Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
[ Madman DVD / DVD - released 11/Oct/2018 ] What do the most ravishingly beautiful actress of the 1930s and 40s and the inventor whose concepts were the basis of cell phone and bluetooth technology have in common? They are both Hedy Lamarr! |
The Chills: The Triumph & Tragedy Of Martin Phillipps
[ Madman DVD / DVD - released 8/Aug/2019 ] Martin Phillipps came tantalizingly close to conquering the international musical world with his band The Chills, but instead fell into decades of debt and addiction in his hometown of Dunedin, New Zealand. At 54, he's been given a dire medical... |
Cliff Curtis & James Rolleston
The Dark Horse [ Sony Pictures DVD / DVD - released 10/Dec/2014 ] Genesis Potini is a wildly charismatic, bi-polar suffering former chess champion, at a crossroads in his life. Gen is released from a psych ward and given a last chance at life in society. With nowhere else to go, he moves into his... |
Goodbye Pork Pie
[ Jigsaw DVD / DVD - released 17/Nov/2010 ] Gerry is a young New Zealander whose thoughts of freedom from his small town life take a turn for the better when he steals a yellow Mini. John is a rather older New Zealander whose life is smashed when his girlfriend leaves him and moves to the... |
Whale Rider
[ South Pacific Pictures DVD / DVD - released 25/Sep/2008 ] One girl dared to confront the past, change the present, and determine the future... In a small New Zealand coastal village, Maori claim descent from Paikea, the Whale Rider. In every generation for more than 1000 years, a male heir born to the... |
Whetū Mārama: Bright Star
[ Lime Light DVD / DVD - released 17/Nov/2022 ] For Māori, the canoe underpins our culture. We once built waka/canoes from giant trees and sailed the vast Pacific by the stars. These arts were lost to us for 600 years. Then the stars re-aligned and three men from far flung islands revived our... |
The World's Fastest Indian
[ ICON DVD / DVD - released 11/Nov/2009 ] Anthony Hopkins stars as Burt Munro, a man who never let the dreams of youth fade. Set in the late 1960's, after a lifetime of perfecting his classic Indian Motorcycle, Burt sets of from the bottom of the world, Invercargill, New Zealand, to clock... |
CHEN GANG / HE ZHAN HAO
Butterfly Lovers: A Music and Dance Film Takako Nishizaki (violin) / New Zealand Symphony Orchestra / James Judd / Dou Dou / Ding Yue Hong (dancers) [ Marco Polo / DVD - released 9/Feb/2006 ] Butterfly Lovers is a music and dance film by director Marikki Hakola. A synthesis of the ever-popular Chinese violin concerto 'Butterfly Lovers' and choreography inspired by Chinese martial arts and modern dance, the film is an imaginative... |
The Laughing Samoans
The Laughing Samoans: Choka-Block [ Double E Productions / DVD - released 1/Dec/2010 ] Choka-Block features all of The Laughing Samoans popular characters - Tala & Fai, Sam & Tony, Jonathan & Bryan, Paul & Victor and more. Choka-Block includes Room Eleven Boys, Extreme Sports, Chief Concern, Doing Homework, Buying A Car, Leaver's Ball,... |
The Laughing Samoans
The Laughing Samoans: Crack Me Off [ Double Productions / DVD - released 3/Dec/2008 ] Comedy sensations, The Laughing Samoans (aka Eteuati Ete and Tofiga Fepulea'i) have come a long way since their debut gig at the Fringe Festival in Wellington in 2003. In addition to commanding such major NZ venues as The Aotea Centre and The... |