Charles Eggen
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I currently reside in Oregon and am older than "The Bomb". I have a website dedicated to New Zealand feature films and their soundtracks. Drop by for a visit sometime - nzvideos.org
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Eight Māori female directors have each contributed a sequence to this powerful and challenging feature which unfolds around the tangi of a small boy who died at the hands of his caregiver.
When a mysterious young man arrives on a remote Sub-Antarctic research station, secrets threaten the relationship of a married couple working on the island.
Cansado del materialismo de la Navidad, Santa se escapa a Nueva Zelanda para unas vacaciones de verano. Cuando dos niños descubren quién es él, tienen que encontrar una manera de llevarlo al Polo Norte a tiempo para la Navidad.
Based on actual events surrounding a New Zealand drug scandal that involved the murder of Martin Johnstone of the UK, in the early 1070's. Johnstone had been dubbed "Mr Asia" by international police who were about to arrest him. Then when police were about to arrest his killer, that person was killed while in Police custody. Some feel the real "Mr Asia" is alive today. The film tries to tell about private efforts to try and reach the real killer and villain.
Adam is a 22 year old New Zealand born Samoan guy who falls for Mary. On a 'chance' encounter he learns that Mary only wants to go out with a 'real island guy' - not a plastic one. Adam realizes that to get rid of his 'plastic' ways and impress Mary, he'll have to travel to Samoa and have his cousins teach him how to be a real island guy. Three Wise Cousins is a feature length comedy, that will have you laughing from start to end; it's a film unlike any other that will surprise you with it's endless amount of 'wisdom'.
Un estudiante de interpretación usa el escándalo familiar de su novia como material para crear la función de fin de curso de la escuela de arte dramático.
Luke huye con un coche robado cuando se encuentra en la carretera a Jon, un escritor que acaba de cometer un gran error con su novia y pretende recuperarla. A ellos se les une en su viaje Keira, una chica que despiden de su trabajo en un restaurante de comida rápida. Con distintas metas, los tres continuarán su viaje en un mini amarillo por las carreteras de Nueva Zelanda.
Written and directed by Tearepa Kahi (Mt Zion) and starring Maaka Pohatu (The Modern Maori Quartet, Two Little Boys) the film tells the story of musician Dalvanius Prime and the origin of the song “Poi E”, a ground-breaking fusion of 1980s pop and traditional Māori music. “Poi E”, composed by Dalvanius and Ngoingoi Pēwhairangi and performed by the Patea Māori Club, remains the only song in Te Reo Māori to reach No 1 in the charts, over 30 years since its 1984 release.
The father of a deeply troubled household that endured tragedy both from without and within, seeks to reconcile with his youngest daughter by making a journey to both symbolically and culturally lay the family "ghosts" to rest.
Two first-time single mothers - on a girl racer, the other a pianist and gardener - share a post-natal ward room after the birth of their babies and develop a precarious friendship. As they face the challenges of new motherhood, they must confront their pasts and face the truth about their babies' fathers.
A comedy about a real estate agent who becomes the last chief of a sinking pacific island.
A romcom with a time-travel twist. Daniel Duncombe is not a committer. When he’s not working at a café or running to stay in shape, he’s perfectly happy to chill at home. Then he starts waking up from weird dreams to find cryptic messages scrawled on his bedroom window. Slowly it dawns on Daniel that the same mysterious force is guiding him into contact with a strange assortment of equally unattached strangers who intrude on his routine.
Fishing comedy/drama based on a true story about two mates in a Kaipara Harbour fishing contest who end up being blackmailed when caught cheating.
Recently divorced Carl and Julie are not on good terms. When their 19-year-old daughter goes missing in India, they must journey into the Himalayas in search for her.
Londres, Inglaterra, abril de 1980. Varios terroristas asaltan la embajada de Irán y toman rehenes. Durante seis días, se mantienen tensas negociaciones mientras las autoridades deciden si debe intervenir un pelotón militar.
Wound is a supernatural horror that explores the dark worlds of mental illness, incest, revenge and death. We follow Tanya as she searches for the mother she has never met – a mother who gave her up for dead after being abused by her own father who remains stuck in her present life. Tanya returns from the dead to confront and possess her mother with all her deepest fears and desires, sending Susan into a state of madness and gore filled retribution. A dark, disturbing look into a haunted woman’s mind. This is one terrible dream you will never wake up from.
