Sam Pillsbury
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Sam Pillsbury is an American film director and producer.
Connecticut-raised Sam Pillsbury emigrated to New Zealand at the age of 14. Aged 23, he began working at the Government-owned National Film Unit, joining a group of emerging filmmakers who were investigating new subjects and styles.
Pillsbury directed seven films at the National Film Unit, including a multi-faceted study of artist Ralph Hotere, and a satirical look at workplace relations (Men and Supermen). He was also part of the directing team on Commonwealth Games chronicle Games 74, and worked both on set and at the editing bench for Paul Maunder's Gone Up North for a While.
Pillsbury went solo in 1975. Documentary Birth with R.D.Laing won awards on both sides of the Tasman, and controversy in England and the United States. The film featured controversial Scottish psychiatrist R.D. Laing critiqueing Western medical handling of childbirth. Pillsbury also worked on four documentaries for TV slot Seven Days, which variously looked into life for a solo mother, an ex-convict, hospital patients, and young Māori in the city.
More TV docos followed, then in 1978, Against the Lights, a short drama based on a Witi Ihimaera tale. Pillsbury's Round the Bays doco The Greatest Run on Earth won awards at festivals in Chicago and Torino.
Pillsbury's feature film debut in 1981 was with The Scarecrow, based on the gothic novel by Ronald Hugh Morrieson. Presented through the eyes of two teenage boys, the film chronicles the arrival in a 50s town of a mysterious stranger (played by American movie legend John Carradine). In 1982 The Scarecrow became the first Kiwi film to win invitation to the prestigious Cannes Film Festival, in the non-competitive Director's Fortnight section. Teen star Jono Smith later reinvented himself as a cinematographer in England.
Pillsbury then worked extensively on a screen adaptation of end of the world sci-fi novel The Quiet Earth, before handing the project to director Geoff Murphy after deciding it needed fresh eyes (he later joked at being one of the only directors who had fired himself). Instead Pillsbury helmed 1880s immigrant tale Heart of the High Country for TV (based on a novel by Elizabeth Gowans), then segued into period road movie Starlight Hotel, which starred Smash Palace discovery Greer Robson.
Since Starlight Hotel, Pillsbury has directed extensively, mainly on American tele-movies. He returned to Kiwi moviemaking in 2000 for Crooked Earth, the tale of a clash between two Māori: a militant drug-dealer, and former military man Temuera Morrison.
Pillsbury's other features include Free Willy 3: The Rescue, 2008 road movie Endless Bummer and Knight Rider 2010.
These days Pillsbury has a second career as a winemaker. In 2000 he and a business partner sold Arizona wine company Dos Cabezas to a group headed by the lead singer for rock group Tool (band). Pillsbury Wine Company was launched soon afterwards.
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어느날 아침, 잠에서 깬 과학자 잭은 자신이 지구상에 존재하는 유일한 사람이 되었음을 깨닫는다. 그가 참여하고 있는 비밀 에너지 프로젝트가 잘못되는 바람에, 인류가 멸종되어 버린 것이다. 잭은 필사적으로 다른 생존자를 찾아 나선다. 동시에 그는 평소에 꿈꾸기만 했던 여러 가지 일들을 실행에 옮기기도 한다. 그렇지만 풍요와 소유가 아무 의미가 없어진 세상에서, 그에게 돌아오는 것은 고독과 공허함 뿐일 따름이다. 그러던 중 그는 한 남자와 한 여자 생존자를 만난다. 여자를 사이에 두고 두 남자 사이에 미묘한 기운이 흐르는 가운데, 세 사람은 잘못된 실험으로 우주의 균형이 깨져 이러한 일이 일어났음을 깨닫게 된다. 그리고 세 사람의 종말이 찾아오는 것을 막는 유일한 방법은 실험이 이루어졌던 위성 기지국을 파괴하는 것이라는 결론에 다다른다. 그들은 폭약을 가득 실은 트럭에 타고 기지국에 접근하지만, 방사능 오염으로 가까이 가지 못한다. 절망한 그들의 눈 앞에서, 믿을 수 없는 일들이 벌어진다
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어느날 아침, 잠에서 깬 과학자 잭은 자신이 지구상에 존재하는 유일한 사람이 되었음을 깨닫는다. 그가 참여하고 있는 비밀 에너지 프로젝트가 잘못되는 바람에, 인류가 멸종되어 버린 것이다. 잭은 필사적으로 다른 생존자를 찾아 나선다. 동시에 그는 평소에 꿈꾸기만 했던 여러 가지 일들을 실행에 옮기기도 한다. 그렇지만 풍요와 소유가 아무 의미가 없어진 세상에서, 그에게 돌아오는 것은 고독과 공허함 뿐일 따름이다. 그러던 중 그는 한 남자와 한 여자 생존자를 만난다. 여자를 사이에 두고 두 남자 사이에 미묘한 기운이 흐르는 가운데, 세 사람은 잘못된 실험으로 우주의 균형이 깨져 이러한 일이 일어났음을 깨닫게 된다. 그리고 세 사람의 종말이 찾아오는 것을 막는 유일한 방법은 실험이 이루어졌던 위성 기지국을 파괴하는 것이라는 결론에 다다른다. 그들은 폭약을 가득 실은 트럭에 타고 기지국에 접근하지만, 방사능 오염으로 가까이 가지 못한다. 절망한 그들의 눈 앞에서, 믿을 수 없는 일들이 벌어진다
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The same night as a girl is slain in the woods, the teenagers Sam and Les are robbed of all of their hard earned hens. In the quest for their hens they cross the murderer's path.
