Matthew Sunderland
História
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Matthew "Matt" Sunderland (born c.1972) is a New Zealand actor. He performed the lead role of David Gray in the feature film Out of the Blue, based on the events of the Aramoana Massacre. At the New Zealand Screen Awards in 2008 he won Best Actor Award for this role.
Sunderland was also nominated for a Best Actor Award in the 2006 NZ Screen Awards for Natures Way, which screened In Competition at the Cannes Film Festival in 2006.
His other feature film roles include A Song of Good, Christmas, Stringer and Woodenhead as well as more than twenty short films.
Sunderland graduated from The New Zealand Drama School Toi Whakaari in 1997 and has concentrated on New Zealand film work with numerous theatre excursions also. He has appeared at the Silo Theatre (Fool for Love, Blasted), and the Herald Theatre (Trainspotting) in Auckland, and the Court Theatre in Christchurch (Peninsula) .
Sunderland appeared in the New Zealand soap opera Shortland Streets first official 90 minute episode as White Dragon in a storyline concluding the 3 year Kieran Mitchell story arc.
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A collection of sci-fi short films connected by an Armageddon theme, including an engineer circling a black hole in a pod, a 14-year-old girl and her father on the return journey to earth when an explosion cripples their aircraft, and a self-conscious Artificial Intelligence goes to the 4th dimension to fix humans future.
Controller / Cleaner
Um policial disfarçado constrói uma conexão intensa com um suspeito de assassinato para ganhar a confiança dele e conseguir uma confissão.
Father
Presa na fazenda isolada de sua família, Pearl deve cuidar de seu pai doente sob o olhar amargo e autoritário de sua mãe devota. Desejando uma vida glamourosa como ela viu nos filmes, as ambições, tentações e repressões de Pearl colidem, na impressionante história de origem inspirada em technicolor da icônica vilã de X.
Father
Ao tentar impedir um assalto, Rex Coen, um ex-militar acidentalmente mata uma mulher e vai para a prisão. Após a libertação, e agora infame em sua cidade natal, Rex decide sair do país em busca de uma vida melhor. Mas ele cai em um novo inferno quando é sequestrado por uma família esquisita que esconde um segredo obscuro.
Marlon
A miserable fishing enthusiast must overcome the darker creature that lives inside him to reconnect with his wife.
Davey
Na Tasmânia de 1825, uma jovem irlandesa de 21 anos testemunha o assassinato brutal de seu marido e seu bebê por seus amigos. Incapaz de encontrar justiça, leva um rastreador aborígene com ela através do deserto infernal em busca de vingança.
Tom Lovett
Em abril de 1980, uma série de homens armados invadem a embaixada iraniana localizada em Princes Gate, na cidade de Londres. Eles fazem todos de refém e durante os seis dias seguintes, um impasse tenso acontece. Um grupo de soldados altamente treinados se prepara para uma invasão nunca vista antes no mundo.
Dan
A incrível história real do explorador britânico Percy Fawcett (Charlie Hunnam), que viaja para a Amazônia no século XX e descobre evidências de uma civilização avançada desconhecida que pode ter habitado a região. Depois de ter sido ridicularizado pelo corpo científico que considera as populações indígenas como "selvagens", Fawcett está determinado a retornar à sua amada selva e provar seu caso.
Mark
Eade is a fourteen year old girl who has spent her entire life on the spaceship Cradle. Eade and her dad are on the return journey to Earth when an explosion cripples the craft and seriously injures her father. As the clock counts down to self-destruction Cradle’s computer, System, assumes control of the ship and refuses to perform the life saving medical procedure that her father desperately needs. Whilst trying to outwit System to save her dad, Eade discovers the shocking truth of her existence and must face her uncertain future armed with the knowledge that her life in space is not as it seems.
Steve, Barry's Brother
O psicólogo Peter Bower e sua esposa decidem retornar a Melbourne, na Austrália, lugar onde se conheceram, para tentar começar uma vida nova e deixar o evento traumático que marcou suas vidas para sempre no passado: a morte de sua filha de 12 anos em um trágico acidente. Uma vez instalados na cidade, Bower recebe a ajuda do Dr. Duncan, que realiza uma triagem de pacientes e os encaminha para o consultório do psicólogo como uma forma de Bower retornar ao trabalho mais facilmente. Quando tudo parecia se acertar, quando a vida parecia voltar aos trilhos, Bower descobre um terrível elo entre alguns de seus pacientes que o obriga a retornar a sua cidade natal e a confrontar um dilema que só ele pode solucionar.
