Peter Elliott

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.

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

Corren los años 20 en Viena. María, una niña a de 9 años vive en una casa repleta de objetos encantadores y soledad. Molestada por su irritante hermano Max y desatendida por sus bien intencionados pero distraídos padres, añora la compañía y la aventura. La víspera de Navidad su querido tío Albert llega con el regalo de un muñeco de madera cascanueces. Más tarde esa noche, la imaginación de Mary vuelve el muñeco a la vida. Presentándose como NC lleva a Mary a un viaje maravilloso a través de una increíble dimensión donde los juguetes asumen forma humana y donde todo es diez veces más grande.

In 1993 David Dougherty was found guilty and imprisoned for the abduction and rape of his 11 year old neighbor. It took two trials, two high court appeals, a petition to the Governor General and 3 years, 6 months and 1 week in prison before David finally won his freedom and was found not guilty of the crime he didn't commit. But it wouldn't have happened without the unrelenting efforts of three individuals - a journalist, a lawyer and a scientist - who put their own personal and professional lives on the line in order to prove that David Dougherty was innocent.

A Kafkaesque docudrama of an actual case involving a Christchurch small businessman and the New Zealand Inland Revenue Department. Most people can relate to running up against a bureaucrat (especially the tax man), who knows he can cause you trouble if you say something he doesn't like and then proceeds to use his power to hurt you. In this case, the businessman, Dave Henderson refuses to give in and, for the most part, kept his sense of humour.

El apuesto agente Kyle Considine y su hijo Zach deciden darse una oportunidad embarcándose en un lujoso crucero. Pero poco después de zarpar, el barco es inesperadamente secuestrado por una banda de terroristas que para recaudar una importante suma de dinero toman como rehén al joven Zach. A partir de entonces, Kyle emprenderá una lucha desesperada por salvar la vida de su hijo y de toda la tripulación.

La vulcanóloga Janet Fraser cree que su hija hará mejores migas con su padrastro si los acompaña en una pequeña excursión. El lugar elegido es el Mount Extreme, un volcán de Nueva Zelanda que parece extinguido. No será así, pues la montaña volverá a la actividad justo cuando los tres estén a medio camino.

In an inner city loft Belinda(Smuts-Kennedy) lives her dream of being a writer. Across the street is Suzanne (Rutter), a painter who has the success Belinda craves. Suzanne lives with Tony (Lovatt), an actor frustrated by his dead-end role in a soap, who is looking for a way out. Soon Belinda is caught up in a love triangle - which is just the experience she needs to inspire her first novel. This is about sex and love, success and failure, creativity and careers.

Nueva Zelanda, mediados del siglo XX. La amistad entre dos compañeras de colegio adolescentes es tan intensa y estrecha que despierta el recelo de los padres de una de ellas. Las chicas crean un mundo imaginario y lleno de fantasía en el que se refugian para vivir de espaldas al resto del mundo. Basada en hechos reales.