THEODORA (2017)
Director: Abigail Greenwood
Writer: Kate Prior
Stars: Catherine Wilkin, Caitlin Bossley, Olivia Luxon
Alzheimers is pushing Meredith out of her home, but Theodora may not leave her kingdom.
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UNLOVABLE (2018)
Director: Suzi Yoonessi
Writers: Charlene deGuzman, Sarah Adina Smith
Stars: Charlene deGuzman, John Hawkes, Melissa Leo
A sex and love addicted woman learns what real intimacy is when she starts making music with a reclusive man.
The dramedy follows sex and love addict Joy (Charlene deGuzman), who moves in with her sponsor Maddie (Melissa Leo) during her recovery.
Joy begins to discover what true intimacy is after she joins a garage band with Maddie’s reclusive brother Jim (John Hawkes).
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ISLANDS OF THE GULF (2018)
Islands of the Gulf was New Zealand’s first locally made TV documentary series and Shirley Maddock – as well as writing, presenting and directing – became the country’s first female television producer.
Intended as a one-off programme, the series ran to five half-hour episodes, screened when local faces were still a novelty on NZ television.
Maddock’s subsequent book of the same name became an instant bestseller, providing a snap shot of life in the 1960s Hauraki Gulf.
It has recently been reprinted to coincide with a remake of the television series by actress and writer Elisabeth Easther, the daughter of Shirley Maddock.
21 POINTS
Director - Pete Circuitt
Story - Pete Circuitt
Written by Pete Circuitt & Steve Best
Director of Photography - Dave Cameron
Robot Design, T.D & Execution - Dan Brown
Editor - Jared Kahi & Pete Circuitt.
Producer - Rob Linkhorn
Line Producer & Studio Local Manager - Tania Smiler
Executive Producers - Robin Scholes & Andrew Adamson
Cast
Alan - Josh Thomson
Gary - Rohan Glynn
Mum - Robyn Malcolm
THE BREAKER UPPERERS (2018)
Directors: Madeleine Sami, Jackie van Beek
Writers: Madeleine Sami, Jackie van Beek
Stars: James Rolleston, Cohen Holloway, Celia Pacquola
Two women cynical in love, set up an agency to break couples up as a way to avoid letting go and moving on with their lives.
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BITE CLUB (S01)
Nine’s new crime thriller, Bite Club, boasts a killer star cast: Todd Lasance (Spartacus: War of the Damned, The Vampire Diaries, Underbelly Files: Chopper), Ash Ricardo (Offspring, Party Tricks), Damian Walshe-Howling (Underbelly, Bikie Wars: Brothers in Arms, Janet King), Deborah Mailman (Redfern Now, Offspring), Robert Mammone (Underbelly, Fat Tony & Co, Janet King), Pia Miller (Home and Away), Marny Kennedy (Janet King), Darcie Irwin-Simpson (Love Child) and Dominic Monaghan (Lost, The Lord of The Rings, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Wild Things).
After surviving a shark attack two detectives join forces to hunt the ultimate predator, the serial killer who is also hunting them.
Bite Club is currently in production in Sydney, produced by Playmaker for Nine with major production investment from Screen Australia, in association with Create NSW.
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SHADOW CUT (2018)
Writer/Director: Lucy Suess
Producer: Johnny Lyon
A day skipping school sets 13 year old boy and girl on a journey into the night, where they discover what they need - a shadow cut.
VERMILLION (2018)
Director: Dorthe Scheffmann
Writer: Dorthe Scheffmann
Stars: Jennifer Ward-Lealand, Will Wallace, Theresa Healey
Vermilion tells the story of a group of women who are close to each other – mothers, daughters,
friends and neighbours. Some of their relationships are good and some are broken. When the central character, Darcy, is confronted by a challenging truth, she finds herself driven to organise the wedding of her only daughter Zoe. Her best friend Sarah falls in love and twelve-year-old Issy just wants to be a bride too.
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TARANTULA (SEASON 01)
Studio: Rough House Pictures/Studio T
Team: Carson Mell,, Danny McBride, Jody Hill, David Gordon Green, Brandon James
Stars: Carson D. Mell, Jacob Vargas, Dan Bakkedahl
Tarantula is an animated half hour comedy written by Carson Mell (Silicon Valley, Eastbound & Down) and executive produced by Danny McBride and Rough House Pictures. Set at the Tierra Chula Resident Hotel aka the Tarantula, it centers on Echo Johnson, a respected but uncertified tattoo artist, who delivers absurd yet introspective monologues. Echo’s poetic ramblings tell tales of misadventures with the other residents including Lucas the sci-fi writer and bread truck driver, Booty the sensitive lead singer, and Bess, a lady whose toughness was forged in the local honky-tonks, as they partake in party crashing, dumpster diving, and other socially dubious acts of mischief.
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ASH VS EVIL DEAD (SEASON 03)
Creators: Ivan Raimi, Sam Raimi, Tom Spezialy
Stars: Bruce Campbell, Ray Santiago, Dana DeLorenzo
Ash has spent the last 30 years avoiding responsibility, maturity and the terrors of the Evil Dead until a Deadite plague threatens to destroy all of mankind and Ash becomes mankind's only hope.