En los años sesenta, el neozelandés Burt Munro se pasó años perfeccionando una moto Indian de 1920 con el fin de batir un récord de velocidad en las llanuras de sal de Bonneville (Utah).
Amid the high country of the North Island interior, wild horse roam and breed. With the trees gone, Dan Mitchell and the Sullivan brothers, turn to the wild horses as a source of income. With rope and snare - and the help of an experienced horse catching team - Sam and Sara's example, the rough ex-loggers learn to respect a delicate balance between the wild horses and their catchers. The best stallions are left to breed and their riding horses are retired back into the wild herds.
When Kirk, a top roller-blader, discovers that he has bone cancer in his leg, his pleasant affluent life is shattered. Even though amputation provides the best chance for survival; to him, losing skating means the end of life. His friends cannot cope with his condition, but his hospital isolation is relieved by Marty - a street kid survivor who was found dying of leukemia. Marty bullies, taunts, and challenges Kirk, until he begins to climb out of his depression. Marty seems afraid of nothing and, knowing she will die, wants to experience everything.
White Lies es una historia sobre la naturaleza de la identidad: los que la niegan y los que se esfuerzan para protegerlo. Paraiti (Whirimako Negro) es una mujer de la medicina. Ella es sanadora y partera de los pueblos tribales rurales - ella cree en la vida. Pero las nuevas leyes que están en vigor prohíben los curanderos sin licencia. En un viaje poco frecuente a la ciudad, se le acerca Maraea (Rachel House), la sirviente de una mujer rica, Rebecca (Antonia Prebble), que busca su conocimiento y asistencia con el fin de ocultar un secreto que podría destruir la posición de Rebecca en la sociedad de colonos. Si se descubre el secreto una vida se puede perder, pero si se esconde también puede tener consecuencias fatales. Así Paraiti, Maraea y Rebecca se convierten en protagonistas de un choque de creencias, el engaño y la salvación final.
La joven Beth regenta un restaurante cercano a una autopista por donde nunca pasa nadie. Un día recibe la visita de un joven herido que parece hambriento y desvalido. Beth lo invita a pasar y le da de comer. Pero pronto aparecen unos hombres que van tras los pasos del muchacho y le cuentan a Beth una historia totalmente diferente: el chico es una persona peligrosa responsable de las recientes muertes que se están produciendo en la zona. ¿A quién va a creer Beth"
A thriller set in 1932 about two nurses trapped in a country mansion with their invalid patient whilst a killer is on the loose. A series of unexplainable events start to occur and the nurses begin to wonder if they are no longer alone.
Between getting trashed, tripping, blowing guys off and writing songs, Mark falls for Stephen. Fig and Sally put perform Marks songs between casual sex with anyone and everyone. Katie is a few-hit wonder who hit rock-bottom in L.A and returns to New Zealand to patch her life back together. Stephen, Mark and Katie branch out for a slumber party at a beach house of their better days. Fig and Sally arrive, and not long after Eddie arrives also (Katies American guy). Mark stops running away from Stephens love, Katie and Eddie get engaged and Fig and Sally ... have sex?
Viago, Deacon y Vladislav son tres vampiros que comparten piso en Nueva Zelanda. Hacen lo posible por adaptarse a la sociedad moderna: pagan el alquiler, se reparten las tareas domésticas e intentan que les inviten a entrar en los clubs. Una vida normal, salvo por una pequeña diferencia: son inmortales y tienen que alimentarse de sangre humana. Cuando su compañero del sótano, Petyr, convierte en vampiro a Nick, nuestros protagonistas deberán enseñarle como funciona todo en su recién estrenada vida eterna.
Five years have passed and Jake has turned his back on his family. He's still up to his usual tricks in McClutchy's Bar, unaware, as he downs his latest opponent, that his eldest son, Nig, has died in a gang fight. The uncomfortable family reunion at Nig's funeral sparks a confrontation with second son, Sonny, and sets Jake and Sonny on a downward spiral.
