director: | Charlie De Salis |
screenplay: | Charlie De Salis |
cinematography: | Simon Raby |
cast: | Michael Hurst, Michael Dwyer |
producer: | Steve Sachs |
production: | Top Story Productions, Rocket Pictures Ltd., New Zealand Film Commission Short Film Fund |
source of print: | New Zealand Film Commission |
awards: | FF Dresden 1998 - Najlepszy Film Krótkometrażowy - Wyróżnienie Specjalne / Best Short Film - Honorable Mention |
language: | English |
Joey and Will make a dawn pilgrimage to fish on the wild and brooding coast. Swept into the sea by a sudden wave, Joey desperately fights for his life - a struggle with a savagely unexpected outcome.
director: | Alison MacLean |
screenplay: | Alison MacLean |
cinematography: | Stuart Dryburgh |
music: | The Headless Chickens |
cast: | Theresa Healey, Peter Tait, Annagretta Christian |
producer: | Bridget Ikin |
production: | The Hibiscus Films, New Zealand Film Commission's Short Film Fund |
source of print: | New Zealand Film Commission |
awards: | Fantasporto 1990 - International Fantasy Film Award, ISFF Tampere 1990 - Grand Prix |
language: | English |
It's a dark little fable about fear and desire - about a woman who refashions a monster into a man, and finds herself falling for her creation. A Pygmalion- type story, with the genders reversed.
director: | Ellory Elkayem |
screenplay: | Ellory Elkayem |
cinematography: | Chris White |
music: | Byron Smith |
cast: | Rebecca Hobbs, Jeremy Callaghan |
producer: | Jeremy Selkirk |
production: | Chopper Films |
source of print: | New Zealand Film Commission |
language: | English |
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 a professional. When the pest control man investigates, he opens a pandora's box of terror and mayhem. Jo's worst fear is now Larger Than Life. Will she survive?
director: | Jane Shearer |
screenplay: | Jane Shearer, Steve Ayson |
cast: | Katrin O'Donnell, Matthew Sunderland |
producer: | Leanne Saunders |
production: | Severe Features Limited |
source of print: | New Zealand Film Commission |
language: | English |
A young girl is murdered and left for dead deep in native forest. The murderer's first instincts tell him he'll get caught, but as time goes on he thinks he's got away with it. Unfortunately for him, first instincts are usually right.
director: | Brad McGann |
screenplay: | Brad Mcgann |
cinematography: | Leon Narbey |
music: | Tom Bailey |
cast: | Martin Taylor, Stephen Papps, Eve-Marie Brandish, Alexia Verdonkschot |
producer: | Trevor Haysom |
production: | Trevor Haysom Enterprises |
source of print: | New Zealand Film Commission |
awards: | IFF Gijón 1997 - Grand Prix Asturia, |
language: | English |
Even stray dogs remain elusive to Little Man, a nine year old boy, who seeks to understand the remote world around him. He finds refuge with Kid, his younger autistic sister who provides Little Man with a brief glimpse of another world. Set against isolated forest country, Possum is a timeless and touching fable which journeys into the nether-region of a child's imagination, a place where myth and reality become blurred.
director: | Brian Challis |
screenplay: | Brian Challis |
cinematography: | Adam Clark |
music: | Blair Fleming |
cast: | Nicky Murphy, Scott Willis |
producer: | Brian Challis, Ainsley Gardiner, Scott Wills |
production: | Apocalypse Films |
source of print: | New Zealand Film Commission |
language: | English |
When Dean and Jenny go drilling for water, they dig up more than they bargained for. The well is empty, but there is definitely something down there ...
director: | Grant Lahood |
screenplay: | Grant Lahood |
cinematography: | Mike Fuller |
music: | Michelle Scallion |
cast: | Peter Tait, Don Langridge, Finn, Oscar |
producer: | John Keir |
production: | Keir & Cox, Film Commission Short Film Fund. |
source of print: | New Zealand Film Commission |
awards: | IFF Cannes 1993 - Wielka Nagroda Techniczna - Specjalne Wyróżnienie / Technical Grand Prize - Special Mention |
language: | English |
In an old house deep in the New Zealand bush, an obsessed hunter has created a garish display of mounted animal trophies. At night, as his wheelchair- bound father and geriatric dog sleep, the deceased animals sing to him in choir like voices, Strauss' The Blue Danube.
But within this surreal menagerie of the mind the animal world conspires to thwart his efforts and he is faced with his greatest hunting challenge yet. A mouse.