John Laing

John Laing

Nacimiento : , New Zealand

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John Laing is a director, producer, editor and writer from New Zealand. He directed his first feature film Beyond Reasonable Doubt in 1980. He has worked in both television and movies in New Zealand as well as in the United Kingdom and Canada.

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John Laing

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My Animal
Executive Producer
Heather, an outcast teenage goalie in a small northern town, falls for newcomer Jonny, an alluring but tormented figure skater. As their relationship deepens, Heather’s growing desires clash with her darkest secret, forcing her to control the animal within.
The Retreat
Executive Producer
Renee y Valerie, una pareja en una encrucijada en su relación, dejan la ciudad para pasar la semana en una cabaña remota con amigos. Pero cuando llegan, sus amigos no aparecen por ningún lado. Mientras tropiezan con sus problemas de pareja, descubren que son perseguidos por un grupo de militantes extremistas que están decididos a exterminarlos.
Castle in the Ground
Executive Producer
Después de la prematura muerte de su madre, un adolescente afligido se hace amigo de su carismático pero problemático vecino, solo para quedar atrapado en un mundo de adicción y violencia cuando la epidemia de opiáceos se apodera de su pequeño pueblo.
El joven detective
Executive Producer
Un niño detective que alguna vez fue célebre, ahora de 31 años, continúa resolviendo los mismos misterios triviales entre resacas y episodios de autocompasión. Hasta que un cliente ingenuo le trae su primer caso 'adulto', para descubrir quién asesinó brutalmente a su novio.
Lo que queda de nosotras
Executive Producer
Dos parejas de madre e hija deben lidiar con su dolor y sus complicadas relaciones cuando muere la persona que los conecta.
A War Story
Director
En 1997 Osama bin Laden declaró la guerra a los Estados Unidos. El corresponsal de CNN, ganador del premio Pulitzer, Peter Arnett, se embarcó en una misión para localizarlo y entrevistarlo.
Abandonados
Director
En 1989 el trimarán "Rose Noelle" zarpó de Picton, Nueva Zelanda, hacia Tonga con cuatro hombres a bordo. Después de que una enorme ola voltease el barco, estuvieron a la deriva durante 119 dias antes de llegar a la isla "Great Barrier".
Venus and Mars
Director
When an attack on a Palmerston North fraud detective made headlines in October 1996, the New Zealand public followed the media reports with fascination. They read like a plot of a Hollywood film or detective novel. Poison pen letters, satanic worship, a police hate crime, and a mysterious and violent pyromaniac. But little did the public know that as the truth emerged, the story was going to get far more bizarre, and the police would turn the focus of their investigation on one of their own.
Solo
Executive Producer
A teenage girl is terrorized when she spends two nights alone on a remote island as part of her camp counselor initiation.
Safe House
Director
Safe House is the story of a struggle for survival in an unfamiliar and threatening world, based on the true life experience of a woman in the early days of the witness protection programme in New Zealand. TV Movie
Wendy Wu: La Chica Kung Fu
Director
Wendy Wu es una chica normal hasta que descubre que es la reencarnación de una luchadora china con la misión de salvar el mundo. Gracias a su maestro budista Shen, Wendy podrá enfrentarse al malvado Yan Lo y librar al mundo del mal durante 90 años.
Power Rangers Ninja Storm: Lightning Strikers
Director
Every Ranger knows you should never trust an evil space Ninja, but Choobo scores with a scheme that changes the balance of power in the universe! Hunter and Blake are warped into thinking the Wind Rangers are their enemies. The resulting Megazord battles and Toxipod tangles land all the Rangers on a sinking island to sort things out by battling each other! There's a cold wind blowing toward a knock-down, drag-out fight when Choobo takes the Scroll of Empowerment in hand. Only the combined force of a super Thunderstorm Megazord could defeat this twisted evil
No One Can Hear You
Writer
Families are dying and reporter Trish (Kelly McGillis) finds herself reporting on a serial killing spree. After her daughter Lisa's (Kate Elliott) best friends are killed, she fears that her family may be on the killers list. Sheriff Webster (Barry Corbin) is not listening to her concerns, which leads Trish to wonder is he or his deputy might be involved. Then Lisa, her boyfriend Ben and her sister Amy receive threats.
