Adam Clark

As the Compliance and Outreach Manager for The Animal Discovery Institute, a non-profit animal rights organization headquartered in San Diego, Tilly Monterey finally gets a chance to lead the charge on the company's next project: an Australian penguin sanctuary in dire need of some financial assistance.

Willow and David receive serious news causing their world to rapidly disintegrate. This one day in June for the couple holds raw despair, unleashing their carnal natures but a transcendent occurrence offers them the hope of new life.

Two cars, one day: directed by Taika Waititi, this extended public service announcement uses humour to address the dangers of motoring under the influence of marijuana. A trio of tamariki imitate their Dads’ stoned antics, driving home what’s at stake when getting behind the wheel while ‘blazed’.

Es 1984 y Michael Jackson es el rey del pop- incluso en Waihau Bay, Nueva Zelanda. Aquí conocemos a Boy, un niño de 11 años que vive en una granja con su abuela, una cabra y sus hermano pequeño Rocky (que cree que tiene poderes). Poco después de que su abuela se vaya a un entierro durante una semana, el padre de Boy, Alamein, aparece de la nada. Habiendo imaginado una versión heróica de su padre, Boy descubre la realidad: un incompetente criminal de poca monta que sólo ha vuelto para recuperar el botín que enterró antes de entrar a la cárcel. Aquí es donde la cabra aparece...

In Rain of the Children, Ward further explores the subject of his earlier film, In Spring One Plants Alone when, as a young film student he travelled to the Ureweras and documented the lives of an elderly Māori woman (Puhi) and her schizophrenic son (Niki).

Lily es tímida, poquita cosa, dulce y rara. Este último es el calificativo que más abunda sobre ella, la causa de que a sus espaldas todos la señalen a carcajadas. Aún así, para Lily eso no es motivo de amargura, al contrario: es feliz sabiéndose distinta. Trabaja como cajera en un restaurante de comida rápida, y ya ni escucha las burlas de sus propios compañeros. Está demasiado pendiente de una hora concreta al mediodía, porque ése es el momento en que aparece para comer Jarrod, alguien como ella, otro inadaptado. Jarrod trabaja en una tienda de videojuegos, se considera un genio y sale de una depresión para meterse en otra. Jarrod prepara una fiesta de disfraces donde cada invitado se vestirá como su animal favorito. El suyo es un águila, el de Lily un tiburón.

Sometimes first love is found in the most unlikely of places, like in the carpark outside the Te Kaha pub.

Six Māori Battalion soldiers camped in Italian ruins wait for night to fall. In the silence, the bros-in-arms distract themselves with jokes. A tohu (sign) brings them back to reality, and they gather to say a karakia before returning to the fray. Director Taika Waititi describes the soldiers as young men with "a special bond, strengthened by their character, their culture and each other." Shot in the rubble of the old Wellington Hospital, Tama Tū won international acclaim. Invited to over 40 international festivals, its many awards included honourable mentions at Sundance and Berlin.

Baltimore, 1959. Danny's dad is the only man in the neighborhood who didn't fight in World War II. Danny, who's 12, gets teased and folks make nasty cracks about cowards. An old radio tower on a nearby hill is about to be torn down, and Danny decides to climb it to prove his courage. Help comes from an aging neighbor, Old Man Langer, a former construction foreman who's dying of cancer and wants Danny to help him commit suicide. Langer rigs pulleys and weights to help the lad make the climb. Meanwhile, an aggressive and angry neighbor (an army vet) regularly gets drunk and shoots off his rifle, and Danny's dad must confront him. It all comes to a head one stormy night.

A short directed by Brian Challis.