Brettkelly and Ngaa Rauuira Pumanawawhiti on Maori Boy Genius