Peter Elliott

1920'lerin Viyana'sın da geçen öyküde, 9 yaşındaki Mary, sürekli onu inciten abisi ve onu görmezden gelen anne ve babası ile oldukça yalnız bir yaşam sürdürmektedir. Yılbaşı gecesi amcası küçük kıza tahtadan yapılmış, asker şekilli bir fındıkkıran oyuncağı getirir. Mary o gece hayal gücünü kullanarak oyuncağı gerçeğe dönüştürür. Kendini "NC" olarak tanıtan oyuncak ile Mary, tüm oyuncakların insan formunda ve 10 kat daha büyük olduğu diyarlara seyahat edecek ve o geceye kadar yaşamadığı maceralara yelken açacaktır...

Film, ergenlik çağındaki iki genç kızın arkadaşlıklarının hikayesini anlatıyor. Kendileri dışındaki herkesi dışarıda bırakarak, kendi yarattıkları hayal dünyasında yaşamaya başlayan bu iki genç kız birbirlerine sımsıkı bağlanırlar. Birbirlerinden aslında hayli farklı olan, farklı sınıflara mensup ailelerden gelen bu iki kızı birbirine çeken nedenler izleyiciye arka fonda sunulmaktadır. İlk başta izleyici bu iki genç kızın aşırı bağlılıklarına, kendilerini ayrıcalıklı kişiler olarak görmelerine, hayallerinde sürdürdükleri film yıldızlarıyla, opera sanatçılarıyla, kraliyet ailesi üyeleriyle dostluklarına sevecenlikle yaklaşmaktan alıkoyamaz kendini.Film izleyiciyi onların bu iki kişilik dünyalarının tam da ortasına fırlatır. Onların 4. dünya adını verdikleri bu sanat ve keyif dünyasının büyüleyici atmosferine kapılmamak olanaksızdır. Öte yandan arkadaşlıkları giderek tehlikeli bir seyir izlemeye başlar ve ebeveynlerinin yanlışları bunun üzerine tuz biber eker.

A Kafkaesque docudrama of an actual case involving a Christchurch small businessman and the New Zealand Inland Revenue Department. Most people can relate to running up against a bureaucrat (especially the tax man), who knows he can cause you trouble if you say something he doesn't like and then proceeds to use his power to hurt you. In this case, the businessman, Dave Henderson refuses to give in and, for the most part, kept his sense of humour.

A former firefighter and Special Forces officer takes on a team of murderous terrorists when the oceanliner he's working on is hijacked shortly after leaving port. Hired to evaluate security on a luxury cruise ship, blaze battler and former military man Kyle Considine (Casper Van Dien) brings his young son Zach along for a week of fun at sea. The fun stops, however, when the ship sets sail and a highly organized team of terrorists threaten the lives of everyone onboard.

In 1993 David Dougherty was found guilty and imprisoned for the abduction and rape of his 11 year old neighbor. It took two trials, two high court appeals, a petition to the Governor General and 3 years, 6 months and 1 week in prison before David finally won his freedom and was found not guilty of the crime he didn't commit. But it wouldn't have happened without the unrelenting efforts of three individuals - a journalist, a lawyer and a scientist - who put their own personal and professional lives on the line in order to prove that David Dougherty was innocent.

Melanie Fraser has a problem. Her mother, Dr. Janet Fraser, thinks that she can bond with her stepfather by accompanying mom and dad on a simple business excursion to see if a small tour guide company is a good investment for clients. The fact that the trip will take the threesome to the site of a volcano in New Zealand is nothing for Melanie to worry about. Old "Mount Extreme" is inactive and mom is a former volcanologist who should know a safe hill when she sees one. So what's the problem? Answer: somebody forgot to tell the gods in charge of lava control that they were about to host a family therapy session. Mount Extreme decides to live up to its name just in time to make Melanie's quality time with the folks seem like a big mistake.

In an inner city loft Belinda(Smuts-Kennedy) lives her dream of being a writer. Across the street is Suzanne (Rutter), a painter who has the success Belinda craves. Suzanne lives with Tony (Lovatt), an actor frustrated by his dead-end role in a soap, who is looking for a way out. Soon Belinda is caught up in a love triangle - which is just the experience she needs to inspire her first novel. This is about sex and love, success and failure, creativity and careers.

When an attack on a Palmerston North fraud detective made headlines in October 1996, the New Zealand public followed the media reports with fascination. They read like a plot of a Hollywood film or detective novel. Poison pen letters, satanic worship, a police hate crime, and a mysterious and violent pyromaniac. But little did the public know that as the truth emerged, the story was going to get far more bizarre, and the police would turn the focus of their investigation on one of their own.

