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Back to tasks //**---**// Begin post 1975. Go to Introduction: film New Zealand Directors post 1975 1. . Rodger Donaldson

Donaldson next went on to write his own screenplay. SMASH PALACE (1984) gained four press reviews in the USA including one from Pauline Kael. On the basis of this critical success Donaldson was invited to work in HOLLYWOOD. He only returned in 2011 to make THE WORLD'S FASTEST INDIAN (2005)

CHICAGO review The raw material of this New Zealand-made marital breakup film might seem overly familiar, but director Roger Donaldson does some fresh and complex things with it. Bruno Lawrence, in a magnetic, wide-ranging performance, is Al, a onetime Grand Prix driver who has retreated to his father's junkyard business—the “Smash Palace”—in the New Zealand scrub country; his French wife, Jacqui (Anna Jemison), decides she can no longer stand the life there, and walks out with their eight-year-old daughter. Donaldson's interests aren't merely psychological, but cultural and poetic as well: there are hints of Godard in the setting and execution, and the film is based on a beautifully sustained off-rhythm of stillness and motion, violence and tranquillity.

//**independent producers **//
 * 2. ENDEAVOR PRODUCTIONS. produces Niki Caro**
 * John Barnett : Produced John Clarke writer, satirist, director. (See below) eg STIFF Clarke moved to live in Sydney.**

//**There are a couple of Youtube interview highlights below with early NZ people: one is with Producer: John Barnett and one with American Kiwi, Sam Pillsbury. Pillsbury, along with Sam Neil, has first employment at the government unit, called the THE NATIONAL FILM UNIT**//

3. Geoff Murphy

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0614276/

Sam Pillsbury talks about the making of GOODBYE PORK PIE below

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imdb 2. Peter Jackson. See more here http://newmedia-senior.wikispaces.com/Peter+Jackson

http://www.lovelybones.com/#filmmakers/peter-jackson

4 **.** Niki Caro (born 1967) is [|film director], [|producer] and [|screenwriter] who was born in [|Wellington, New Zealand]. Her 2002 film // [|Whale Rider] // was critically praised and won a number of awards at international [|film festivals]. [|[1]] Caro graduated BFA from the [|Elam School of Fine Arts] at the [|University of Auckland] in 1988, and MFA from [|Swinburne University of Technology]. [|[2]] Her first movie, // [|Memory and Desire] //, was chosen for the New Zealand Prestigious Critics week in 1998. In 1999 the movie was voted best new film at the [|New Zealand Film Awards].

[ [|edit] ] Filmography
**2. Gaylene Preston** http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0812/S00045.htm http://www.flicks.co.nz/movie/home-by-christmas/ As the world becomes “bristling with electronic media”, Gaylene believes the byte-sized “stories” people are increasingly addicted to work against the age-old need to narrate. “I worry we are losing this very important basic human brain-stem thing – we’re not sitting around sharing great big long stories while we eat and drink and laugh together. Cinema is becoming almost the last bastion of long form storytelling communally shared. 5. Taika Waititi
 * ~ Year [[image:http://bits.wikimedia.org/skins-1.17/common/images/sort_none.gif caption="↓" link="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niki_Caro#"]] ||~ Title [[image:http://bits.wikimedia.org/skins-1.17/common/images/sort_none.gif caption="↓" link="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niki_Caro#"]] ||~ Credits [[image:http://bits.wikimedia.org/skins-1.17/common/images/sort_none.gif caption="↓" link="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niki_Caro#"]] ||~ Notes [[image:http://bits.wikimedia.org/skins-1.17/common/images/sort_none.gif caption="↓" link="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niki_Caro#"]] ||~ IMDB [[image:http://bits.wikimedia.org/skins-1.17/common/images/sort_none.gif caption="↓" link="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niki_Caro#"]] ||
 * 2009 || // [|The Vintner's Luck] // || Director, Writer, Producer || Based on the novel by [|Elizabeth Knox] || [|[2]] ||
 * 2005 || // [|North Country] // || Director || Inspired by a book by Clara Bingham and Laura Leedy Gansler || [|[3]] ||
 * 2002 || // [|Whale Rider] // || Director, Writer || Based on the novel by [|Witi Ihimaera] || [|[4]] ||
 * 1997 || // [|Memory and Desire] // || Director, Writer || Based on a short story by [|Peter Wells][|[3]] || [|[5]] ||
 * 1994 || //Sure to Rise// || Director, Writer || Short ||