No One Can Hear You
Director
Families are dying and reporter Trish (Kelly McGillis) finds herself reporting on a serial killing spree. After her daughter Lisa's (Kate Elliott) best friends are killed, she fears that her family may be on the killers list. Sheriff Webster (Barry Corbin) is not listening to her concerns, which leads Trish to wonder is he or his deputy might be involved. Then Lisa, her boyfriend Ben and her sister Amy receive threats.
The Shirt
Director of Photography
A caustically funny account of addict monomania.
The Shirt
Director
A caustically funny account of addict monomania.
Cody: Bad Love
Director
Cody’s investigation of an art theft leads him to Claudia who works at an art gallery where the certificate of the stolen painting is held. His judgement may be clouded when he discovers the federal police suspect Claudia of smuggling the paintings.
Absent Without Leave
Director
In 1942 Wellington, Daisy Edwards, 16 and pregnant, relies totally on her just-wed husband, Ed, who is little older than she. Ed is suddenly drafted into the army and is to be sent overseas to battle while Daisy is sent to her father in Auckland. When Ed's leave is cancelled at the last minute he takes the dangerous decision to go absent without leave to be with Daisy on her journey home. As a deserter, Ed is hunted, captured and imprisoned. Life inside is bad enought without the worry of what is going on outside. The film is based upon a true story.
Dangerous Orphans
Director
Three orphaned boys - O'Malley, Rossi and Moir - become blood brothers. When they grow up, they plot revenge on the crooks who got away with shooting O'Malley's father. The crooks are doing very nicely importing heroin and laundering money. The boys begin by killing one of the crooks, stealing his indentification and cleaning out the guy's Swiss bank account. But their revenge does not stop here... And the American end of the operation is getting very curious.
Other Halves
Director
A Polynesian street-kid and a much older middle-class housewife are both incarcerated in the same mental hospital - she for attempted suicide and he for habitual crime. A friendship grows between them such that she offers him a place to stay upon his release. However, difficulties arise with his continued criminal activities and dependence on her for support - then his gang moves in with them. The film is based upon Sue McCauley's award winning autobiographical novel.
The Lost Tribe
Writer
Anthropologist Max Scarry mysteriously disappears while doing excavation/research of a lost New Zealand tribe on a remote island. His wife and his twin brother Edward are clueless as to what could have happened, a situation complicated by their city's police suspecting that one of the brothers murdered a local prostitute who was found with a strange tribal charm on her body matching one found in Max's abandoned hut. What most certainly isn't helping matters is the strange behavior of Max's daughter as she seems to have visions beyond possibility, warnings of a supernatural threat and her uncle's fate - and she's the film's narrator, to boot. Edward decides to go to the island to find out exactly what happened, but the deeper he goes into the mystery the more perilous and unknowable his world becomes, leading towards a shocking fate that raises more questions than it answers. (cont. http://view-from-the-paperhouse.blogspot.de/2014/10/the-threat-of-ancient-echoes-lost-tribe.html)
The Lost Tribe
Director
Anthropologist Max Scarry mysteriously disappears while doing excavation/research of a lost New Zealand tribe on a remote island. His wife and his twin brother Edward are clueless as to what could have happened, a situation complicated by their city's police suspecting that one of the brothers murdered a local prostitute who was found with a strange tribal charm on her body matching one found in Max's abandoned hut. What most certainly isn't helping matters is the strange behavior of Max's daughter as she seems to have visions beyond possibility, warnings of a supernatural threat and her uncle's fate - and she's the film's narrator, to boot. Edward decides to go to the island to find out exactly what happened, but the deeper he goes into the mystery the more perilous and unknowable his world becomes, leading towards a shocking fate that raises more questions than it answers. (cont. http://view-from-the-paperhouse.blogspot.de/2014/10/the-threat-of-ancient-echoes-lost-tribe.html)
Beyond Reasonable Doubt
Director
A docu-drama covering one of the most famous cases in New Zealand history, the murder of Harvey and Jeanette Crewe in 1970.