Mike Westgate

The year is 1859. Wanted fugitive Jimmy Joe Brown and his gang stop in the cleanest saloon one can visit with a bounty on one's head the size of theirs.

Eight-year-old Jesse lives in a twilight world of sadness and silence, squeezed into a tiny caravan with his grief stricken father. They're in limbo, existing more than living. The child intuitively understands that looking forward is harder than looking back, and that's where life happens. But they are stuck, until an accidental friendship with a V8 driving transsexual unlocks the means for Jesse to liberate his father and himself.

Minka is a teenage Polynesian boy living in the heart of the city. With his P-addicted mother well on the way to going completely off the rails, three people enter his life - each with a promise - each with the power to destroy.

Survivor turns into Lord of the Flies, as the contestants of a competitive reality show quickly turn on each other when they find themselves shipwrecked on a desert island.

Investigative journalist Alf Winters (Morrison), meets his American girlfriend, Melissa Jones (Eilbacher), at Auckland airport. As they park outside Alf's house, it explodes. It is soon apparent that persons unknown want them dead, but the police are either skeptical or in the pay of those responsible. They play hide and seek around New Zealand with the stalkers, all the while coping with car chases, plane crashes, bullets and explosions.

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 kid is hypnotized by a scientist to kill his parents and ends in a mental institution. As a grown up he returns to seek revenge over the scientist.

Остров Ява, 1942 год. Британский майор Селльерс попадает в японский лагерь для военнопленных. Его несгибаемый дух становится непреодолимым препятствием для тюремщиков. Начальник лагеря Йоннои верит в дисциплину и кодекс самурайской чести. В его глазах военнопленные являются трусами, которые предпочли плен смерти. Йоннои во что бы то ни стало намерен сломить загадочного британца. В противостояние этих двух людей невероятной силы воли и твердости духа пытается вмешаться полковник Лоуренс. Его любовь к культуре Японии и знание японского языка делают его опасной фигурой для обеих сторон - поскольку он может понимать и тех, и других...

Жизнь Ала Шоу вращается вокруг гонок и все время он проводит на свалке старых автомобилей, которую называет «Дворец Крушений». Его жена-француженка Джеки страдает от отсутствия внимания к ней, так как Эл слишком увлечен автомобилями. Когда Эл находит Джеки в объятиях другого мужчины, он забирает свою дочь и отправляется с ней вглубь страны, отчаянно надеясь сохранить семью.

Keskidee, a small Jamaican bird resilient in the face of hardship, is also the name of a self-help black arts centre in London, and the theatre group who work there. Keskidee's actors and musicians were brought to New Zealand to work with communities who face similar day-to-day dilemmas and who might be encouraged to express their frustrations and anger in drama, poetry and music. Keskidee were to act as a catalyst. the film shows some of their work and their response to the people they met. Tribal elders try to show keskidee the depth of Maori roots in the land, and the complexity and pain of their present struggles: against the loss of Aroha; against the laws of pen and paper; the alienation of their land; the suppression of their language; the devaluation of their people and culture.