Auckland Programme New Zealand Competition and Panorama
International stories made by Kiwis and timeless home-grown stories about Kiwi identity and culture.
Displaying 1-10 of 20 films.
16mm MaxwellNew Zealand/Australia The filmmaker rediscovers her hometown, New Plymouth. She meets a man with a cinema in his house, a group of elderly filmmakers, and finds an array of archives.
An Abbreviated LifeNew Zealand An Abbreviated Life follows Sarah, who suffers from Cystic Fibrosis as she struggles to keep well and manage her life after leaving home for the first time.
Bidding for CamillaNew Zealand You can buy anything on TradeMe including DJ Camilla Martin. Stephen Grainger is her biggest fan who is determined to win the auction.
Billy’s ChristmasNew Zealand Billy’s Christmas is the intimate and personal story of an Australian farming family coming to terms with the worst drought in living memory.
Calici: A Rural ConspiracyNew Zealand In 1997 a group of farmers introduced the illegal Calici virus in NZ — the nation’s biggest ever bio-security breach. This is their account of how and why…
Darling! The Pieter-Dirk Uys StoryNew Zealand/South Africa/Australia South African political satirist Pieter-Dirk Uys opens his previously off-limits inner world to NZ writer-director Julian Shaw.
Fish & ShipsNew Zealand Fish and Ships investigates the fishing industry set in Island Bay with its rich marine history, and told from the POV of fishermen descended from the original pioneers.
The GodmachineNew Zealand/Germany An episodic documentary on the global bicycle messenger community and their dream of a future city without cars.
A Grandmother’s TribeNew Zealand A Grandmonther’s Tribe casts an unobstructed and compassionate lens onto the lives of two Kenyan grandmothers, who find themselves in the riptide of the AIDS…
HighnoteNew Zealand Conductor Karen Grylls and 46 members of the NZ Youth Choir travel through Eastern Europe and compete at the 2004 International Choral Competition in Gorizia, Italy.
