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Willy Nilly Season Two

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 4:3 Duration: 7 x 22mins Year: 2002 Two middle-aged farming brothers are catapulted into the modern world when their bossy and overprotective mother dies and Joy, the lovely undertaker's assistant, comes to stay.

Willy Nilly Season Three

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 4:3 Duration: 7 x 22mins Year: 2003 Two middle-aged farming brothers are catapulted into the modern world when their bossy and overprotective mother dies and Joy, the lovely undertaker's assistant, comes to stay. Comic chaos results...

Willy Nilly

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 4:3 Duration: 7 x 22mins Year: 2001 Two middle-aged farming brothers are catapulted into the modern world when their bossy and overprotective mother dies and Joy, the lovely undertaker’s assistant, comes to stay. Comic chaos results...

Wildcat

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 4:3 Duration: 70 mins Year: 1981 Wildcat is the story of the timberworkers struggle and it's bitter aftermath told by the workers themselves - bushmen from Kaingaroa, millhands from Kawerau and Waipa, stacker drivers from Kinleith: Maori and Pakeha, novices and old-time union battlers.

Whina. Mother of the Nation

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 4:3 Duration: 50 mins Year: 1994 Rating: Exempt The autobiography of maori land activist Dame Whina Cooper filmed two years before she died.

What's Really in Our Food

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 16:9 Duration: 45 mins Year: 2007 Rating: Exempt Take a peek at the ingredient list of your favourite snack food and try to pronounce some of those multi-syllabic words.

Wellington Fringe Film Festival: Retrospective Collection

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: Misc Duration: 166 mins Year: 2007 Rating: [ M ] Celebrate the 20th and final Wellington Fringe Film Festival with this collection of 20 short films from some of NZ's most talented filmmakers.

Welcome to Paradise

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: Duration: 13 x 22mins Year: 2007 Available in New Zealand only. Welcome to Paradise is a sitcom about six 20-somethings who work at the Paradise Backpackers’ Hostel, catering to the low, low budget end of the tourist trade.

Waves

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 4:3 Duration: Year: Available Soon! THE PRICE QUOTED IS FOR PRIVATE USE ONLY. INSTITUTIONS POA The positive, intensive story in Waves provides us a clear picture of the overseas life of Chinese international students, which is lovely, colourful and special.

Water

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 4:3 Letterbox Duration: 15 mins Year: 2004 Rating: [M] NZ Short Film Collection One morning seven-year-old Mary discovers a burst pipe under the kitchen sink. Rather than dealing to the problem, the family ignore the leak, preferring to follow their banal daily lives, including their anticipation of a rugby game versus France that night. A black comedy of surreal proportions, Water is a film about procrastination, denial and global warming. How one small problem, when ignored, can lead to disastrous consequences.

War Stories Our Mothers Never Told Us

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 16:9 Duration: 90 mins Year: 1995 Rating: [G] THE PRICE QUOTED IS FOR PRIVATE USE ONLY. INSTITUTIONS POA Extraordinary true love stories set during the Second World War.

Velvet Dreams

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 4:3 Duration: 46 mins Year: 1998 Velvet Dreams is a titillating introduction to the world of velvet painting, a genre most noted for its portraits of topless ‘dusky maidens’ painted on black velvet.

Typhon's People

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 4:3 Duration: 2 x 90 mins Year: 1993 Rating: [PG] Available in New Zealand only. In the shadowy world of genetic research, some secrets can be worth more than life itself.

Turangawaewae: A Place to Stand

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 4:3 Letterbox Duration: 10 mins Year: 2003 Rating: [M] NZ Short Film Collection Tiare (a koro, or old man), a Vietnam war veteran, lives homeless, wandering the city, collecting bits and pieces in his plastic bags. His daughter brings her own daughter to visit and tries yet again to persuade him to return to their ancestral home. He does not wish to go there.

Try Revolution

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 16:9 Duration: 70 mins Year: 2006 Try Revolution tells the story of how the 1981 Springbok Tour of New Zealand impacted on South Africa.

