Donna Akersten

Donna Akersten

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Donna Akersten

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Love in Paradise Island
Susan Ward
Kelsey Donovan searches for her father, Jake, whom she hasn't seen in over twenty years. When he finds her in a picturesque small town in New Zealand, they can't get close. Kelsey's father works as a professional treasure hunter in New Zealand and also organizes diving courses for tourists with Dillon Ward. Kelsey doesn't like her father treating the handsome Dillon like he's his son. When Jake is nearly killed in a diving accident, father and daughter finally seem to bond. When Kelsey and Dillon begin to grow fond of each other, Jake isn't thrilled.
The Last Tattoo
Mrs Monahan
In 1943, U.S. marines are stationed near Wellington. One of them is murdered by the boss of the Hotel Workers Union, who is sitting pretty, exempt from military service and living it up on black market profits. Girls under the control of the union - of whom the victim's fiancee, Rose, is one - give sexual favours to the Americans, in return for information. The marine assigned to investigate the murder, tries to find Rose through a public health nurse who traces VD infections. However they discover there it more going on than they realized, involving a conspiracy amongst the Union, the government and the U.S. military.
Bread & Roses
mrs. Mackersey
Based upon the life of activist and trade unionist (and later MP) Sonja Davies. The film covers her life up to 1956, when, at age 33, she was elected to the Nelson Hospital Board. During this period she develops strong socialist beliefs, marries and divorces, at age 17 trains as a nurse, has a romance (and a child) with an American marine who is killed in WWII action. She battles tuberculosis and marries a former boyfriend when he returns from the war. She becomes part of a women's ill-fated campaign to save the Nelson railway line from closure and begins to be elected to political bodies.
Te Rua
Fiona Gilbert
A hundred years after the theft from New Zealand of three irreplaceable tribal carvings, two Maori, Rewi and Peter, decide it's time for ancient grievances to be put right. Both men are in Berlin where the carvings are stored in a museum. Plans go awry when a group that Peter has assembled breaks into the museum. Rewi persuades the others to let him put his own, more daring plan into action. Tensions build and international media interest broadens when a sniper's bullet hits Peter.
피블스를 만나요
Samantha the Cat / The Sheep (voice)
어린이 취향의 인형 쇼에 성인들의 추잡한 이면을 투영한 작품. 피블스 쇼의 여주인공 하마 하이디와 그녀의 남편이자 쇼의 제작자 해마(海馬) 블레치가 중심인물이다. 사기와 협잡, 모함, 성상납, 마약, 에이즈, 뇌물 수수, 연예계와 폭력조직의 결탁, 질투, 음모와 배신, 살인, 포르노, 스너프 필름, 황색 저널리즘 등의 최악의 현실 요소들을 한 자리에 모아 놓았다. 하지만 이런 끔찍하고도 추잡한 현실 속에서도 잭슨이 희망적인 메시지로 심어 놓은 캐릭터가 '귀여운' 고슴도치 로버트와 그와 사랑에 빠지는 푸들이다. 추악한 현실에 대한 우화이며, 씁쓸한 분위기가 감도는 풍자 코미디
Bad Blood
Doreen Bond
During World War 2, a farmer in New Zealand murders seven people. The police, along with local Maori trackers, hunt him in the bush country.
Squeeze
Richard Turner made Squeeze to break the "conspiracy of silence" about homosexuality. A pioneering early portrait of Auckland's LGBT scene, Squeeze centres on the relationship between a young man (Paul Eady) and the confident executive (Robert Shannon) who romances him, then mentions he has a fiancée. The film was discussed in Parliament after Patricia Bartlett campaigned against the possibility it might get NZ Film Commission funding (it didn't). Kevin Thomas in The LA Times praised Squeeze's integrity and the "steadfast compassion with which it views its hero".
Middle Age Spread
Judy
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.
적색 영웅
Mary
파업과 폭동으로 불안한 정국의 뉴질랜드의 볼크너 국무총리는 테러리스트들의 세력에 맞서기 위해 고도로 훈련된 특수 부대를 창설한다. 한편 나날이 악화되는 정치 분쟁과 아내의 부정으로 인해 방황하던 스미스는 현실에서 벗어나고자 작은 어촌을 찾는다. 그곳에서 스미스는 폭도의 배후조종자로 체포된다.