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CHOSEN (MINI SERIES)
Stars: Jiajia Deng, Sam Hayden-Smith, Nathaniel Kelly
Chosen is a psychological thriller about an ordinary loving family caught in an extraordinary and deadly game. Mandarin-language three-part series, adapted from the US drama of the same name.
HERITAGE RESCUE (S02)
Each week, the Heritage Rescue team – led by expert Brigid Gallagher – tackle a museum or historic site in need of help, and learn some fascinating stories of New Zealand’s history along the way. Calling all small, quirky museums full of rich stories that are dying to be told and hidden treasures that need to be on display.
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THE LET DOWN (SEASON 01)
Studio: Netflix / ABC
Stars: Alison Bell, Noni Hazlehurst, Celeste Barber
The series, co-written by Sarah Scheller and Alison Bell, is being produced by Giant Dwarf for ABC in Australia and Netflix internationally (the latter also has local screening rights after ABC).
Alison Bell returns as Audrey to navigate the steep learning curve of motherhood as she deals with sleeplessness, shifting relationship dynamics, her issues with her own mother and her husband’s career ambitions.
The cast also features Duncan Fellows, Sacha Horler, Leon Ford, Lucy Durack, Celeste Barber, Leah Vandenberg, Xana Tang, Sarah Peirse and Noni Hazlehurst, most of whom appeared in the Pilot.
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FORENSICS (SEASON 02)
Forensics is a six hour prime-time documentary ‘crime’ series. If you are a fan of real crime ‘whodunits’ and CSI’s forensic science, then this show will have you clinging to the edge of your seat.
But be warned – sometimes the truth can be stranger than fiction. In this series, forensic scientists and police are the ‘heroes’, science is the ‘secret weapon’, and our presenter the ‘guide’, as we unravel the evidence, put science to work, and discover the truth behind real crime case files.
Each programme focuses on a real single crime case that has occurred in the last decade and that was solved by the combination of clever crime investigation and forensic science.
The cases are pulled straight from the files of our New Zealand forensic experts, police and scene-of-crime officers. This is in-depth, fact- based, high-tech dramatic storytelling.
The cases cover all facets of forensic science including blood spatter, DNA, tool marking, digital forensics, toxicology, entomology, and the latest in cutting-edge scientific technology.
These spine-chilling tales are told in a mixture of stylistic recreations, real forensic and police evidence, interviews and archives. Although each episode follows the story of a homicide,
the focus is not on the ‘gruesome and gore’ but on the complexity of crime and cunning of crime-solvers.
Viewers are taken through the events as they unfolded for the police and the forensics team, finding clues directly from the crime scene and as the data is assessed, the intricate puzzle of what, when, where, how and who will begin to unfold.
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Think Season One with Jacson and Dominique was all about tiny, Season two just gets cosier.
Mitre 10 Tiny House with George Clarke season One landed and blew up.
Now we're straight into Season 02.
Check out season one with Jacson and Dominique. Where they welcome George to their Raglan site, and figure out just how big a Tiny House really is. This 6 part series is not only on youtube, Mitre10 On Demand but now available at TVNZ On Demand.
TOURISM NEW ZEALAND: COURSES OF NATURE
It's nothing but good stuff out here.
just like our Sound design & Mix ...Clean, spacious, beautiful and 100% pure.
MODERN DINOSAURS (2017)
Directors: Mark Strikson, Quinn Berentson
Executive Producers: James Heyward, Kerstin Meyer-Beetz
Producer: Polly Fryer
An iconic 6part documentary series celebrating the biological diversity and geographic splendour of one of the world’s most unique countries.
Isolated from the world for 100 million years New Zealand became the ultimate storehouse for discontinued zoological models. New Zealand is home to bizarre animal species, geological wonders that have created some of the most amazing scenery on Earth and forests where you can literally travel back in time to meet living dinosaurs.
Modern Dinosaurs explores New Zealand’s unique wildlife and its extraordinary fossil record found among some of the world’s most breathtaking landscapes.
In a six-week tour of New Zealand, Modern Dinosaurs unearths some of the planet’s most unique species that have adapted to the distinctive Kiwi landscapes and rugged coastlines.
From glow-worms to giant lizards, this fascinating series uncovers the struggles and victories these animals endure on an island of isolation.
In the first episode of the series, Modern Dinosaurs takes a look at this incredible environment and explores its unique zoological wonders, including a look at the Tuatara and the world’s largest crocodile.
MAKE OVER MY FLAT (2017)
Company: Mitre 10
A 4 part series of inspired DIY flat makeovers. Putting those millenial renters to work !
Guides & Advice, Making DIY easy as. Supplying you with the right advice and materials to get the job done.
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ASH VS EVIL DEAD (ENTIRE SERIES)
Creators: Ivan Raimi, Sam Raimi, Tom Spezialy
Stars: Bruce Campbell, Ray Santiago, Dana DeLorenzo
Ash has spent the last thirty years avoiding responsibility, maturity, and the terrors of the Evil Dead until a Deadite plague threatens to destroy all of mankind and Ash becomes mankind's only hope.
PUPPY LOVE (2017)
Director: Abby Nath
Producer: Katrine Elnes
Company: Media Design School
A older lady comes upon a novel idea how to end her loneliness.