Truant

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 4:3 Letterbox Duration: 15 mins Year: 2005 Rating: [R13] NZ Short Film Collection Most days Evan rides the bus all over town rather than face another day at school. He feels at home by himself, until one wet day he notices a slightly older, beautiful girl steal a wallet before jumping off the bus. Romy seems like the embodiment of everything he daydreams about: excitement, rebellion and sex. He is instantly fascinated and a tentative friendship emerges. Evan thinks he has found a companion that understands him, but he soon learns that he doesn’t understand Romy at all.

Titless Wonders

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 14:9 Duration: 70 mins Year: 2001 Gaylene Preston calls her new documentary 'an upfront exploration of the emotional discoveries of women with breast cancer'.

Tiger Country

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 4:3 Duration: 90 mins Year: 1998 Tiger Country is a raw realistic and darkly comic police drama set in the wild untamed suburbs of a New Zealand city.

Then & Now, a Century of New Zealand Soldiering

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 4:3 Duration: 48 mins Year: 2001 This documentary explores life in the Army over the past 100 years, with a special emphasis on overseas action we have been involved in, starting with the Boer War.

The World - Population 1300

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 4:3 Duration: 50 mins Year: 1982 Rating: Exempt This documentary records the Centenary of Martinborough – now world famous for its fine wines, but then a sleepy town on the road to nowhere – the first vines were just being planted.

The Time of Our Lives

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 16:9 Duration: 45 mins Year: 2007 On the road to the NZ Memorial in London with 32 war veterans and Dave Dobbyn.

The Third Richard

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 16:9 Duration: 81 mins Year: 2008 Rating: Exempt The story of a composer. Banned by the Nazis, ignored in New Zealand, his music never heard... until now.

The Sunshine Man

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 4:3 letterbox Duration: 6 mins Year: 2006 The Sunshine Man... if only we could see what he sees!

The Shirt

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 4:3 letterbox Duration: 87 mins Year: 2000 Chiefly the creation of Wellingtonian writer/producer Ross Bevan, this hits hard as a raw study of three career-junkies ‘led’ by a hypnotically nasty Brian Sargent.

The Semisis

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 4:3 Duration: 4 x 23 mins Year: 1996/7 Available in New Zealand only. 1996 saw the production of another Skitz spin-off called The Semisis, featuring the popular dysfunctional Samoan family from Skitz Milburn Place.

The Promise

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 16:9 Duration: 70 mins Year: 2005 Rating: M In the middle of a long night, Lesley Martin took her dying mother in her arms, pulled a pillow across her face and hugged her tightly until she stopped breathing.

The New Right is Wrong

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

A Trilogy of Films by Alister Barry Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 4:3 Duration: 107/105/105 mins Year: 1996/2002/2006 Someone Else's Country In a Land of Plenty A Civilised Society

The Monster's Christmas

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 4:3 Duration: 60 mins Year: 1981 Rating: [G] The story traces the quest of a young girl as she helps the monsters gain back their voices, which have been stolen by a wicked witch. Deliberately written & planned as a location film, it incorporates many of New Zealand’s beautiful scenic spots.

The Magical World of Misery

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 4:3 Duration: 35 mins Year: 2006 The Magical Misery Tour is a 35 minute documentary on Auckland artist Tanya Thompson (aka Misery).

The Living Room - Series 3

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 4:3 letterbox Duration: 10 x 24 mins Year: 2006 Rating: [R16] The award winning TV series showcasing Aotearoa's creative culture.

The Little Things

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 4:3 Letterbox Duration: 12 mins Year: 2004 Rating: [PG] NZ Short Film Collection When George Apirana arrives home to her state house apartment block on her fourteenth birthday looking forward to having a dinner date with her mother, she ends up getting rejected in favour of her mother’s new male companion. Unwittingly thrown into the night with no money and no particular place to be, George’s “life sucks so get used to it” philosophy is cracked by a six year old’s unexpected gesture of generosity and kindness.

The Last Western Heretic

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 16:9 Duration: 71 mins Year: 2007 Rating: Exempt The last western heretic is a timely and enthralling insight into the ideas and philosophies of the New Zealander described by the BBC as “the last living heretic”.

The Last Resort

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 4:3 letterboxed Duration: 92 mins Year: 2006/7 Rating: Exempt From the closure of a 60 year-old campground and subsequent beachfront occupation by tangata whenua at Opoutama, Mahia...

The Intruder

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 4:3 Duration: 16 mins Year: 1999 Rating: When the habit of loving becomes all habit and no love, it is time for the intruder to enter their midst.

