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2014 Rialto Channel New Zealand Film Awards
The 2014 Rialto Channel New Zealand Film Awards was the third presentation of the New Zealand Film Awards, a New Zealand film industry award. The 2014 ceremony took place in Shed 10 on Queen's Wharf in Auckland on Friday 12 December 2014. It was webcast live on the nzherald.co.nz website, and later broadcast on the Rialto Channel. Nominees and Winners Moas were awarded in 28 categories in three groups – features, documentaries and short films. The 2013 category of Best Technical Contribution to a Short Film was dropped, and the new category Best Visual Effects added for 2014. The awards were dominated by the feature film ''The Dark Horse'', which won six of its 13 nominated categories, including Best Film, Best Director and Best Actor. Features Rialto Channel Best Film * '' The Dark Horse'' ** '' Everything We Loved'' ** '' Housebound'' ** ''The Dead Lands'' ** ''The Last Saint'' Flying Fish Best Director * James Napier Robertson ('' The Dark Horse'') ** Max Currie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ant Timpson
Ant Timpson (born 21 April 1966) is a New Zealand film producer best known for producing ''The ABCs of Death'' series, '' Turbo Kid'', ''Deathgasm'' and ''The Greasy Strangler''. He founded and hosts the 48Hours film contest. Career In 2003, Timpson founded the annual 48Hours film challenge, a New Zealand-based competition where teams of filmmakers create a short film in 48 hours. Taika Waititi and Te Radar won in the festival's first year. The film '' Turbo Kid'' originated as a submission for the "T" segment in '' ABCs of Death''. Though not selected, Timpson was impressed and approached the filmmakers to expand it into a feature. Timpson got Elijah Wood and his production company, SpectreVision, involved in producing ''The Greasy Strangler''. In 2016, he won the British Independent Film Awards Discovery Award. Also in 2016, he won a Saturn Award for Best International Film. In January 2017, it was announced Timpson would produce a new horror anthology, ''The Field Guid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matt Whelan
Matt Whelan (born 1985) is a New Zealand actor and comedian. Whelan is known for his roles as Brad Caulfield in the New Zealand television comedy-drama programme ''Go Girls''. He has also played Playboy founder Hugh Hefner in the Amazon Original series '' American Playboy: The Hugh Hefner Story''. Whelan plays DEA agent Van Ness in the Netflix original series '' Narcos''. Early life Whelan was born in Christchurch, Canterbury on the South Island of New Zealand. Whelan graduated from Toi Whakaari: New Zealand Drama School, one of New Zealand's most prestigious drama schools located in Wellington. Completing a Bachelor of Performing Arts in acting in 2007, immediately upon graduating he joined the cast of Show of Hands, performing alongside Melanie Lynskey. Career In April 2017, it was revealed Whelan would be playing the prestigious role as Playboy founder, Hugh Hefner, in the 2017 Amazon original docu-series, American Playboy: The Hugh Hefner Story. The ten-episode series, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Clarke (satirist)
John Morrison Clarke (29 July 1948 – 9 April 2017) was a New Zealand comedian, writer and satirist who lived and worked in Australia from the late 1970s. He was a highly regarded actor and writer whose work appeared on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) in both radio and television and also in print. He is principally known for his character Fred Dagg and his long-running collaboration with fellow satirist Bryan Dawe, which lasted from 1989 to his death in 2017, as well as for his success as a comic actor in Australian and New Zealand film and television. Early life and career Clarke was born on 29 July 1948 in Palmerston North, New Zealand, the son of Ted Clarke and Neva Clarke-McKenna. He moved to Wellington and attended Scots College before studying at Victoria University of Wellington between 1967 and 1970. Clarke first became known during the mid to late 1970s for portraying a laconic farmer called Fred Dagg on stage, film and television. Gumboot and singlet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alun Bollinger
