director: | Mike Jonathon |
screenplay: | Tere Harrison |
cinematography: | Matt Meikle |
music: | Rio Hemopo, Dave Whitehead |
cast: | Orewa Wilson Lawrence, Lucy Cook, Marama Emery, |
producer: | Libby Hakaraia |
production: | Chain Of Title Films Limited |
source of print: | New Zealand Film Commission |
language: | English |
A story of a young girl's attempt to find her identity in a new world and her father's efforts to support her.
director: | Christine Parker |
screenplay: | Christine Parker |
cinematography: | Simon Raby |
music: | Peter Scholes |
cast: | Rima Te Wiata, Rena Owen, Minette Meder |
producer: | Caterina De Nave |
production: | Oceania Parker Films |
source of print: | New Zealand Film Commission |
language: | English, Maori |
A young woman known as The Apprentice discovers her own power once she contacts her spirit guide. Based on a short story by Booker prize-winning author Keri Hulme.
director: | Poata Eurera |
screenplay: | Poata Eruera |
cinematography: | Rewa Harre |
music: | John Diamond |
cast: | Cliff Curtis, George Henare, Lawrence Wharerau, Colin Welsh, Martyn Sanderson |
producer: | James Wallace |
production: | James Wallace Productions |
source of print: | New Zealand Film Commission |
language: | Marathi |
On returning to his Marae, Mana finds conflict between traditional values and contemporary reality. He argues that more attention is being paid to honouring and burying the dead rather than caring for the living. A suicide brings matters to a head.
director: | Taika Waititi |
screenplay: | Taika Waititi |
cinematography: | Adam Clark |
cast: | Tammy Davis, Taungaroa Emile, Rob Mokaraka, Jarod Rawiri |
producer: | Cliff Curtis, Ainsley Gardiner |
production: | AIO Productions |
source of print: | awards: Berlin IFF 2005 - Panorama Special Jury Short Film Award, Sundance FF 2005 - Filmmaking Award - wyróżnienie honorowe / Honorable Mention |
language: | Maori |
Young Maori Battalion soldiers wait for night to fall in the ruins of a war-torn Italian home. Forced into silence, they keep themselves amused as any boys would, with jokes and laughter. As they try and ignore the reminders of war around them, a sign brings them back to the world of the dying.
director: | Tama Poata |
screenplay: | Tama Poata |
cinematography: | Fred Renata |
cast: | Stephanie Grace, Lawrence Wharerau, Ace Renata Welsh, Tama Kirikiri, Tony Arahangi |
producer: | Robin Murphy |
production: | Te Hokioi Film Company |
source of print: | New Zealand Film Commission |
language: | Maori |
Te Ao Kapurangi. Warrior Woman is a period film depicting an episode of the 'musket wars' between indigenous Maori tribes who take advantage of new warfare technology supplied by British colonialists. Upon her father's death, Te Ao takes on the responsibility of saving her tribe from the invading Nga Puhi. Although the battle seems weighted in their favour, Te Ao proves that firearms are no match for her intelligence and courage.
director: | Toby Mills |
screenplay: | Toby Mills |
cinematography: | Waka Attewell |
music: | Moana Maniapoto, Hirini Melbourne |
cast: | Wetini Mitai, Wairemana Campbell, Wi Kuki Kaa, Mina Mitaingatai, Ngatai Rangihou |
producer: | Norman Elder, Toby Mills |
production: | Independent, General Productions |
source of print: | New Zealand Film Commission |
language: | Maori |
A young warrior becomes dangerously obsessed when his lover, a high-born Chief's daughter, marries her arranged husband
director: | Christopher Clark |
screenplay: | Christopher Clark |
cast: | Rangi Ngamoki |
producer: | Fraser Clark |
production: | Chameleon Films |
source of print: | New Zealand Film Commission |
language: | Maori |
A boy wrestles to resurrect his family's buried dream. Clinging to the memory of his father who never returned from the war, a boy suffers the moods of his shell shocked uncle. But when he uncovers a buried family legacy, the boy takes over his father's mantel in an effort to make his family happy once more.
director: | Taika Waititi |
screenplay: | Taika Waititi |
cinematography: | Adam Clark |
music: | Craig Sengelow |
cast: | Rangi Ngamoki, Hutini Waikato, Te Ahiwaru Ngamoki-Richards, Waka Riwai, Dion Waikato |
producer: | Ainsley Gardiner, Catherine Fitzgerald |
production: | Defender Films |
source of print: | New Zealand Film Commission |
awards: | nominacja do Oscara 2005 dla najlepszego filmu krótkometrażowego / Oscar Nomination 2005 - Best Short Film, Berlin IFF 2004 - Panorama Short Film Award, Seattle IFF 2004 - najlepszy film krótkometrażowy / Best Short Film |
language: | Maori |
Two Cars, One Night is a tale of first love. Romeo and his brother Ed, sit in the car waiting for their parents to come out of the pub. This is their world, a place inhabited by adults and alcohol. It is in this environment that we also meet Polly, an eleven-year-old girl who arrives with her parents. She too is made to wait in the car while they go into the pub, maybe even to drink with Romeo and Ed's mum and dad.
director: | Lisa Reihana |
screenplay: | Lisa Reihana |
cinematography: | George Reihana, Lisa Reihana, Ashely Turner |
music: | George Hubbard |
cast: | Sian Bourhill, Jude Folkard, Selina Forsythe, Janina Gray, Keng Lim, George Reiahna, Lisa Reihana |
producer: | Lisa Reihana |
production: | Lisa Reihana |
source of print: | New Zealand Film Commission |
language: | English |
An eight minute film which reprimands the view that all dark skinned people look and think the same way... Wog Features uses graphics, pop culture, iconography and stereotyopical images such as golliwogs to attack racism, sexism and the excesses of capitalism.