The Hothouse

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 16:9 Duration: 7 x 44 mins Year: 2007 Available in New Zealand only. The Hothouse follows the complicated lives of a group of 20-somethings who share a run down, but very cool, inner-city flat.

The Hatred Campaign

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 4:3 Duration: 36 mins Year: 1985 Rating: Exempt On March 27 1984, a bomb exploded in Wellington Trades Hall. Caretaker, Ernie Abbott, was killed instantly. This DVD is a memorial to Ernie Abbott.

The Green Guerillas

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 4:3 Duration: 30 mins Year: 1995 The struggle of the indigenous people of the Philippines, together with the nationally-organised revolutionary movement, to save the last remaining rain forests.

The Bug House

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 4:3 Duration: 60 mins Year: 2001 Blowflies that bomb your barbecue, cockroaches in your pantry, lice in your hair, mites in your eyelashes, borer in your furniture, beetles in your carpet and fleas...

The Betrayal

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 4:3 Duration: 75 mins Year: 1995 Aucklander Ron Jeffery’s wartime adventures as a courier, spy, and even executioner have all the hallmarks of a fantastic spy thriller - but the extraordinary thing is, it’s all true.

The 1981 Springbok Tour

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 4:3 Duration: 50 mins Year: 1991 Made in 1991 when Nelson Mandela was still in prison, this documentary interviews all the main participants in the 1981 Tour ten years on from the civil disruption which marked the 1981 Springbok Tour of New Zealand.

Te Whiringa Taura o Whanganui

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 16:9 Duration: 52 mins Year: 2007 Rating: Exempt Sacha Utupoto Keating of Ngati Ruaka explores the beautiful Whanganui River which has been fought over for centuries. The conflict continues into the 21st Century.

Te Pito o te Henua

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 4:3 Duration: 30 mins Year: 1993 The story of Easter Island, Te Pito o te Henua or Rapanui, is a powerful parable of our time.

Tank Busters

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 4:3 Duration: 31 mins Year: 1969 THE PRICE QUOTED IS FOR PRIVATE USE ONLY. INSTITUTIONS POA Cast in the local pub, amongst a group of friends, "Tank Busters" became a first in several respects.

Tales of Mystery and Imagination

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 4:3 Duration: 75 mins Year: 2009 Rating: Exempt Geoff Murphy’s genre-busting new film. Tales of Mystery and Imagination is a film-and-music interpretation of the gothic poetry and short stories of Edgar Allan Poe. New Zealand’s most successful film director, Geoff Murphy, has teamed up with talented saxophonist and composer Lucien Johnson to turn a unique musical suite into an accessible documentary/music film. During the film the musicians talk about Poe, music, life and death.

Take 3

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 4:3 Letterbox Duration: 12 mins Year: 2008 Rating: [M] NZ Short Film Collection The audition room is a minefield for three Asian actresses who are expected to be Asian in ways they’re not completely comfortable with. When the humiliations mount, they transcend their professional rivalry in one gleeful act of solidarity, empowering themselves with the very stereotypes that they’ve been subjected to.

Struggle No More

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 16:9 Duration: 85 mins Year: 2006 Rating: [ M ] THE PRICE QUOTED IS FOR PRIVATE USE ONLY. INSTITUTIONS POA When blues loving teenager Bill Lake moved from Australia to New Zealand in 1968 to escape the Vietnam War draft, he took with him a box full of priceless old blues records and a harmonica.

Someone Elses Country

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 4:3 Duration: 107 mins Year: 1996 Rating: Exempt During the early 1980's, a group of rightwing economists quietly came to dominate policy development in the New Zealand Treasury.

Snail's Pace

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 4:3 Letterbox Duration: 4 mins Year: 1989 Rating: G NZ Short Film Collection A common garden snail sets off on an epic adventure to claim a faraway lettuce. Many difficulties await him but nothing will stand in the way of his lunch….

Sit Dancing International

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD & 2 x CD Aspect Ratio: 4:3 Duration: 120 mins Year: 2008 Sit Dancing is a unique dance programme specially developed for frail elderly people.

