Greg Smith

When 19 year old Heather Walsh accepts a job on a farm in the Mangatiti Valley, she has no idea paradise will become a nightmare. This true New Zealand story tells of Heather's horrific ordeal.

Francis is a struggling aspiring artist who receives an unusual proposition from a mysterious art dealer during another of his fruitless exhibitions. In return for restoring and old oil paiting by an obscure artist, Benjamin Brooke offers to represent and propel him into stardom. Claiming that his employer is a rich and influential man, Benjamin convinces initially hesitant Francis. At a private showing organised by Benjamin, Francis’ paintings sell out, marking the beginning of his artistic legacy. But the price Francis pays for his fame is high indeed – he has traded places with the Gentleman and is now trapped inside the painting he restored.

The best of plans can be thwarted and, when the pressure comes on, the cracks begin to show. As the incidents in their worlds play out, three families bound by love and broken by betrayal, find their lives unknowingly touch one another, and then a final single event brings them together. This is not a love story but a story about love; three loves, three lies and one more chance.

On the 7th of May 2009, Senior Constables Len Snee, Grant Diver and Bruce Miller arrived at 41 Chaucer Rd in Napier to serve a search warrant on Jan Molenaar for the growing of cannabis. This was just a routine warrant, something they had done countless times. What was meant to be an ordinary procedure turned into three of New Zealand’s darkest days and ended with one police officer dead, two officers critically injured and a member of the public fighting for his life. In some fifty hours Jan Molenaar made a permanent and devastating imprint upon the national psyche of New Zealand as he changed the lives of individuals, families, a police community, and a city. The siege was one of the worst and unexpected cases of violence both Napier and New Zealand had witnessed and it was all the more shocking because of its ordinary suburban backdrop.

Nova York, 1933. Ann Darrow (Naomi Watts), uma atriz de vaudeville, enfrenta dificuldades para se sustentar, como vários outros americanos durante a Grande Depressão. Ela caminha pelas ruas de Manhattan pensando na possibilidade de trabalhar em um cabaré, até que a fome a faz roubar uma maçã. Ann é salva pelo cineasta Carl Denham (Jack Black), que oferece a ela o papel principal em sua próxima produção. Inicialmente indecisa, Ann aceita a oferta após saber que o roteirista é o conceituado dramaturgo Jack Driscoll (Adrien Brody). Na verdade Carl está em apuros, já que o patrocínio para concluir seu filme inacabado foi cancelado e sua antiga atriz principal abandonou o projeto. Apesar dos problemas, Carl embarca a equipe e o elenco de seu filme no cargueiro fretado S.S. Venture. O objetivo da viagem é chegar na Ilha da Caveira, que tem a fama de abrigar uma raça perdida e várias criaturas consideradas extintas.