Nga Kaitiaki o Nga Taonga Whitiahua, the New Zealand Film Archive.

Chuck Eggen's   New Zealand Films on tape and DVD.

New Zealand Short Films Watch Movies Online.

New Zealand Cinema links.

New Zealand film and New Zealand film directors links on Zeroland.

There are 918 New Zealand Movies/TV-series listed in the Internet Movie Database.
You can use the Movie Reviews Query engine to get more information on any particular film.

A Film Index compiled by David Foreman at the University of Waikato Library of film reviews published in journals held by the Library.

Filmnet   website and a free daily text email newsletter covering all aspects of the Australian and NZ film industry.

The Pacific Film Archive at the the Berkeley Art Museum.

Peter Jackson films on US TV this month.
Peter Jackson Online.
Braindead   the Movie,   Picture Gallery   Sound Gallery.

Your Mother Ate My Dog
The Bastards Have Landed

Films produced by WingNut films include

• Bad Taste (1987)
• Braindead (1992) ...aka Dead Alive (1992)
• Forgotten Silver (1996)
• Frighteners, The (1996)
• Heavenly Creatures (1994)
• Meet the Feebles (1989)

Middle Earth Comes To New Zealand
Jackson secured financing with the US film company Newline Cinema to make J.R.R. Tolkien's classic trilogy Lord Of The Rings with the first film, The Fellowship Of The Ring, released in December 2001. The next two films of the trilogy followed at roughly one year intervals.
Press Archives for LOTR.
Lord of the Rings Movie News
The One Ring Net.
The LOTR Movie Site.
Lord of the Rings Images.

Peter Jackson's 2005 remake of King Kong.

Magnus Hjelstuen's Piano pages with info on director Jane Campion, actors Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Sam Neill and Anna Paquin.

Jane Campion films on US TV this month.

Reviews of New Zealand Films by McAlister and Fuchs for Public Radio.

• Angel at my Table (review by McAlister)
• Once were Warriors (review by Fuchs)
• Once were Warriors (review by McAlister)
• Once were Warriors (review by Star)
• The Piano (review by McAlister)

What Becomes of the Broken Hearted? a sequel to Once were Warriors.

Gregor Nicholas' film Broken English from Sony pictures. Interview with Writer/Director Gregor Nicholas.   NC-17 Controversy.

Reviews:

• Roger Ebert
• Berardinelli

The Price of Milk, the second feature from director Harry Sinclair and producer Fiona Copland.
A man, a woman, and a hundred and seventeen cows...
A fairy tale love story, full of magic and humor, set on a New Zealand dairy farm.

The Ugly   New Zealand's first serial killer film by Scott Reynolds.   "A remarkably ambitious and fiercely individual film that succeeds on almost every level".

Scarfies   A comic thriller about a group of students who discover that crime should be left to criminals, the film was set and shot in Dunedin with a Dunedin music soundtrack.

The Lunatics Ball

Channelling Baby   In 1971 New Zealand soldiers were heading off to Vietnam. Geoff catches sight of Bunnie whose smile is the lasting vision he takes with him to war. When Geoff returns from Vietnam, they start a life together and Bunnie gives birth to a baby girl. One day, Geoff and the baby disappear, leaving Bunnie devastated. Years later in the 1990's, Bunnie accepts help from a young woman who claims to be a clairvoyant to find out what has become of her child. She brings the couple back together again to solve the mystery of what really happened.

The Irrefutable Truth About Demons   Harry Ballard thought he knew it all. But then he finds his girlfriend brutally murdered, and he is pitched head-long into a world that exists just below the surface of everyday reality.

Savage Honeymoon a broad comedy in cheerful bad taste.

Keiji, a newly married Japanese tourist, drowns mysteriously on a New Zealand beach. His distraught widow, Sayo, tells their story in Memory & Desire, a film by Niki Caro.

Stickmen   a comedy staring Robbie Magasiva, Paolo Rotondo, Scott Wills and Simone Kessell,   follows the lives of three pool-playing Kiwi blokes amongst the underbelly of the Wellington pub scene.

Magik and Rose   Love Hokitika and 80 million sperm .. A film by Vanessa Alexander.

Hopeless an unromantic comedy about Ben and his friends - falling in love and failing to cope with it.

Kombi Nation   the trip of a lifetime.     What could possibly go wrong.

Rain - directed by Christine Jeffs.
A 13-year-old girl decides to grow up too quickly, without realizing the consequences.

Perfect Strangers by Gaylene Preston.

Whale Rider by writer/director Niki Caro.
A contemporary story of love and rejection as a young girl fights to fulfil her destiny.

Loops & Samples   a documentary on the history of dance music in New Zealand.