Alun Robert Bollinger (born 1948) is a New Zealand cinematographer, who has worked on several Peter Jackson films, and many other films in New Zealand. He has also been a Director of Photography, including the second unit for Peter Jackson's trilogy ''The Lord of the Rings''. He started as a trainee cine-camera operator for television with the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation in 1966. In the 2005 Queen's Birthday Honours, Bollinger was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to cinematography. A documentary released in 2008, '' Barefoot Cinema: The Art and Life of Cinematographer Alun Bollinger'', turns the camera 180 degrees and looks at Bollinger's work and life. He lives at Blacks Point, near Reefton on the West Coast of New Zealand, with his wife Helen. Selected filmography ;Cinematographer *1977: ''Wild Man'' *1977: ''Dagg Day Afternoon'' *1978: ''Charlie Horse'' *1980: ''Beyond Reasonable Doubt'' *1981: ''Goodbye Pork Pie'' *1983: '' P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hip Hop-eration
''Hip Hop-eration'' is a New Zealand documentary film about a dance troupe managed by communications consultant turned flash mob choreographer Billie Jordan on Waiheke Island in New Zealand. The dance troupe (called '' Hip Op-eration''), with an average age of nearly 80 among its members, decided to apply for the special exhibition category in the Las Vegas Hip Hop International championships of August 2013. The documentary documents their journey through time, space and doctor's visits. It opened theatrically in Auckland on 22 September 2014. Cast * Kara "Bang Bang" Nelson (94, with cane) * Maynie "Quicksilver" Thompson (95) * Terri "2-cents" Wool-Moore Goodwin (94) * Eileen "Diva mystic" Evans (84) * Rosemary "Missy Ro-Yo" McKenzie (74) * Billie "Billie J Buzz" Jordan (44) Reviews The film was as well received as their act itself, and the movie included some appreciative footage of goodwill from young New Zealand Hip Hop talents Dziah and Krash, two Hip Hop dance troupes that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don McGlashan
Donald McGlashan (born 18 July 1959) is a New Zealand composer, singer and multi-instrumentalist who Is best known for membership in the bands Blam Blam Blam, The Front Lawn, and The Mutton Birds, before going solo. He has also composed for cinema and television. Among other instruments, McGlashan has played guitar, drums, euphonium and French horn. McGlashan has played with percussion group From Scratch, and bands The Bellbirds, The Plague, and composed pieces for New Zealand's Limbs Dance Company. His first hits were with band Blam Blam Blam in the early 1980s. He later released four albums as lead singer and writer for The Mutton Birds. Biography Early life McGlashan was born in Auckland, New Zealand. Both his parents were teachers: his father Bain taught civil engineering at Auckland Technical Institute and his mother Alice was a schoolteacher. McGlashan was actively encouraged to pursue music from a young age by his father, who bought him various musical instruments ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Survived A Zombie Holocaust
''I Survived a Zombie Holocaust'' is a 2014 horror film that was directed and written by Guy Pigden, and is his feature film directorial debut. The film had its world premiere on 16 August 2014 in Dunedin, New Zealand. Filming for ''I Survived a Zombie Holocaust'' took place in Dunedin and was credited by its producer Zoe Hobson as being "the first New Zealand Film Commission-funded feature to be made in Dunedin with a local cast and crew in 15 years." Plot Wesley is an aspiring writer late to his first day on the job as a runner on the set of a zombie film. His first task is to take one of the actors to a doctor; the nearby village is suffering from an actual zombie outbreak, but Wesley leaves the actor there without realizing this. During one shoot meant to be a sex scene, Wesley ruins the moment, and they actors begin fighting. Wesley is forced to stand in for the scene but Jessica bails out when Wesley gets an erection, much to his humiliation. Wesley considers giving up on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glenn Standring
Glenn Standring is a New Zealand scriptwriter, producer and film director, working in the action, horror and fantasy genres. He is from Feilding in the North Island of New Zealand. He is descended from Glaswegians and Mancunians on the European side and the Ngāpuhi tribe on the New Zealand side. Standring studied film at the Ilam School of Fine Arts, and completed a first class honours degree in Archaeology from The University of Otago in Dunedin. Career His last short film was the experimental computer animation '' Lenny Minute One'' which was selected for the 1993 short film competition at Cannes Film Festival. His first feature film as writer/director was the low-budget film '' The Irrefutable Truth about Demons'' (2000), which was nominated for best film awards at fantasy film festivals in Portugal and Spain. Standring's second film was ''Perfect Creature.'' The film was an ambitious horror/thriller set in an alternative universe New Zealand that incorporated elements ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chad Taylor (writer)