Sisters From Siberia

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 4:3 Duration: 115 mins Year: 2009 Rating: Exempt In 2006, Wellington City Councillor Stephanie Cook succeeds, after some difficulty, in adopting two sisters from a children's home in Siberia. Katya is nine and Nadya four when they arrive to start a new life in the suburb of Aro Valley.

Sheilas: 28 Years On

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 16:9 Duration: 70 mins Year: 2004 Rating: [PG] Following a 7-Up formula, this documentary is a history of second wave feminism in New Zealand, based around a number of women who appeared in the 1976 documentary Women at the radical height of the women's movement.

Shaky Beginnings. The Shaping of New Zealand

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 4:3 Duration: 60 mins Year: 2007 Rating: Exempt How was New Zealand formed? Where did the mountains and the plains come from?

Seven Periods with Mr. Gormsby

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 16:9 Letterbox Duration: 7 x 22mins Year: 2005 Rating: [M] Seven Periods With Mr Gormsby is an unrepentant politically incorrect, roller-coaster romp about an extraordinarily eccentric secondary school teacher...

Seven Periods With Mr Gormsby - Series 2

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 16:9 Letterbox Duration: 7 x 22 mins Year: 2006 Rating: [M] The unrepentant politically incorrect Mr Gormsby is back in series two of the satirical New Zealand television series created and written by Danny Mulheron.Things have gone downhill since Gormsby was sacked and the gibbering wreck of a principal, Roger Dasent, was taken away in an ambulance. The scheming Steve from Guidance finds himself in charge of a school where gambling, pornography and drug abuse are spiralling out of control. And thatís just in the staffroom. In this second series Gormsby is reinstated to solve a car bombing, coach the first XV in their annual game against the local prison, organise a school camp and use ballroom dancing to teach the boys gallantry. With amalgamation with a posh girlsí school looming Gormsby addresses the sticky business of sex Ö

Seeing Red

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 4:3 Duration: 45 mins Year: 1995 New Zealand’s own mid-century anti-Communist witch hunt which reenacts the fate of Cecil Holmes, a filmmaker at the National Film Unit, who was fired because he was a member of the Communist Party.

Sedition: The Suppression of Dissent in World War II New Zealand

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 4:3 Duration: 140 mins Year: 2005 Rating: Exempt Available in New Zealand only. After the carnage of World War I many New Zealanders formed a movement committed to rejecting war as a means of settling international disputes.

Sand Dancer

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 4:3 Duration: 11 mins Year: 2006 Rating: Exempt You have to be quick to catch the Sand Dancer, Peter Donnelly, creating his masterpieces on the beaches of New Zealand.

Rebels in Retrospect

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 4:3 Duration: 74 mins Year: 1991 The Progressive Youth Movement (PYM) was at the vortex of political protest and youth rebellion in New Zealand during the turbulent era of the Vietnam War.

Rachel Dustbins Dog and the Law

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 4:3 Duration: 10 mins Year: 1985 This title is currently being remastered. Highly Commended - Australian Teachers of Media Awards (ATOM)

Punitive Damage

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 16:9 Duration: 80 mins Year: 1999 Rating: [M] The story of New Zealander Helen Todd’s law suit against an Indonesian general pursued after her son, Kamal, was shot dead in the Dili massacre in East Timor in 1991.

Prospects

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 4:3 Duration: 25 mins Year: 1989 This is the story of the first campaign to save the Coromandel from mining. In 1986 gold mining companies were keen to begin prospect drilling in some of the most beautiful parts of the Coromandel. Locals began organising to stop them. Eventually protesters occupied drilling sites making it impossible for the prospecting to continue despite the intervention of the police.

One Man, One Cow, One Planet

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 16:9 Duration: 56 mins Year: 2007 Rating: Exempt Our ecosystems ore overwhelmed. Humanity's increasing demands are exceeding the Earth's carrying capacity.

One Man and the Sea

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 4:3 Duration: 25 mins Year: 1984 Rating: Exempt This 1984 film shows the successful experiments by New Zealand Artist Michael Smither in rebuilding eroding beaches using driftwood.

Nothing Special

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 4:3 Letterbox Duration: 11 mins Year: 2004 Rating: [PG] NZ Short Film Collection Billy, an ordinary nine year old, becomes the reluctant subject of worship when his delusional mother decides he is the reincarnate of Jesus Christ. As soon as he is old enough, a traumatised Billy attempts to escape by moving cities and changing his name – all he wants to be is the most normal, boring, forgettable person in the whole world. But can he ever escape his most zealous devotee?

