Catherine Fitzgerald

Jim se prepara para sua primeira luta profissional, mas começa a repensar sua trajetória de vida e sua sexualidade após se envolver com Whetu, um garoto Maori gay que passa seus dias em um velho barraco perto da praia.

Um passeio em família sofre uma reviravolta sinistra quando o professor Alan Hoaganraad, sua esposa e dois enteados se deparam com uma dupla de vagabundos sem escrúpulos em busca de vingança.

Freddy e Marvin têm os olhos postos em um futuro cheio de “dinheiro e mel”, acreditando que uma vida de crime e libertinagem os levará até lá. Infelizmente, viver uma vida de crime traz consequências. Quando uma série de trabalhos simples é malsucedida, eles se cruzam com seu inimigo mais intimidador, o Upholsterer. O caos resultante causado por seus dois capangas Semo e Royon em sua busca para encontrar os meninos os força a reconsiderar suas carreiras como criminosos.

In the wake of the loss of his beloved wife, a rural community rallies around a farmer to help him deal with his grief.

Liam is nineteen, fresh out of high school, and enjoying a life of parties and pills. He lives with his grandmother. He keeps her at an arm’s length, and so, when she has a sudden stroke, he ignores her call, and doesn’t find out until he reads a text message sent from Wellington Hospital. He rushes to the hospital, in the middle of the night, drunk and hopped up on cheap stimulants. He is greeted by a closed door, and a nurse who tells him he has to wait to see his grandma. Thus, Liam spends a night and a morning in the hospital, contemplating his decisions, while befriending a young boy who is waiting for news of his mother. A social-realist drama, Boxes is a story about regret, relationships, and the widespread existence of small tragedies.

A young inventor, Matt, is on a breakthrough creation in his garage workshop, but is about to lose his girlfriend due to his obsession, when a man walks into the workshop through a wall that his invention created. Soon police, undercover agents and murderers are all hunting for Matt and his girlfriend in a race not only against, but through, time.

Fourteen-year-old George has to find her own way to celebrate her birthday when everyone else forgets it.

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

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

Thom is an isolated teenage girl suffering from suicidal thoughts and depression caused by her deteriorating friendship with her best friend Milly. Thom’s only support comes in the form of her caring brother Joe. Through Thom’s journey of trying to heal her mental state does she come face to face with what it means to be a friend and how what appears on the surface is hardly ever the full story.

Paul Wolffram’s fascinating and eloquent doco about Māori instrumental traditions accompanies Richard Nunns and Horomona Horo as they perform in a series of remarkable South Island wilderness settings.