Matthew Sunderland
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Matthew "Matt" Sunderland (born c.1972) is a New Zealand actor. He performed the lead role of David Gray in the feature film Out of the Blue, based on the events of the Aramoana Massacre. At the New Zealand Screen Awards in 2008 he won Best Actor Award for this role.
Sunderland was also nominated for a Best Actor Award in the 2006 NZ Screen Awards for Natures Way, which screened In Competition at the Cannes Film Festival in 2006.
His other feature film roles include A Song of Good, Christmas, Stringer and Woodenhead as well as more than twenty short films.
Sunderland graduated from The New Zealand Drama School Toi Whakaari in 1997 and has concentrated on New Zealand film work with numerous theatre excursions also. He has appeared at the Silo Theatre (Fool for Love, Blasted), and the Herald Theatre (Trainspotting) in Auckland, and the Court Theatre in Christchurch (Peninsula) .
Sunderland appeared in the New Zealand soap opera Shortland Streets first official 90 minute episode as White Dragon in a storyline concluding the 3 year Kieran Mitchell story arc.
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A collection of sci-fi short films connected by an Armageddon theme, including an engineer circling a black hole in a pod, a 14-year-old girl and her father on the return journey to earth when an explosion cripples their aircraft, and a self-conscious Artificial Intelligence goes to the 4th dimension to fix humans future.
Controller / Cleaner
Mark y Henry crearán una fuerte relación de confianza luego de empezar a conversar al encontrarse en un autobús. Sin embargo, ninguno es quien parece ser, ambos cargan con secretos que pudiesen hundirlos.
Father
Atrapada en la granja aislada de su familia, Pearl debe atender a su padre enfermo bajo la amarga y dominante vigilancia de su devota madre. Deseosa de una vida glamorosa como la que ha visto en las películas, las ambiciones, tentaciones y represiones de Pearl chocan.
Father
Un hombre con un pasado misterioso huye del país para escapar de su propio infierno personal ... solo para llegar a un lugar mucho peor. En un esfuerzo por sobrevivir a este nuevo horror, recurre a su conciencia personificada.
Marlon
A miserable fishing enthusiast must overcome the darker creature that lives inside him to reconnect with his wife.
Davey
Ambientada en Tasmania en 1825, cuenta la historia de una joven irlandesa de 21 años que es testigo del brutal asesinato de su marido y bebé a manos de un grupo de soldados. Incapaz de encontrar justicia, con la ayuda de un rastreador aborigen emprenderá un viaje por el desierto en busca de venganza...
Tom Lovett
Londres, Inglaterra, abril de 1980. Varios terroristas asaltan la embajada de Irán y toman rehenes. Durante seis días, se mantienen tensas negociaciones mientras las autoridades deciden si debe intervenir un pelotón militar.
Dan
En 1925 el explorador británico Percy Fawcett se aventuró en el Amazonas en busca de una antigua civilización, cuya existencia los europeos llevaban siglos intentando demostrar. La ciudad perdida se conocía como ciudad 'Z', y en su búsqueda habían fallecido cientos de personas. Sin embargo, la expedición desapareció en la selva, y nunca más se volvió a saber nada de ellos. Ninguna de las expediciones que han seguido los pasos de Fawcett ha conseguido hallar la ciudad 'Z'.
Mark
Eade is a fourteen year old girl who has spent her entire life on the spaceship Cradle. Eade and her dad are on the return journey to Earth when an explosion cripples the craft and seriously injures her father. As the clock counts down to self-destruction Cradle’s computer, System, assumes control of the ship and refuses to perform the life saving medical procedure that her father desperately needs. Whilst trying to outwit System to save her dad, Eade discovers the shocking truth of her existence and must face her uncertain future armed with the knowledge that her life in space is not as it seems.
Steve, Barry's Brother
Después de perder a su hija de 12 años en un trágico accidente, el psicólogo Peter Bower y su esposa de mudan a Melbourne, Australia, lugar donde se conocieron. Al llegar, son ayudados por el Dr. Duncan Steward, que envía algunos pacientes de una clínica psiquiátrica a Peter, con el fin de ayudarle a recuperar la rutina de trabajo. Al descubrir el terrible secreto que sus pacientes comparten, el psicólogo decide regresar a su ciudad natal, donde tendrá que enfrentarse a un problema que sólo él puede resolver.
Wiry Man
The Little Death es una comedia realmente original sobre el sexo, el amor, las relaciones y los tabúes en una narración de varias historias.