Noise Control

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 4:3 Letterbox Duration: 11 mins Year: 2008 Rating: [PG] NZ Short Film Collection When a local pre-school's pet rooster was shot by the local government animal control officer Mr Wolf, it became international news. Responding to neighbours complaints about the rooster crowing all through the night Mr Wolf shot the rooster but "unfortunately didn't kill it". It was discovered by traumatised children and later died. In this documation, everyone involved has something to say including the mayor, neighbours, the pre-school teacher, the local reporter, Mr Wolf and Joe Rooster himself.

New Zealand Living Down Under

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 16:9 Duration: 45 mins Year: 2009 Rating: Exempt This DVD is designed to help people visualise and experience what life is really like in New Zealand. It is full of interesting facts and information, making migrating or visiting New Zealand as stress free as possible.

Nearly No Christmas

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 4:3 Duration: 60 mins Year: 1982 Rating: [G] Santa’s toy-making machine breaks down, so Santa and his helpers have to do all they can to fix the problem... and fast! The outdoor scenes were shot on location in New Zealand’s mountains, famous for their scenic beauty.

My Sweet Town

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD & Audio CD Aspect Ratio: 4:3 Duration: 90 mins Year: 2008 New Zealand luthier and musician Paddy Burgin and the Wooden Box Band take you through ninety minutes of music and discussion about music and the craft of guitar making.

Michael Smither: The Next Ten Years - Episode Two

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Episode Two: Artist in Residence Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 16:9 Duration: 42 mins Year: 2010

Michael Smither: The Next Ten Years - Episode One

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Episode One: Shared Harmonics Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 16:9 Duration: 42 mins Year: 2009

Michael King - A Moment in Time

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 4:3 Duration: 40 mins Year: 2008 New Zealand writer and historian Michael King speaks candidly about his work in this interview conducted in Dunedin in 1991.

Memories Live Longer than Dreams - The Gullyites

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 4:3 Duration: 60 mins Year: 1992 A unique and heartwarming overview of New Zealand social history as the Gully-ites of Wellington's Holloway Road gather for Pop Swensson's 107th birthday.

Man in the Hat

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 16:9 Duration: 73mins Year: 2009 Rating: Exempt

Making Utu

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 4:3 Duration: 48 mins Year: 1982 This title is currently being remastered. A documentary about the making of Geoff Murphy’s feature-film UTU, looking at the issues involved in exploring New Zealand’s racial past.

Lost in Translation

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 16:9 Duration: 10 x 25mins Year: 2009 Rating: Exempt

Living a New Zealand Lifestyle Plus the bonus Travel DVD

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 16:9 Duration: 105 mins Year: 2009 Rating: Exempt This DVD has been created by migrants for migrants to assist in making the experience of moving to New Zealand better informed. This 2 disc DVD is packed with invaluable information.

Lemming Aid

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 4:3 Letterbox Duration: 12 mins Year: 1994 Rating: [PG] NZ Short Film Collection A wry comedy about human nature colliding with mother nature…..literally! A party of New Zealand animal rights activists assemble on a Norwegian clifftop to prevent the annual mass suicide of Lemmings. All is fine until their vigil is interrupted by a Norwegian woman intent on using the lemmings as the furry opponents in a crude form of blood sport. A Cannes prize-winning film.

Leaving the Exclusive Brethren

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 4:3 Duration: 44 mins Year: 2005 Leaving the Exclusive Brethren presents true stories of individuals and families who have fallen from grace and been excommunicated from the Exclusive Brethren.

Learning Fast

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 4:3 Duration: 48 mins Year: 1980 This title is currently being remastered. A documentary about the transition from school to work which follows a group of young people one year after leaving Makara College in Masterton.

Last Man Standing - Bright Williams

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: Duration: 24 mins Year: 2003 Until his death at 105 years of age, Bright Williams was New Zealand's last surviving World War One soldier.

Land of my Ancestors

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 16:9 Duration: 78 mins Year: 2008 A portrait of Maori artist Darcy Nicholas. Darcy’s story is inseparably woven with his mountain, Mount Taranaki; his family; his ancestors; his art and into the lives of other indigenous artists and friends.