= = http://tvnz.co.nz/entertainment-news/taika-waititi-s-boy-screens-sundance-3340102 =The thing I love about Taika Waititi is his pop culture references. A fan = ( See BOY poster below)

Waititi's next film is Wilderpeople http://screenz.co.nz/walker-and-darby-join-wilderpeople/

** Most filmmakers start by developing rite of passage stories. ** ** A current New Zealand director who has done this and appears to be rising in maturity is Taika Waititi. See a recent review of BOY. ** ** http://www.indiewire.com/article/review_waititis_remarkably_insightful_boy_succeeds_on_many_levels/ ** ** trailer ** http://www.listener.co.nz/issue/3324/features/1354/taika_waititi.html [|http://www.slashfilm.com/2010/01/24/sundance-movie-reviewvideo-blog-taiki-waititis-boy/**4**].

http://www.3news.co.nz/entertainment/taika-waititi-film-selected-for-sundance-2009120311#axzz3aU75DFwm ==

6. Christine Jeffs **Christine Jeffs** (1963 - ) is a [|New Zealand] born <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|film director] known for directing the <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|British] [|motion picture] //<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|Sylvia] //, starring<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|Gwyneth Paltrow] and <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|Daniel Craig], and the American independent film//<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|Sunshine Cleaning] // (2009), starring <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|Amy Adams] and<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|Emily Blunt]. Jeffs is also the director and screenwriter of the New Zealand film //Rain// (2001).<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|[1] ] <span style="border-collapse: separate; color: #000000; font-family: sans-serif,helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Jeffs lives in Auckland with her partner <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|John Toon], cinematographer of //Sunshine Cleaning// and her other films. wikipedia

<span style="color: #ff0037; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">Student course of study: recommended <span style="color: #ff0037; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">The American Western Look closely at these key directors: <span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 170%;">7. Jane Campion now is Sydneyside so is claimed as an Australian( and did her film degree there) <span style="color: #0017ff; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 23px;">BRIGHT STAR IS A THING OF BEAUTY interview with Jane Campion, director of BRIGHT STAR **Interviews. Bright Star -**

http://newmedia-senior.wikispaces.com/Campion hive.org.nz/feature-project/pages/Scarfies.php

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<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">female filmmakers need to be tough

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/cannes-film-festival/5333994/Jane-Campion-Female-directors-need-to-be-tough-to-make-it-in-sexist-Hollywood.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/10105994/Jane-Campion-interview-for-Top-of-the-Lake-The-world-is-focused-on-sexiness.html

**see below Also. Campion** <span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 180%;">8. Vincent Ward

**Vincent Ward** http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Ward

Bear in mind what film is For example, Vincent Ward is described as being impressed by Werner Herzog. Herzog was a significant film director during Ward's Tertiary education in the 1970's http://blogs.suntimes.com/scanners/2010/04/shooting_the_rapids_with_werne.html#more

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//Rain of The Children'//s world premiere was at the Sydney Film Festival (In Competition) on 7 June 2008. Voted by the audience from 250 feature films, //Rain of the Children// won the Grand Prix at [|Era New Horizons Film Festival] —a major international film festival in Poland. The film was also nominated for best director and won best composer at the Qantas Film and TV Awards in New Zealand. Vincent Ward was also nominated for best director at the Australian Directors Guild Awards. The film was nominated for Best Documentary Feature Film at the 2008 [|Asia Pacific Screen Awards].