Safe House is the story of a struggle for survival in an unfamiliar and threatening world, based on the true life experience of a woman in the early days of the witness protection programme in New Zealand. TV Movie

We call ourselves Kiwis. But do we really know where "our" bird came from? The answer is astounding... and rather disturbing. To trace the origins of the kiwi and the rest of our weird and wonderful wildlife, we travel back through time - to Primeval New Zealand. For the first time science is revealing the true story about where our wildlife icons came from, and the reasons for their unique evolution.

Power Rangers, ABD'de 1993 yılından beri yayımlanmakta olan bir bilim kurgu-macera dizisi ile film serisinin ortak adıdır. Diziye gösterilen ilginin ardından 1995 yılında Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie, 1997 yılında ise Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie adlı filmler çekilmiştir.1992-1993 sezonunda Japonya'da yayımlanan Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger adındaki Japon dizisinin ABD uyarlamasıdır. Dizinin ABD'de önce Zyu (Okunuşu: Jū) Rangers adıyla yayınlanması planlanmış, ancak Yahudileri aşağlayan "Jew" kelimesine benzediği için Power Rangers olarak değiştirilmiştir.Dizi iyi uzaylıların yardımıyla, dünyayı kötü uzaylılardan kurtaran gençlerin maceralarını anlatmaktadır. Gençler kötü uzaylıları yenmek için, "zord" adı verilen dev robotları kontrol edebilmektedirler. Dizideki robot sahneleri, genelde Japon versiyonundan alınıp İngilizce yeniden seslendirilmiş; diğer sahneleri ise Amerikalılar tarafından yeniden çekilmiştir. Diziye gösterilen ilgi sonucunda, karakterler ve oyuncular yıllar içerisinde sıkça değişmesine rağmen, dizi popülerliğini korumuştur. Öncelikle çocuklar için hazırlanmış, daha sonra zamanın çocukları tarafından benimsenmesiyle, takip eden sezonlarda gençlere de hitap etmeye başlamıştır.

The story of legendary safe cracker and career criminal Ted West and his firecracker of a wife, Rita. Combining real events and the rich folklore of the West family and associates, this is rollicking history, and a tempestuous romance, set at a time of great social upheaval.

A recently widowed father, quits his job as a popular 800 word columnist for a top selling Sydney newspaper. Over the internet he buys a house on an impulse in a remote New Zealand seaside town. He then has to break the news to his two teenage kids who just lost their mum, and now face an even more uncertain future. But the colourful and inquisitive locals ensure his dream of a fresh start does not go to plan.

A spoof of the British news — including ridiculous stories, patronising vox pops, offensively hard-hitting research and a sports presenter clearly struggling for metaphors. Adapted from Radio 4 series 'On the Hour'.

Agent Anna is a New Zealand Comedy-drama television series, created by Maxine Fleming with Vanessa Alexander and devised by Robyn Malcolm. Produced by Great Southern Film and Television and funded by NZ On Air and Television New Zealand. It began airing its first series of six episodes in New Zealand on 31 January 2013. It was confirmed on 12 August 2013 that the show had been renewed for a second series of 10 episodes.

Edward Forester is a genetic researcher, intent on breeding primate hybrids. But his experiments take a strange turn when he succeeds in breeding a human/gorilla hybrid. He hides the results of the experiment, adopting the child, and helps Gor to speak and blend into society. But Gor can't help being what he is, and tragedy and revelations are the ultimate result.

Set against the backdrop of the stunning Marlborough Sounds in New Zealand, Maggie and Tom arrive to escape his oppressive family and start a business. When Tom disappears, buried secrets and family plots make paradise less than perfect.

Gloss was a television drama series in New Zealand that screened from 1987-1990. The series was about a fictional publishing empire run by the Redfern family. It was a starting point for many actors who went on to many productions in New Zealand, Australia and around the world including Temuera Morrison, Miranda Harcourt, Peter Elliott, Lisa Chappell, Danielle Cormack and Kevin Smith. Writers for the show included James Griffin, who went on to write Outrageous Fortune, Rosemary McLeod and Ian Mune. The show's title theme song was performed by Beaver Morrison. The show has not been rescreened since its original screening, but selected extracts have been made available for viewing on NZ On Screen.

Retrace some of NZ's darkest days to reveal the stories, secrets and lessons learnt from our most famous disasters.