Kiwi Nightmare, the Battles of Monte Cassino

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 4:3 Duration: 46 mins Year: 1995 Another 50th reunion of New Zealand soldiers with their German counterparts, this time at the meat grinder, which was Monte Cassino in Italy.

Kitchen Sink

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 4:3 Letterbox Duration: 14 mins Year: 1989 Rating: [M] NZ Short Film Collection This film is a wicked and witty shocker and teaser. With a mere 14 minutes of black and white footage, a New Zealander demonstrates how to hook and rivet an audience while simultaneously sparking off an explosive minefield of metaphors. Witness the demise of the female gothic and the birth of the feminist fantastic.

Keeping the Peace

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 4:3 Duration: 48 mins Year: 2000 This documentary takes a close look at The New Zealand Army's contribution to peacekeeping operations around the world.

In A Land of Plenty

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 4:3 Duration: 105 mins Year: 2002 From the Great Depression of the 1930s to 1984, the first objective of economic policy was full employment.

Holly's Heroes

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: Duration: 26 x 22 mins Year: 2004/5 Rating: [G] Available in New Zealand only. The story is about 14 year old Holly and celebrates the importance of friendship and the rewards that come from participation and a simple love of sports.

Hawaikii

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 4:3 Letterbox Duration: 11 mins Year: 2006 Rating: [G] NZ Short Film Collection For a young Maori girl it’s the first day at school, the first day without the security of her parents. Raised with Mäori culture as her basis she is about to enter a foreign environment with little understanding of their culture nor they of hers. For someone so young she is aware of adult things such as poverty and stress and understands the economic limitations her family lives within. However they have something far more valuable than money - a love for each other and for their culture and its stories.

Haunting of Barney Palmer

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 4:3 Duration: 60 mins Year: 1986 Available Soon! Based on book by Margaret Mahy, Leading role played by Ned Beatty.

Haunting Douglas

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 4:3 Duration: 70 mins Year: 2003 Haunting Douglas is a documentary about Douglas Wright; choreographer, dancer, artist.

Guardians of the Light

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 16:9 Duration: 45 mins Year: 2008 The days when lighthouse keepers sat up all night to keep the lights going are over – victims of automation.

Good Taste made Bad Taste

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 4:3 Duration: 26 mins Year: 1988 Rating: Exempt 'Good Taste Made Back Taste' was made to show some of the tricks of the trade used by Peter Jackson in the making of his first feature film, Bad Taste. Shot at PJ's Wellington home and on location, the film utilizes excerpts from Peter's early films, productions stills, interviews with the key cast, and excerpts from Bad Taste itself. Never broadcast by television, this documentary is the only independent film commercially available showing Jackson's work. Made by by Tony Hiles.

Getting to Our Place

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 4:3 Duration: 72 mins Year: 1999 A documentary which chronicles the history of the creation of Te Papa Tongarewa - the Museum of New Zealand.

Georgie Girl

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 4:3 Duration: 70 mins Year: 2001 Rating: [PG] Not available in North America. The life story of Georgina Beyer, born George, a Maori (indigenous) transsexual and former sex-worker, who recently was elected to the New Zealand Government by a largely white, rural electorate, making her a world first.

Flight of Fancy

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 4:3 Duration: 51 mins Year: 1987 Rating: Exempt In 1986 New Zealand Artist Michael Smither explored a childhood dream – human flight.

Fish Skin Suit

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 4:3 Duration: 44 mins Year: 2000 Rating: [PG] While playing at the beach with their grandmother two children (Heremaia and Rata) witness an Elvis impersonator (Moses Brown – The Fishman) walk out of the sea.

Exiles

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 4:3 Duration: 52 mins Year: 1992 POLISH REFUGEES IN NZ As an 8 year old, Irena was one of 1.6 million Polish citizens brutally deported to Siberia by Stalin after he and Hitler carved up Poland at the outbreak of WWII.

Elgar's Enigma

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 16:9 Duration: 52 mins Year: 2006 Rating: [PG] Available in New Zealand only. This documentary follows the theory that the English composer, Edward Elgar, was moved to write his Cello Concerto in E^m by the WW1 death of a young New Zealand soldier, the son of Elgar’s first great love, Helen Weaver.