Wiry Man
Uma comédia que explora as vidas sexuais secretas de vários casais que moram em Sydney. Um casal tem dificuldades com o sexo quando a mulher só consegue ficar excitada ao ser assediada. Outra mulher só consegue ficar satisfeita quando o namorado chora. Um homem descobre um aspeto novo da sua personalidade após deixar a mulher inconsciente. Uma brincadeira entre um casal vai tão longe que acaba não tendo nada a ver com sexo.
Uncle Rory
Adrian is a classic outsider. His playful, dreamy imagination distracts him from everyday life, for the reality he lives in could not be more different. Neither his chronically depressed uncle nor his overworked grandmother understand the ten-year-old’s games. His mother abandoned him when he was very young and he is bullied at school. Just as news arrives that three children are missing, a new family moves in next door. Adrian develops a close relationship to their tomboyish, ten-year-old daughter Nicole and believes he is getting close to solving the mys- tery of the missing children. New Zealand forms the backdrop for this universal story for adults and those who have never wanted to grow up. It is a story about friendship and loneliness, emotions which Adrian already feels so poignantly as a child. The Danish first-time director’s expressive visual language dramatically merges water and air, reality and a hint of fantasy.
Rider
Trapped behind the Boundary Fence, Freya dreams of escape and pursues a dangerous outsider who can free her.
Col Klaus Meyer
Na véspera do dia D dois militares do exército aliado são enviados às Ilhas do Canal para destruir armas alemãs desviando a atenção das forças de Hitler para longe da Normandia, mas descobrem um plano nazista de liberar forças demoníacas para vencer a guerra.
Paddy
Poppy is a Performance-Captured CGI drama set on France's western front in World War One. Two New Zealand soldiers are trapped behind enemy lines and are trying to find their way to safety. They find an orphaned baby under it's dead parents in a ditch. One of the men wants to save it, the other does not.
Vigo
Settled into a cozy home life in Milan with his boyfriend Paolo and his daughter Julia, photographer and ex-spy Jacob Keane is suddenly drawn back into the espionage world when his old partner Marta reappears with her memory erased.
Lemuel
An emotionally traumatized stage magician has "escaped" into a fantasy world where he has real magical powers, but his career has taken him to performing at childrens' birthday parties. However, if he can find another stage assistant, his sleezy manager will give him another stage opportunity. Mostly he needs to find his way out of his mental state and that path is guided by some unexpected people he meets.
David Gray
As pessoas comuns encontram extraordinária coragem diante da loucura. Em 13 e 14 de novembro de 1990, essa loucura chegou a Aramoana, uma pequena cidade litorânea da Nova Zelândia, na forma de um atirador solitário com um rifle semi-automático de alta potência. Enquanto espreitava suas vítimas, os moradores aterrorizados e confusos ficaram presos por 24 horas, enquanto um punhado de policiais locais com poucos recursos e sub-armados arriscaram a vida tentando encontrá-lo e salvar os sobreviventes. Baseado em fatos reais.
Tramp's vocals
An innocent rubbish tip assistant, Gert, is given the task of escorting a beautiful mute "princess", Plum, on a perilous journey to meet her prospective husband. Their journey is fraught with danger, challenges, romance and discovery. In surreal action, they encounter a menagerie of characters and animals in far-flung corners of New Zealand.
Gustav the Strongman
An innocent rubbish tip assistant, Gert, is given the task of escorting a beautiful mute "princess", Plum, on a perilous journey to meet her prospective husband. Their journey is fraught with danger, challenges, romance and discovery. In surreal action, they encounter a menagerie of characters and animals in far-flung corners of New Zealand.
Brett
"This singular, bleakly funny, R-rated vision of Kiwi life clinches King's position as the most distinctive new voice in NZ film, as insistent and inescapable as The Warehouse jingle." - New Zealand International Film Festival director Bill Godsen. Made at the beginning of the digital revolution, this micro-budget feature went on to win several awards and be selected for major Fests incl. Toronto, Locarno, Edinburgh, and Melbourne.
Brother
In this alarming early short from Gregory King a 13-year-old boy's shoplifting escapade is narrated brilliantly by actress Madeleine Sami who performs the teenage boy incarnation of the Adult Man whose account of domestic abuse this is, while adult actors play the kids in the remembered story. What starts out as teen shenanigans (a porn stash is accrued with the five-finger discount) turns unsettling as a beating is doled out by Dad as punishment. The contrast between the naive voice and what is seen on screen - shot in hand-held close ups - is something unforgettable.
MAN
An experimental twist on the "fly on the wall" film. Here a handheld camera becomes the fly and the connection between three groups of modern city dwellers. Gregory King's first film won ‘Most Outstanding Achievement in a Video Production’ at the Melbourne International Film Festival. The festival hailed POP as ‘Possibly the most extraordinary film at MIFF this year…As we stand before the precipice of the next century, the film poignantly throws into question the definition of cinema itself.’