Chad Taylor (1964) is a New Zealand writer. Life Chad Taylor is a New Zealand author of novels, short stories and screenplays. He was born in Auckland. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Elam School of Fine Arts. He was the recipient of the Buddle Findlay Sargeson Fellowship for literature in 2001 and the University of Auckland Literary Fellow in 2003. His work has been translated in Germany, Italy and France. In 2006 he was one of 12 New Zealand authors invited to tour France for Les Belles Etrangeres. He appeared at the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2012. He currently resides in New Zealand. Work Taylor's style can be described as neo-noir. His themes include murder and love, sex, reality, identity and life in an intense, urban environment. ''The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature'' (1998) described him as: A writer of uncompromisingly contemporary fictions of transience and shifting realities in the modern city. Born and educated in Auckland, where his work is largely ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
What We Do In The Shadows
''What We Do in the Shadows'' is a 2014 New Zealand mockumentary horror comedy film written and directed by Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi and the first installment in the ''What We Do in the Shadows'' franchise. The film also stars Clement and Waititi, along with Jonathan Brugh, Ben Fransham, Cori Gonzalez-Macuer, Stu Rutherford, and Jackie van Beek. The film's plot concerns several vampires who live together in a flat in Wellington. '' What We Do in the Shadows'' premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2014. It was released theatrically on 18 August 2014 by Madman Entertainment and received critical acclaim. The film earned $6.9 million on a $1.6 million budget. Plot A documentary crew follows four vampire housemates—Viago, Vladislav, Deacon, and Petyr—who share a flat in the Wellington suburb of Te Aro. All of the vampires possess supernatural powers, including levitation and the ability to transform into animals. Viago is a 379-year-old dandy from the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lawrence Makoare
Lawrence Makoare (born 20 March 1968) is a New Zealand Māori actor. He is most known for his roles in ''The Lord of the Rings'' film series as several prominent antagonists, including Lurtz the Uruk-Hai and the Witch King of Angmar. Career Makoare was a road construction builder who drifted into acting after he accompanied a girlfriend to a drama class and was picked out by the teacher to perform because of his impressive height. He began his career performing as a stuntman. Makoare is best known for his roles in ''The Lord of the Rings'' and ''The Hobbit'' film trilogies. In ''The Fellowship of the Ring'', he portrayed the Uruk-hai leader Lurtz, and in ''The Return of the King'', he portrayed the Witch-king of Angmar as well as Gothmog, the Orc commander at the Battle of the Pelennor Fields. In '' The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug'', he portrayed the Orc commander Bolg, son of Azog. Due to filming commitments on '' Marco Polo'', Makoare was unavailable during the pick-ups ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonia Prebble
Antonia Mary Prebble (born 6 June 1984) is a New Zealand actress, best known for her role as Loretta West in the hit NZ comedy-drama '' Outrageous Fortune'', as Trudy in '' The Tribe'', as Jane in '' The Blue Rose'', and as Rita West, the grandmother of her character in ''Outrageous Fortune'', on the prequel series '' Westside''. Internationally she's best known for her role as Clare Langtree, the Gatekeeper in the 2006 series ''Power Rangers Mystic Force''. Early life and education Born on 6 June 1984 in Wellington, New Zealand, Antonia Mary Prebble is the middle of three children of John Prebble, a Sussex-born barrister and solicitor and a law professor at Victoria University of Wellington, and Nicola Mary Riddiford, an English teacher; Prebble has an older sister, Becky, and a younger brother, Ben, both of whom studied law. Her uncle Richard Prebble is a former politician, her uncle Mark Prebble is the former head of the State Services Commission, and her uncle Tom Prebble ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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