El Alamein, Crucible of Fire

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: Duration: 46 mins Year: 1994 An Execam crew followed New Zealand veterans of this crucial World War 2 battle back to El Alamein in Egypt for the 50th anniversary of the conflict. We concentrated on five soldiers, and let them tell their stories in depth.

Edward Elgar's Cello Concerto

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 16:9 Duration: 30 mins Year: 2008 Rating: Exempt The concert of Edward Elgar’s Cello Concerto in E minor, Op.85, was originally shot for inclusion in Elgar’s Enigma.

Earthquake

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 16:9 Duration: 46 mins Year: 2006 Eyewitness accounts of New Zealand's most devastating earthquake in modern times.

Duggan - Sins of the Fathers

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 4:3 Duration: 90 mins Year: 1998 Rating: [M] Available in New Zealand only. DUGGAN - SINS OF THE FATHERS, a new, gripping detective drama, is set in New Zealand’s picturesque Marlborough Sounds.

Duggan - Shadow of a Doubt

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Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 4:3 Duration: 90 mins Year: 1999 Rating: [M] Available in New Zealand only.

Duggan - Death in Paradise

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Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 4:3 Duration: 90 mins Year: 1997 Rating: [M] Available in New Zealand only. A gripping detective drama full of twists and turns, Duggan: Death in Paradise is filmed in one of the most beautiful locations in New Zealand.

Destination New Zealand

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 16:9 Duration: 45 mins Year: 2009 Rating: Exempt

Cuckoo Land

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 4:3 Duration: 6 x 30 mins Year: 1986 Rating: [PG] A Creation by Margaret Mahy Realised by the Gibson Group

Cowboys & Communists

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 16:9 Duration: 52 & 64 mins Year: 2007 Rating: [M] The lives of a cowboy and a communist collide when Walter Potts, an artist and chef from LA opens his late night burlesque burger bar, 'White Trash Fast Food' in the bottom floor of an East Berlin apartment block where Horst Woitalla has lived since the Communist era.

Cover Story - The Telefeature

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 4:3 Duration: 90 mins Year: 1994 Available in New Zealand only. The two-hour telefeature of Cover Story introduces us to the Cover Story team.

Cover Story

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 4:3 Duration: 26 x 44 mins Year: 1995/6 Available in New Zealand only. Cover Story is a 24-part primetime drama series which centres on a team of television journalists working on a weekly current-affairs programme that screens on the privately-owned Pacific Television (PTV) channel.

Coffee and Allah

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 16:9 Duration: 14 mins Year: 2007 Rating: [G] NZ Short Film Collection Coffee & Allah is a film about Abeba Mohammed’s appetite for coffee, Islam and a good game of badminton. As a recent refugee in New Zealand with no English and a veil to cloak her difference, she has little chance of connecting with others around her. Until one day when a spontaneous game of badminton leads Abeba to accept a gift of friendship. Festivals: 2007 Venice, Valladolid, San Francisco 2008 Cork, Prague Language: English/Oromo (with English subtitles)

Clean Linen

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 16:9 Duration: 14.5 mins Year: 2007 Rating: [M] NZ Film Commission Short Film Collection 9 yr old Raj will never forget the summer of ’82. Days are spent doing household chores with his sister Renu, and secretly watching their Dad’s adult videos. When caught by their mother, Raj blurts out the truth about the video tapes without thinking of the consequences. Clean Linen is Raj’s story about the pain of growing up, and realising that some family secrets won’t come out in the wash.

Clare

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 4:3 Duration: 92 mins Year: 2001 Directed by Yvonne McKay and written and produced by Dave Gibson, Clare is a 92-minute telefeature that tells the true story of a woman who took on the New Zealand medical establishment.

Chop Off

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 4:3 Letterbox Duration: 5 mins 10 sec Year: 2006 Rating: [G] NZ Short Film Collection A Veteran of the mainstay A&P Show sport woodchopping comes up against two cocky young Axemen and has to draw on all his skill and know-how to try and win. An epic battle between young and old that combines well choreographed and photographed movement with an exciting narrative. All topped off by a big ending...