Uncle Rory
Adrian is a classic outsider. His playful, dreamy imagination distracts him from everyday life, for the reality he lives in could not be more different. Neither his chronically depressed uncle nor his overworked grandmother understand the ten-year-old’s games. His mother abandoned him when he was very young and he is bullied at school. Just as news arrives that three children are missing, a new family moves in next door. Adrian develops a close relationship to their tomboyish, ten-year-old daughter Nicole and believes he is getting close to solving the mys- tery of the missing children. New Zealand forms the backdrop for this universal story for adults and those who have never wanted to grow up. It is a story about friendship and loneliness, emotions which Adrian already feels so poignantly as a child. The Danish first-time director’s expressive visual language dramatically merges water and air, reality and a hint of fantasy.
Rider
Trapped behind the Boundary Fence, Freya dreams of escape and pursues a dangerous outsider who can free her.
Col Klaus Meyer
El film se sitúa en Channel Islands en la víspera del Día-D, y se centra en unos comandos enviados a destruir los emplazamientos alemanes para distraer las fuerzas de Hitler y alejarlas de Normandía. Pero descubrirán un complot nazi para liberar fuerzas demoniacas para conseguir la victoria.
Paddy
Poppy is a Performance-Captured CGI drama set on France's western front in World War One. Two New Zealand soldiers are trapped behind enemy lines and are trying to find their way to safety. They find an orphaned baby under it's dead parents in a ditch. One of the men wants to save it, the other does not.
Vigo
Establecido en una vida hogareña y acogedora en Milán con su novio Paolo y su hija Julia, el fotógrafo y ex espía Jacob Keane se ve repentinamente atraído al mundo del espionaje cuando su antigua compañera Marta reaparece con su memoria borrada.
Lemuel
An emotionally traumatized stage magician has "escaped" into a fantasy world where he has real magical powers, but his career has taken him to performing at childrens' birthday parties. However, if he can find another stage assistant, his sleezy manager will give him another stage opportunity. Mostly he needs to find his way out of his mental state and that path is guided by some unexpected people he meets.
David Gray
Ordinary people find extraordinary courage in the face of madness. On 13–14 November 1990 that madness came to Aramoana, a small New Zealand seaside town, in the form of a lone gunman with a high-powered semi-automatic rifle. As he stalked his victims the terrified and confused residents were trapped for 24 hours while a handful of under-resourced and under-armed local policemen risked their lives trying to find him and save the survivors. Based on true events.
Tramp's vocals
An innocent rubbish tip assistant, Gert, is given the task of escorting a beautiful mute "princess", Plum, on a perilous journey to meet her prospective husband. Their journey is fraught with danger, challenges, romance and discovery. In surreal action, they encounter a menagerie of characters and animals in far-flung corners of New Zealand.
Gustav the Strongman
An innocent rubbish tip assistant, Gert, is given the task of escorting a beautiful mute "princess", Plum, on a perilous journey to meet her prospective husband. Their journey is fraught with danger, challenges, romance and discovery. In surreal action, they encounter a menagerie of characters and animals in far-flung corners of New Zealand.
Brett
"This singular, bleakly funny, R-rated vision of Kiwi life clinches King's position as the most distinctive new voice in NZ film, as insistent and inescapable as The Warehouse jingle." - New Zealand International Film Festival director Bill Godsen. Made at the beginning of the digital revolution, this micro-budget feature went on to win several awards and be selected for major Fests incl. Toronto, Locarno, Edinburgh, and Melbourne.
Brother
In this alarming early short from Gregory King a 13-year-old boy's shoplifting escapade is narrated brilliantly by actress Madeleine Sami who performs the teenage boy incarnation of the Adult Man whose account of domestic abuse this is, while adult actors play the kids in the remembered story. What starts out as teen shenanigans (a porn stash is accrued with the five-finger discount) turns unsettling as a beating is doled out by Dad as punishment. The contrast between the naive voice and what is seen on screen - shot in hand-held close ups - is something unforgettable.
MAN
An experimental twist on the "fly on the wall" film. Here a handheld camera becomes the fly and the connection between three groups of modern city dwellers. Gregory King's first film won ‘Most Outstanding Achievement in a Video Production’ at the Melbourne International Film Festival. The festival hailed POP as ‘Possibly the most extraordinary film at MIFF this year…As we stand before the precipice of the next century, the film poignantly throws into question the definition of cinema itself.’
