Alun Bollinger

Whetū Mārama is the story of Sir Hekenukumai Ngaiwi Puhipi and his significance for Māori in rekindling their wayfinding DNA, reclaiming our place as traditional star voyages on the world map.   

In Dark Places is the gripping story of an innocent man, imprisoned for two decades for a crime he did not commit, and an ex-cop's heroic battle to win him his freedom.

In Dark Places is the gripping story of an innocent man, imprisoned for two decades for a crime he did not commit, and an ex-cop's heroic battle to win him his freedom.

Recém chegada a zona rural da Nova Zelândia, Charlotte sente que sua felicidade está completa ao dar a luz a seu primeiro filho. Porém, quando seu bebê tem apenas alguns meses, sua casa é invadida, seu marido é assassinado e a criança raptada. Perdida em uma terra estrangeira, ela atravessa um selvagem e indisciplinado mundo de traficantes, prostitutas e guerreiros, à beira do perigo em busca de seu filho e determinada a encontrá-lo custe o que custar.

Two first-time single mothers - on a girl racer, the other a pianist and gardener - share a post-natal ward room after the birth of their babies and develop a precarious friendship. As they face the challenges of new motherhood, they must confront their pasts and face the truth about their babies' fathers.

Na década de 1860, durante a colonização britânica na Nova Zelândia, vive Sarah O’Brien (Samantha Morton) e sua família. O local está em meio à guerra entre os invasores europeus e os Maori, os habitantes da ilha antes da chegada dos forasteiros. Em uma sangrenta batalha entre os dois lados o filho de Sarah é levado pelos Maori. Após muitos anos anos percorrendo as tribos do país Sarah finalmente consegue reencontrá-lo, mas agora ele está inteiramente adaptado à cultura maori. Trata-se do início da batalha de Sarah para reconquistar seu próprio filho.

A love story about a young man who runs away up an isolated Australian river and gets a job with eighth generation oyster famers.

Frank Bannister (Michael J. Fox) é um médium charlatão que consegue "limpar" casas pelo fato de estar associado aos fantasmas que as assustam. Ele se vê de repente envolvido em combater o fantasma de um "serial killer", que voltou para continuar matando e quebrar todos os recordes de assassinatos existentes.

Seven New Zealand women speak about their lives during World War II: some lost husbands, some got married, some went into service themselves. The director lets the women tell their stories simply, alternating between them talking and archival footage of the war years.

The life story of Colin McKenzie, a forgotten pioneer of international cinema who was born in rural New Zealand in 1888.

Actor Sam Neill discusses New Zealand film and his own experiences within and without.

Durante os anos 50, Pauline Parker (Melanie Lynskey) e Juliet Hulme (Kate Winslet) se conheceram na escola e na mesma hora se tornaran grandes amigas passando juntas, todo o tempo possível. Criativas, escreviam sobre uma terra cheia de sonhos e fantasias. Cada vez mais essa estranha ligação entre as duas adolescentes se tornava uma obsessão, a ponto de se afastarem da realidade e de suas próprias famílias. Com o tempo, a duas perceberam que eram muito diferentes das demais pessoas e concordaram em assumir qualquer risco para que nada no mundo pudesse separá-las. Em uma época extremamente moralista, as duas famílias aumentavam suas preocupações pois esse universo de sonhos e fantasias está prestes a se transformar em um assassinato cruel que chocou toda uma nação.

Family drama set in New Zealand about Geoff Crome, a young boy (Fulford) who immerses himself in his own private fantasy world where he meets Firpo (Papps), a strange being who dreams of being an Olympic athlete. Together, the two begin a close friendship as Geoff attempts to help Firpo realise his dream. However, it is not long until the adult world begins to impinge on his fantasy.

The Haunting of Barney Palmer is a fantasy film for children about a young boy who is haunted by his great uncle. Young Barney fears that he has inherited the Scholar family curse; a suite of 80s-era effects ramp up the supernatural suspense. The film was a co-production between PBS (United States) and Wellington's Gibson Group, which resulted in Ned Beatty (Deliverance, Network) being cast. It was written by Margaret Mahy, based on her Carnegie Award-winning novel The Haunting, and an early fruitful collaboration between her and director Yvonne Mackay.

A jovem Teresa (Helen Buday) é muito pobre e vive na Austrália dos anos 30. Ingênua, apaixona-se pelo arrogante Jonathan Crow (Hugo Weaving), um professor que acredita no amor livre e no socialismo. Apaixonada, Teresa acompanha-o em uma viagem à Inglaterra, onde conhece o banqueiro James Quick (Sam Neill). O filme passa a focalizar o relacionamento dos três, renovado pelos ares ingleses.

Set in post-war (1949) rural New Zealand, this film traces the efforts of two con men to run a betting scam in a small town (Tainuea) already rife with illegal gambling corruption, and eccentricity.

Toss lives on a sheep farm with her father in New Zealand. When Toss's father dies in an accident, Ethan, an itinerant hunter, wanders onto the family farm and is given a job by her grandfather. Toss's fairly innocent relationship with Ethan is severed when he forms a relationship with her mother.

Making of documentary on the set of New Zealand's first epic Utu (1983), working with little money and dealing respectfully with matters of cultural protocol. Merata Mita discusses complex issues of inter-cultural conflict.

Delegates and workers discuss the issues that effect the Timberworkers’ Union, the reasons for the formation of the Combined Council of Timber Workers Delegates (CCD) and their industrial action.

This is the story of Puhi, an aged Maori woman and Niki, her fully grown but wholly dependent son. The world they occupy is not a world of large events but the rituals of everyday life, traditions and interdependence. “In Spring One Plants Alone” documents the minutiae of their very enclosed existence. Filmed over a period of one and a half years, it emerges as a rare, haunting and powerful portrayal of their life together. This is the story of their rituals and of their survival. The small and disconnected instances that we encounter form a lone vision of the rifts and the bond between an old woman and her disturbed son.

A Samoan male, Sione, and a Palagi New Zealand female,Sarah, meet while studying at Wellington's Victoria University. A relationship develops quickly, but each finds the other's culture a hard adjustment. Friends and family are not supportive, particularly when she becomes pregnant, although he proposes marriage. She leaves for Australia for an abortion and he returns to Samoa.

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.

Evil Eva and her cronies threaten to blow their enemies sky-high by reactivating the Rangitoto volcano with a nuclear device. However, the goofy gang isn't all bad - they like to break into song and dance while holding the city for ransom. Who will save the city from destruction? Why a talented trio of kids, including a nutcase who has invented an antigravity machine. The police force, zonked out on Eva's drugged coffee, are made ineffectual.

Malfred Signal leaves her life of stifling gentility as an art teacher in a South Island private girls' school and decides to live out her dream – painting alone in the remote North. One terrifying night, beset by a prowler, but confronting only her own image at every step, she relives her past.

A series of sketches about Kiwi extraordinaire Fred Dagg's secret mission to find a "bionic sheep" which has been lost by the government.

The story of two itinerant con men, the Wild Man and the Colonel, who operate on the West Coast gold mining towns of the New Zealand South Island during the latter part of the last century.

Tells the Māori legend of Uenuku and his affair with the mist maiden Hinepūkohurangi. A story of love, betrayal, and rainbow redemption. Filmed at the Waimarama base.