Children of the Sun

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 4:3 Duration: 55 mins Year: 1968 Children of the Sun will stir the happiest memories in any surfers life ...never to be forgotten fun filled days. Filmed around the virgin coastline of New Zealand and the classic points of Northern Queensland Australia, this film is an amazing chronicle of a time now looked on as the golden years of surfing ...the styles and beach scenes ..the cars, people and fashions ...surfing during the mid to late 60's ...the New Era!

Boy

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Aspect Ratio: 4:3 Letterbox Duration: 15 mins Year: 2004 Rating: [R16] NZ Short Film Collection The strangely told, silent story of a young male prostitute in a small New Zealand town who discovers the truth behind a fatal hit and run accident. As news of the death spreads through the district, the family of the responsible driver realizes that the boy must be kept quiet. Using gossip and brutality they set out to frighten him into submission. The pressure becomes increasingly aggressive and through it the boy, from his strange world of broken, angel-like dolls, develops the courage, to expose the truth.

Black-Hearted Barney Blackfoot

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 4:3 Duration: 12 mins Year: 1979 Lucy & Billy try and tame their mean stepfather. Designed in soft sculpture and filmed in live action with numerous effects and unusual sounds, this fantasy film is particularly suitable for 4-10 year olds.

Being Billy Apple

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 16:9 Duration: 70 mins Year: 2008 Billy Apple the man, the artist, the brand. Since the 1960s this iconic individual has been turning the art world on its head.

Backroom Troubles

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 4:3 Duration: 50 mins Year: 1998 Rating: [PG] A history of illegal abortion in New Zealand.

Aotearoa - Earth and Sky

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 16:9 Duration: 31 mins Year: 2008 Rating: Exempt Every culture has its traditions about how the world was created. Maori have many of them - giants digging out lakes, water creatures rising up to form hills, and mountains engaging in a battle for the affections of a beautiful maiden.

Antonello & the Architect

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD x 2 Aspect Ratio: 4:3 Duration: 77 mins Year: 2007 A few years ago at a Dream House Exhibition at the City Gallery, Harvard-educated Wellington Architect Bill Toomath proposed the idea of constructing a ‘design den’ underneath his house. He later revised the plan and eventually built the den in a new structure designed as a contemporary reflection of what is held inside.

Ans Westra: Private Journeys/Public Signposts

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 16:9 Duration: 72 mins Year: 2006 Rating: Exempt Ans Westra, whose photographs of New Zealanders constitute a uniquely expressive record of who we are and have been, now sits for the camera herself.

An Island Calling

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 16:9 Duration: 75 mins Year: 2008 Rating: [M] Not available in North America. On July 1, 2001, John Scott and his partner Greg Scrivener were killed in their home in Suva Fiji...

A Very Nice Honeymoon

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 4:3 Letterbox Duration: 10 mins Year: 2006 Rating: [G] NZ Short Film Collection A beautifully crafted 2D and 3D animated film where five generations tell the story of Mariano and Elizabeth Vella, who were on the steamer SS Wairarapa when it was wrecked on the coast of Great Barrier Island, New Zealand, in 1893.

A Tough Act

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: Duration: 10 x 22 mins Year: 2005 Rating: Exempt TOUGH ACT is the first series to see inside Toi Whakaari, New Zealand’s top drama school. It follows the 2005 intake of students as they embark on their first year of a three-year acting course.

A Tale of Three Chimps

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: Duration: 50 mins Year: 2001 Rating: Exempt Available in New Zealand only. A Tale of Three Chimps is a moving, poignant and dramatic story that documents the fate of three chimp brothers as their circus world disintegrates around them.

A Job With the Circus: Nigel Gavin in Concert

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 16:9 Duration: 90 mins Year: 2008 Nigel Gavin ran away with a circus when he was fifteen. Many years later, he is still performing incredible feats.

A Civilised Society

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 4:3 Duration: 105 mins Year: 2006 This is the untold story of the epic struggle between teachers and the radical right during the 1980s and 1990s.

1nite

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 16:9 Duration: 82 mins Year: 2004 Rating: [M] Set in and around Auckland’s Karangahape Road, the storyline revolves around four separate journeys taking place over one night.

16 Sleepless Nights

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:14:14 +1200

Format: DVD Aspect Ratio: 4:3 letterbox Duration: 28 mins Year: 2007 16 Sleepless Nights explores the relationship between mental illness and creativity by spending time with two successful New Zealand artists who have been affected by various aspects of the disease.