Twenty years have passed since Billy T James died at the age of 42, and he still manages to make us laugh. Tonight on TV ONE, the story of New Zealand’s best loved entertainer is being told in the Sunday Theatre – the Audi New Zealand Season drama, Billy. Based […]
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‘Risk. Risk anything. Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.’ – Katherine Mansfield The true story of nineteen year old Katherine Mansfield’s escape from New Zealand, and the fast and furious beginning […]
It’s fifty years since Shelly Gentry disappeared and 50’s one of those numbers that seem to mean something. People celebrate fifty. Maybe islands do too – so watch out! In pre-European New Zealand, the tiny Island of Kaitangata was the scene of awful happenings. After that, the Island seemed to […]
Meet best friends Michael, Albert, Stanley and Sefa; the ladies’ man, the good boy, the weird one and the party boy. They’re staring down the barrel of their thirtieth birthdays, but still act as if they’re sixteen; they get drunk, they chase the wrong women and they have a remarkable […]
STOLEN is an emotional thriller based on the real life 2002 kidnapping of Baby Kahu Durie. The entire nation watched the anguish and courage of the parents and the calm forensic approach of the Police as they worked together to bring Baby Kahu home. South Pacific Pictures Website
Strait-laced Museum Curator Ian Jones is about to marry his boss’s daughter, Fiona. Preparations are underway and Fiona is already drawing up seating plans. So when a repatriation claim comes into the museum for a Maori carving to be returned to a remote corner of New Zealand, Ian isn’t keen […]
Walt Disney Home Entertainment presents THE OTHER SIDE OF HEAVEN, a thrilling and epic adventure starring Anne Hathaway (THE PRINCESS DIARIES) and Christopher Gorham (TV’s FELICITY). When 19-year-old John Groberg (Gorham) is sent on a three-year mission to Tonga, he has no idea what he’s getting into. Just getting to […]
Misha (Stephen Papps), a once celebrated filmmaker who has fallen on hard times, resolves to leave his homeland in search of a film-friendly country where he can pursue his career. With wife, Nadia (Elena Stejko) in tow he sets sail from Russia in a tiny lifeboat, drifting cross the Pacific […]
A romantic comedy about Emily and James, a young couple who must overcome the expectations of Emily’s parents in order to bring happiness to themselves and those around them. Official Website
Described as a “Māori Twilight Zone“, Mataku was a series of half-hour dramatic narratives steeped in Māori experience with the “unexplained”. Two South Pacific Pictures-produced series screened on TV3; a later series screened on TV One in 2005. Each episode was introduced by Temuera Morrison Rod Serling-style. The bi-lingual series […]
After the Great Chaos in the time of the Remaking a Travelling Fantasia are set on a Quest to save their home from ruin and their future from evil. They are joined in their quest by two boys from the future […]
Jubilee is a funny, warm-hearted comedy set in heartland New Zealand. It is the story of Billy Williams, his family and the small town of Waimatua – the sweet potato capital of the world. Our hero Billy Williams may be hopeless, but he’s no loser. He’s a likeable guy who’s […]
Food and love are intertwined in this tale of two mothers who must find the courage to confront the secrets and misunderstandings of the past, in order to set their sons free. Apron Strings is a parallel story of two families and two cultures set in suburban Otahuhu in South […]
starring Jay Ryan, Matt Whelan, Bronwyn Turei, Anna Hutchison, Alix Bushnell, Esther Stevens. Amy, Britta and Cody are 25 and have been friends forever but their lives aren’t going as they thought they would. They plan to be married (Cody), famous (Britta) and rich (Amy) within a year. Go Girls […]
Four ordinary New Zealand women, closely connected by shared history and friendship, meet regularly to drink and talk. One night, the women rail against men in general and husbands in particular. Jodie, leading the charge, goes one step further – to hell with divorce, she wishes […]
Bestselling U.S. author Emilie Richards knows that today’s women want a good dose of realism in their romance, and that a compelling contemporary love story must involve readers’ minds as well as their emotions. With her unflappable, hands-on heroines and well-researched milieu studies, Richards has struck a vein among readers […]
A drama about reconciliation. Reconciliation between the present and the past, between a mother and her child, between a husband and a wife. Flora Thornley has been in hiding for most of her life. In 1968 when she was 17, Flora had a daughter and gave her up for adoption. […]
Variously praised as a major step forward in indigenous cinema, attacked for overambition, and little screened, Te Rua marked Barry Barclay’s impassioned follow-up to Ngati. This story of stolen Māori carvings in a Berlin museum sees Barclay plunging into issues of control of indigenous culture he would return to in book Mana Tuturu. Feisty […]