Vincent Ward:

[] A second book by Ward is just out. A FILMMAKERS JOURNEY. **//The Past Awaits//**.( Craig Potton Publishing) look for it in the Hagley library reference section

An early reviewer for this film is Wim Wenders http://www.wim-wenders.com/

Vincent Ward. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #514e4e; font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.1871995925903px;"> IN SPRING ONE PLANS ALONE This lauded documentary revisits the subject of a film Vincent Ward made in 1978, aged 21. That film, //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #514e4e; font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.1871995925903px;">In Spring One Plants Alone //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #514e4e; font-family: Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.1871995925903px;">, told the story of 80-year-old Puhi, who lived with her schizophrenic son in the isolated Urewera. The follow-up — part detective doco, part historical re-enactment — focuses on Puhi's life. She married the son of Māori prophet Rua Kenana, had 14 children, and after a run of tragedies, believed herself to be cursed. The excerpt goes “way out there in the bush” to the Maungapohatu community where Rua, “made the city of God on Earth”.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0911910/ http://vincentwardfilms.com/vw/biography/ http://www.thebigidea.co.nz/connect/events/2010/oct/76468-vincent-ward-a-filmmakers-journey

from Scoop

Who were two early figures in New Zealand film of the Renaissance? <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">9. Leon Narbey



ILLUSTRIOUS ENERGY(1988). Dir. Leon Narley.

//<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #514e4e; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 13.3759994506836px;">Illustrious Energy //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #514e4e; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 13.3759994506836px;"> tells its tale largely through images of man and landscape, earth and sky. Recalling the Chinese poet who first inspired the project, Narbey and Edmond read Chinese poetry, and were impressed by how much it achieved, despite being so concise. As Edmond put it: “We wanted the film to look and sound like a T’ang dynasty poem.”

http://www.nzonscreen.com/title/illustrious-energy-1988/background#critique_0

10. Sam Pillsbury //Quiet Earth//**, produced by Pillsbury, directed by Geoff Murphy.** //Crooked Earth//**- Directed by Sam Pillsbury. Produced by Robin Scholes( Who also**
 * Sam Pillsbury now lives in the USA. He graduated with an MA in English from Auckland University.** //The Scarecrow//**, was the first film invited to Cannes. It is an adaptation of a book by Ronald Hugh Morrison. Ronald Hugh Morrison was a novelist**
 * ( See comedies with actors from the 1970's e.g Billy T James )**
 * produced One Were Warriors )**

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<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">11. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">12. Robert Sarkies Robert Sarkies SCARFIES http://www.filmarc

Hear Annie Collins(Editor) discuss Sarkies( Director of OUT OF THE BLUE)

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-- <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 160%;">13. Gaylene Preston

Q. What did your great-granddad do between 1939 and 1945? See: Home by Christmas by Gaylene Preston. at RIALTO. Christchurch. April 2010 http://www.flicks.co.nz/movie/home-by-christmas/

<span style="color: #a74920; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">or case studies: film. Go to IMDB.com the International Movie Data Base to look up titles, Producers and Directors. These are the key people. ( or. a star)

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">14. Lee Tamahori

The Patriarch adapted

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #4b4b4b; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12.1599998474121px;">The film is based on Whale Rider author Witi Ihimaera's novel, Bulibasha. Set in 1950’s and 1960’s New Zealand, Ihimaera’s story follows two families, the Mahanas and the Poatas, who battle for supremacy in the shearing sheds, on the sports fields and in their own hearts.

