Alun Bollinger

Whetū Mārama is the story of Sir Hekenukumai Ngaiwi Puhipi and his significance for Māori in rekindling their wayfinding DNA, reclaiming our place as traditional star voyages on the world map.   

In Dark Places is the gripping story of an innocent man, imprisoned for two decades for a crime he did not commit, and an ex-cop's heroic battle to win him his freedom.

In Dark Places is the gripping story of an innocent man, imprisoned for two decades for a crime he did not commit, and an ex-cop's heroic battle to win him his freedom.

Charlotte Lockton, una inmigrante inglesa de clase alta, renunciará a todos los lujos para buscar a su hijo secuestrado. Recorrerá el oscuro mundo de la fiebre del oro de la Nueva Zelanda de 1860, encontrando amistad en estafadores, prostitutas, guerreros maoríes y mineros chinos. Pero finalmente, tendrá que enfrentarse al hombre que se llevó al niño, volviéndose así la mujer que nunca creyó ser.

Two first-time single mothers - on a girl racer, the other a pianist and gardener - share a post-natal ward room after the birth of their babies and develop a precarious friendship. As they face the challenges of new motherhood, they must confront their pasts and face the truth about their babies' fathers.

Colonización inglesa de Nueva Zelanda, 1868. Durante la guerra entre británicos y nativos maoríes, la vida de una joven irlandesa (Samantha Morton) se ve desgarrada cuando su hijo es secuestrado por su abuelo maorí. La búsqueda del niño será para ella una auténtica odisea.

A love story about a young man who runs away up an isolated Australian river and gets a job with eighth generation oyster famers.

Frank Bannister es un charlatán que posee extraordinarias facultades psíquicas, pero no las usa para hacer el bien, sino para ganar dinero hostigando a sus clientes con la ayuda de algunos espectros que trabajan a su servicio. La situación cambiará cuando en el pueblo empiecen a producirse una serie de muertes inexplicables.

Seven New Zealand women speak about their lives during World War II: some lost husbands, some got married, some went into service themselves. The director lets the women tell their stories simply, alternating between them talking and archival footage of the war years.

Cuando el director Peter Jackson descubre un escondrijo repleto de antiguas películas de nitrato en el cobertizo de un vecino se da cuenta de que tiene ante sí "la más extraordinaria colección de películas que jamás ha existido. Imagina que Ciudadano Kane apareciera de repente caída del cielo". Así comienza Forgotten Silver, esta pérfidamente divertida y aún así del todo creíble película que pone al descubierto la vida de Colin McKenzie, pionero del cine de la Nueva Zelanda de principios del Siglo XX que inventó las cámaras de cine, la película en color, el sonido sincronizado, el travelín y otras importantes técnicas cinematográficas antes que D.W. Griffith y los hermanos Lumiere. Su epopeya bíblica ‘Salomón’, para la que recreó la antigua Jerusalén en la jungla de Nueva Zelanda, es al fin reconocida como una obra maestra del cine en este "cautivador e hilarante paseo directo al corazón del amor por el cine".

Actor Sam Neill discusses New Zealand film and his own experiences within and without.

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.

Family drama set in New Zealand about Geoff Crome, a young boy (Fulford) who immerses himself in his own private fantasy world where he meets Firpo (Papps), a strange being who dreams of being an Olympic athlete. Together, the two begin a close friendship as Geoff attempts to help Firpo realise his dream. However, it is not long until the adult world begins to impinge on his fantasy.

The Haunting of Barney Palmer is a fantasy film for children about a young boy who is haunted by his great uncle. Young Barney fears that he has inherited the Scholar family curse; a suite of 80s-era effects ramp up the supernatural suspense. The film was a co-production between PBS (United States) and Wellington's Gibson Group, which resulted in Ned Beatty (Deliverance, Network) being cast. It was written by Margaret Mahy, based on her Carnegie Award-winning novel The Haunting, and an early fruitful collaboration between her and director Yvonne Mackay.

Teresa is a spirited young girl chafing under the oppressive attitudes of 1930s society, and her father in particular. She fancies her poverty-stricken Latin tutor Johnathan Crow, without realising he merely considers her a pleasant diversion and nothing more, and eventually follows him from Sydney to London. En route she meets the gentle banker James Quick. Whilst navigating her relationships in London, including with a political poet bound for the Spanish Civil War, she experiences a transformation in her understanding of love. Based upon Christina Stead's best-selling Australian novel.

Set in post-war (1949) rural New Zealand, this film traces the efforts of two con men to run a betting scam in a small town (Tainuea) already rife with illegal gambling corruption, and eccentricity.

Toss vive en una granja de ovejas con su padre en Nueva Zelanda. Cuando el padre de Toss muere en un accidente, Ethan, un cazador itinerante, vaga a la granja familiar y su abuelo le da un trabajo. La relación bastante inocente de Toss con Ethan se rompe cuando él establece una relación con su madre.

Making of documentary on the set of New Zealand's first epic Utu (1983), working with little money and dealing respectfully with matters of cultural protocol. Merata Mita discusses complex issues of inter-cultural conflict.

Delegates and workers discuss the issues that effect the Timberworkers’ Union, the reasons for the formation of the Combined Council of Timber Workers Delegates (CCD) and their industrial action.

This is the story of Puhi, an aged Maori woman and Niki, her fully grown but wholly dependent son. The world they occupy is not a world of large events but the rituals of everyday life, traditions and interdependence. “In Spring One Plants Alone” documents the minutiae of their very enclosed existence. Filmed over a period of one and a half years, it emerges as a rare, haunting and powerful portrayal of their life together. This is the story of their rituals and of their survival. The small and disconnected instances that we encounter form a lone vision of the rifts and the bond between an old woman and her disturbed son.

A Samoan male, Sione, and a Palagi New Zealand female,Sarah, meet while studying at Wellington's Victoria University. A relationship develops quickly, but each finds the other's culture a hard adjustment. Friends and family are not supportive, particularly when she becomes pregnant, although he proposes marriage. She leaves for Australia for an abortion and he returns to Samoa.

Colin is the deputy principal of a city high school (Avondale College, Auckland) who reluctantly applies for the principal's job on the latter's retirement. Colin's wife, Elizabeth - who is losing interest in him -gives a dinner party. Among the guests is Judy, temporarily reconciled with her husband for the sake of the children. Colin - who has taken upon jogging to combat a spreading waistline - and Judy, gradually enter into an affair.

Evil Eva and her cronies threaten to blow their enemies sky-high by reactivating the Rangitoto volcano with a nuclear device. However, the goofy gang isn't all bad - they like to break into song and dance while holding the city for ransom. Who will save the city from destruction? Why a talented trio of kids, including a nutcase who has invented an antigravity machine. The police force, zonked out on Eva's drugged coffee, are made ineffectual.

Malfred Signal leaves her life of stifling gentility as an art teacher in a South Island private girls' school and decides to live out her dream – painting alone in the remote North. One terrifying night, beset by a prowler, but confronting only her own image at every step, she relives her past.

A series of sketches about Kiwi extraordinaire Fred Dagg's secret mission to find a "bionic sheep" which has been lost by the government.

The story of two itinerant con men, the Wild Man and the Colonel, who operate on the West Coast gold mining towns of the New Zealand South Island during the latter part of the last century.

Tells the Māori legend of Uenuku and his affair with the mist maiden Hinepūkohurangi. A story of love, betrayal, and rainbow redemption. Filmed at the Waimarama base.