New Zealand Film Commission.

A documentary about the making of Roger Donaldson's feature film Sleeping Dogs (1977) which includes interviews with Roger Donaldson, Geoff Murphy, Sam Neill, Ian Mune and Warren Oates and stunts and special effects used in the film.

Infatuation and manipulation enter the lives of an adolescent and her father because of the arrival of a reckless femme fatale. A piercing modern fable entwining the lives of an awkward adolescent girl, a malevolent femme fatale, a wheelchair-ridden critic and a once successful novelist, Crush inhabits an unspoilt landscape - Eden before the fall. That is, until a car crash blazes a destructive trail through the lives of the three women and one man....

A woman finds something quaint in her kitchen sink and feels strangely captivated towards it... KITCHEN SINK is an original and full-blooded short film that combines humor with surrealism and leads the viewer towards the fantasy of horror.

The Orator(O Le Tulafale) is a contemporary drama about courage, forgiveness and love. Small in stature and humble, Saili lives a simple life with his beloved wife and daughter in an isolated, traditional village in the islands of Samoa. Forced to protect his land and family, Saili must face his fears and seek the right to speak up for those he loves.

Gaylene Preston's documentary deals with the personal experiences of seven women during WWII. Through interviews, archival footage, still photographs and popular songs of the time, she paints an absorbing and fascinating portrait of wartime New Zealand..The women's experiences are all different, yet almost all involve romance. Several had passionate, last-minute unions as young men were called to go to war. Others were fleeting encounters with American...

This Roger Donaldson documentary preceded the director's work on The World's Fastest Indian and fuelled his interest in Burt Munro whose motto was 'fix it and try again'. In 50 years, he had some 250 motor blow-ups, usually because the con-rods or cylinder sleeves couldn't take the pace...With basic equipment and astonishing ingenuity, he would rebuild the engine ready for the next try. He made cylinder linings out of cast-iron drain pipes and fabricated...

Al Shaw's life revolves around motor racing and his back country junkyard, the "Smash Palace". His French wife, Jacqui, doesn't appreciate the lack of attention due to Al's obsession with cars. When Al finds her in the arms of another man, he takes his daughter, Georgie and heads for the bush, desperately hoping to hold on to the only family he has left.

Making Utuexplores the kaupapa behind the production. It includes interviews with Joe Malcolm, cultural advisor on the production, and Murphy,Merata Mitaand actorMartyn Sandersonshare their understanding of the story's exploration of New Zealand's racial past.

The Whangara people believe their ancestor Paikea was saved from drowning by riding home on the back of a whale. The tribal group has since granted leadership positions to the first-born males, believing them to be descendants of Paikea. But then a young mother dies in childbirth along with her newborn male son. His twin sister survives and the little girl, Pai, is brought up by her grandparents. Learning the skills of chiefdom from her uncle, Pai...

A visually stunning journey to the end of the world with the hardy and devoted people who live there year-round. The research stations scattered throughout the continent host a close-knit international population of scientists, technicians and craftsmen. Isolated from the rest of the world, enduring months of unending darkness followed by periods when the sun never sets, Antarctic residents experience firsthand the beauty and brutality of the most...