Lee Tamahori directs his second film on New Zealand soil since Once Were Warriors. Film shoot completes May 22nd in Auckland.

http://www.starnow.co.nz/listing/639842

http://www.voxy.co.nz/entertainment/new-lee-tamahori-film-shoot-complete/5/222301

more Directors and more films

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">15. Toa Fraser **<span style="color: #da4e51; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 21px;">Zealand cinema - the smaller storiesNo 2 **


 * No 2 (Number Two) official movie site
 * [|No 2 (Number Two) film production notes]
 * No 2 (Number Two) QuickTime movie trailers
 * Awards and film festivals:
 * [|Berlin International Film Festival 2005]: Panorama
 * [|Brisbane International Film Festival 2006]: Screening
 * [|London Film Festival 2006]: Special screening
 * [|Melbourne International Film Festival 2006]: Regional focus
 * [|New Zealand Screen Awards 2006]: Nominated: Best picture, Best direction (Toa Fraser), Best actress in a leading role (Ruby Dee), Best actor in a supporting role (Rene Naufahu, Xavier Horan), Best actress in a supporting role (Mia Blake, Miriama McDowell), Best screenplay (Toa Fraser), Best cinematography (Leon Narbey), Best editing (Chris Plummer), Best original music (Don McGlashan), Best contribution to a soundtrack (Tim Prebble, Mike Hedges, Dave Madigan)
 * [|Sundance Film Festival 2006]: Won: Audience Award: World Cinema - Dramatic; Nominated: Grand Jury prize: World Cinema - Dramatic; World première
 * [|Sydney Film Festival 2006]: Contemporary world cinema
 * Studios and distributors:
 * [|New Zealand Film Commission] * [|Buena Vista International]

Dir: Niki Caro

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">16. Michael Bennett Michael Bennett on Cow Whispering http://screentalk.nzonscreen.com/interviews/michael-bennett-on-directing-and-cow-whispering

See his contribution to film scripts and television http://www.nzonscreen.com/person/michael-bennett

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<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 160%;">17.John Clarke. Actor. Satirist. Comedian. No living in Sydney. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Clarke_(satirist)

Films
During the 1980s and early 1990s, Clarke featured in several films, // [|Never Say Die] //, alongside [|New Zealand] actor [|Temuera Morrison], // [|Death in Brunswick] //, alongside another [|New Zealand] Actor [|Sam Neill] and // [|Blood Oath] // (released in some countries as //Prisoners of the Sun//). Over the next five years, he continued to write and act in a handful of films, on top of his continuing series of mock interviews.

[ [|edit] ] Later career
Clarke had a commercial success in 1998, when he co-wrote (with [|Ross Stevenson] ) and starred (with Dawe and [|Gina Riley] ) in // [|The Games] //, a [|mockumentary] about the [|Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games] (SOCOG). The series, in which he played a character with the same name as his own, ran for two seasons, and featured guest appearances from a variety of figures, including singer [|John Farnham]. An early high point was when a number of foreign reporters believed it was genuine and reported plot lines as news stories.[// [|citation needed] //] In 2001, [|Billy Connolly] starred in a film based on Clarke's screenplay // [|The Man Who Sued God] // (re-written by Don Watson). In 2002 Clarke appeared in a villainous role in the movie // [|Crackerjack] // and as a comedy club owner in the award-winning telemovie // [|Roy Hollsdotter Live] //. After a quiet period, he re-emerged in 2004, adapting Melbourne author [|Shane Maloney] 's //Murray Whelan// series for film. This resulted in two films, // [|Stiff] // and // [|The Brush-Off] //, both starring [|David Wenham] and [|Mick Molloy]. Clarke directed //Stiff// himself and made a cameo appearance in //The Brush-Off//, which was directed by his old friend [|Sam Neill]. Clarke is the author of several books, notably two mock compilations of Australian poetry, and // [|The Tournament] //, a book describing a fictional [|tennis] tournament involving many philosophical and literary figures of the twentieth century. Clarke was inducted into the [|Logies] Hall of Fame in 2008. [|[5]] The Logie was presented to him by long-time collaborator and friend [|Bryan Dawe].

Stiff produced by John Clarke

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 160%;">18. Sima Urale



<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 170%;">19. James Napier Robertson http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/movies/cliff-curtis-is-the-dark-knight-at-heart-of-towering-nz-drama-the-dark-horse-20141118-11p2kn.html

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