Trees | Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision
Morrow Productions, an international, award-wining animation studio, was formed in Levin in 1950.
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Broken Barrier | Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision
Broken Barrier was the only New Zealand feature film made between Rewi’s Last Stand in 1940 and...
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Pictorial Parade. Pumicelands | Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision
In 1950 the National Film Unit (NFU) was restructured and the Weekly Review was replaced with...
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Flight to Venus | Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision
With “a movie camera, modelling clay and imagination”, Fred O'Neill built himself an...
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Birth of a City | Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision
This amateur film surveys the development of Porirua. Amateur films such as these are invaluable...
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Runaway | Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision
The Pacific Film Unit was founded by Roger Mirams and Alun Falconer in 1948. John OʼShea joined...
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Don’t Let it Get You | Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision
Between 1940 and 1970 Pacific Films and Producer John O’Shea almost single-handedly kept the idea...
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Gone Up North for a While | Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision
With the arrival of television in the 1960s the National Film Unit was no longer the sole...
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To Love a Maori | Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision
To Love a Maori was the first New Zealand feature film made in colour.
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Sleeping Dogs | Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision
Sleeping Dogs won the race with Solo to be the first 35mm feature of the decade.
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Goodbye Pork Pie | Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision
Goodbye Pork Pie was the first box-office hit of the new wave of films made in the late 1970s and...
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The Silent One | Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision
The Silent One is New Zealandʼs first feature directed by a female and it was the first film with...
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Vigil | Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision
A tax shelter during the 1980s encouraged private-sector investment in the film industry which...
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Mr Wrong | Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision
Mr Wrong was Dame Gaylene Preston’s first feature film and it played with genre and stereotypes –...
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Drum/Sing | Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision
Drum/Sing is a study of performance artist/musicians From Scratch.
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Footrot Flats | Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision
Footrot Flats: The Dog's (Tail) Tale, is New Zealandʼs first and only animated feature, it was...
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Ngati | Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision
Ngati was the first feature film conceived, directed, produced and acted by Māori.
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An Angel at My Table | Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision
In the 1990s, with the emergence of a new generation of filmmakers, the New Zealand film industry...
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Ruby and Rata | Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision
Dame Gaylene Preston's usual playfulness with preconceptions and stereotypes is very much in...
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The End of the Golden Weather | Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision
The film The End of the Golden Weather is based on the play of the same name by renowned New...
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