Director Alison Maclean, born in Ottawa, Canada moved to New Zealand in 1972. She received a BFA at Auckland University, majoring in sculpture. Since 1992 she has been a resident of New York City.
Her first feature, Crush competed at Cannes and was shown at the Toronto and Sundance film festivals.
Her second feature. Jesus' Son   based on a book of short stories by Denis Johnson, premiered recently at the Telluride, Colorado, and Toronto film festivals.
Alison Maclean's Acclaimed Second Coming with Jesus' Son,   an ND/NF interview by Anthony Kaufman.

Sam Neill , Actor.   Films on US TV this month.
Kerry Fox   Janet Frame in the Jane Campion film "Angel at My Table". Movie Notes Shallow Grave.
Anna Paquin of The Piano and Jane Eyre.   Anna Paquin Classics.
Melanie Lynskey ( Pauline in Heavenly Creatures ) by Thai Phong Vo.   MelanieLynskey.net
Russell Crowe   the Crowes Perch,   the Films on US TV this month
Timothy Balme star of Braindead.
Danielle Cormack   Karl Urban.
Tim Bevan, producer, Working Title films. Fargo, Elizabeth, Notting Hill, Bean.
Costa Botes   Director and Scriptwriter,
George Port   Digital Effects.
Gavin Scott Screenwriter   The Mists of Avalon.
Lee Tamahori, Director, Once were Warriors,   The Edge,   Die Another Day 20th Bond film.
Len Lye - film maker - kinetic artist - painter - writer.
Ted Coubray - Cinema Pioneer Growing Up With The "Flicks"
Vincent Ward, Director,   What Dreams May Come,   Map of the Human Heart,   The Navigator,   Vigil   River Queen.
Andrew Adamson, New Zealand-born, co-directed Shrek, Shrek2, director of The Chronicles of Narnia.

The Actors Downunder.
Gummidge's Aussie & Kiwi Young Actors
The New Zealand Film and Video Technicians' Guild represents and campaigns for professional film and video technicians.

Film New Zealand will help you go on location.
Examples of Atmospheric, Coastal, Historic, Mountainous, Rural and Urban sites.
Film Wellington.
Films made in New Zealand with identified locations.
Specific locations in New Zealand that have been used in films listed in the Internet Movie Database.
Vertical Limit released December 2000, is an action movie shot on the South Island's 3,753-metre high Mount Cook and around nearby Queenstown.
Incorporating both Weta Digital and the Weta Workshop, Weta Ltd has helped produce the highest quality visual effects for motion pictures and television productions.
Unreal   Documentary Television for Corporate & Broadcast.

New Zealand Film Festivals.
Beck's Incredible Film Fest.
MIC Short Film Programmes - Homegrown.

2001: A New Zealand Film Odyssey   at The Clearview 62nd and Broadway Cinema, New York.
Utu,   The Price Of Milk,   War Stories,   Braindead,   Scarfies,   Topless Women Talk About Their Lives,   The Shorts Program,   What Becomes Of The Broken Hearted?,   February 7-13.   New York Times article.

Guide to the New Zealand Cinema scene.

Wellington Film Guide.

Rialto Cinemas Auckland, Hamilton, Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin.

Film in Aotearoa New Zealand Jonathan Dennis and Jan Bieringa, eds. Wellington, NZ: Victoria University of Wellington Press. 2nd edition 1996 ISBN 0 86473 309 7. 244 pp. Pbk NZ$49.95.
New Zealand Films 1912-1996. Helen Martin and Sam Edwards. Auckland, NZ Oxford University Press. 1997 ISBN 00-19-558336-1 215 pp $NZ49.95.

The Office of Film and Literature Classification the censorship system.

Aro Street Video   online shop.

DVD's Region 4 vs Region 1
The DVD NUT explains the facts about DVD.

Planet 3000   Multistandard Televisions and VCRs, PAL and NTSC Camcorders, 220 volt Audio Equipment, Codeless DVD Players, and Multisystem Video Converters.

What is PAL - NTSC ? Will it play on my television ?

New Zealand writers Stephen Sinclair and Anthony McCarten filed an action in the Federal District Court in Los Angeles alleging that the film "The Full Monty" infringed the copyright in their stage play "Ladies Night".

Krishnan's Dairy.

A Mid Summer Night's Dream in Hamilton 25 July 2000 - 30 July 2000.
The first stop for the inaugural tour of The New Zealand Actors Company, directed by Simon Bennett, with Tim Balme, Robyn Malcolm and Katie Wolfe.

OnStage New Zealand the source for live performance, the place to come to find out what's happening in Theatre, Musicals, Opera, Dance, and Comedy.
Playmarket Online   information about theatre and play writing in New Zealand.
Venue Web   DXF Files of Theatrical and Performance Venues.   Aims to include free, accurate CAD plans, and technical specs of every venue in New Zealand capable of hosting a live performance.

Puppetry Info New Zealand - a communication and support network for New Zealand puppeteers and related artists.