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The soc.culture.new-zealand FAQ (part 6 of 6)
Section - C5.1 Cinema

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There's a movie database somewhere with loads of NZ stuff.  If someone
trips over the URL, could they please post it.

Dave Joll mentioned:
  There are a lot of NZ films at the Internet Movie Database
  http://us.imdb.com/


C5.1.1  Films

NZ Film Commission             http://www.nzfilm.co.nz/
    Their links page           http://www.nzfilm.co.nz/aboutus_links.html
NZ Film Archive                http://www.nzfa.org.nz/
Film New Zealand (to promote NZ as a location)   
                               http://www.filmnz.org.nz/default.htm
Weta Visual Effects Ltd        http://www.wetafx.co.nz/

(Thumbnails by Dave Joll)

An Angel at My Table           Biographical movie re: Janet Frame (writer)
Bad Blood? (British/NZ co-production)
                               Based-on-fact movie about a murder case
Bad Taste
Battletruck
Brain Dead (US title; Dead Alive (god knows why they change it!))
Came a Hot Friday
Carry Me Back
End of the Golden Weather
Footrot Flats: The Dog's Tail Tale"  (with the "Tail" struck through)
Goodbye Pork Pie     Shot on location just about everywhere in the country. 
Heavenly Creatures
Hinemoa
Illustrious Energy
Map of the Human Heart (NZ director, Vincent Ward)
Maui
Meet the Feebles
Ngati
Race for the Yankee Zephyr
Sleeping Dogs
Smash Palace
The Navigator
The Piano
The Quiet Earth
          Sharing the title, but little else, of the Craig Harrison novel
Utu
Vigil

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C5.1.2  People

If anyone can be bothered posting a brief summary of any of these, I'll
include it (after people have commented).

Jane Campion
Peter Jackson
Bruno Lawrence
Geoff Murphy
Sam Neill
Ian Mune
Anna Pacquin
Graeme Revell - has done several major movie sound tracks (Until The End Of
  The World, Body Of Evidence, Hand That Rocks The Cradle).
Vincent Ward

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