En un pequeño poblado de la costa de Nueva Zelanda, los aborígenes de la tribu Whangara creen que proceden de un único ancestro, cuya existencia se remonta mil años atrás. Su nombre es Paikea, y escapó de la muerte, tras volcar su canoa, montando a lomos de una ballena. Según la tradición, el jefe de los Whangara, el “Whale Rider”, el Paikea, tiene que ser un primogénito varón. Pero Pai, una niña de once años, cree que está destinada a ser la máxima autoridad de la tribu. Por ello, aunque adora a su abuelo Koro, se enfrentará con él y con mil años de tradición.
Adrian is a classic outsider. His playful, dreamy imagination distracts him from everyday life, for the reality he lives in could not be more different. Neither his chronically depressed uncle nor his overworked grandmother understand the ten-year-old’s games. His mother abandoned him when he was very young and he is bullied at school. Just as news arrives that three children are missing, a new family moves in next door. Adrian develops a close relationship to their tomboyish, ten-year-old daughter Nicole and believes he is getting close to solving the mys- tery of the missing children. New Zealand forms the backdrop for this universal story for adults and those who have never wanted to grow up. It is a story about friendship and loneliness, emotions which Adrian already feels so poignantly as a child. The Danish first-time director’s expressive visual language dramatically merges water and air, reality and a hint of fantasy.
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.
Yang es un maestro con la espada que abandona su clan y huye de Asia para dejar atrás un sangriento pasado acompañado de April, un bebe que es el último miembro de un linaje enemigo. Yang termina ocultándose en un pequeño pueblo del oeste americano en el que conoce al borracho propietario de un circo y a una lanzadora de cuchillos que esconden poderosos secretos. Pronto se verá en mitad de una épica batalla en la que todo el mundo busca su cabeza: tanto los matones de la banda de los Jinetes del Infierno como su antiguo clan en busca de venganza por su traición.
The Vintner’s Luck cuenta la atractiva historia de Sobran Jodeau, un joven y ambicioso creador de vinos y los tres amores de su vida; su bella y apasionada mujer Celeste, la orgullosamente inteligente baronesa Aurora de Valday y Xas, un angel caído, que inicia una sorprendente amistad con Sobran que dura varios años. Una fantástica criatura con alas que huele a nieve, Xas se convierte en un mentor de lo menos convencional en la búsqueda del vino perfecto.
Toss vive en una granja de ovejas con su padre en Nueva Zelanda. Cuando el padre de Toss muere en un accidente, Ethan, un cazador itinerante, vaga a la granja familiar y su abuelo le da un trabajo. La relación bastante inocente de Toss con Ethan se rompe cuando él establece una relación con su madre.
As a family gather to watch one of their own swimming in the Olympics, minutes of fame become a hilarious and painful 24 hours when they uncover the secrets of a lifetime.
Un thriller geopolítico donde Gerry Anderson encuentra que, a veces, todo el mundo está realmente dispuesto a atraparte. La hija de Gerry, Mattie, imprime accidentalmente un código de ADN que en las manos equivocadas puede acabar con la raza humana. La persecución está en marcha: los rusos, van detras del código de ADN que Mattie tiene en su mochila, y un grupo de terroristas compiten para obtener el código de la persona que todos asumen que lo tiene, Gerry. Con todo esto pasando, la esposa de Gerry, Margaret, está preocupada por la seguridad de su hija y se encuentra a sí misma como un objetivo más en la carrera para encontrar el código.
Según el testimonio de un explorador que en 1608 llegó a una isla del Pacífico llamada Tokabaru, sus bellos y jóvenes habitantes celebraban periódicamente un extraño rito presidido por la estatua de un dios perro mientras bebían un elixir elaborado con unas extrañas anémonas marinas. La poción contenía supuestamente el secreto de la eterna juventud y daba vitalidad y fertilidad a quien la bebía. Un día, la estatua con supuestos poderes mágicos desaparece y llega a Nueva Zelanda, dónde dos parejas y un club de ancianos intentarán por todos sus medios hacerse con el tótem y con la poción con objetivos diversos.
Dos gemelos adolescentes descubren en un caserón abandonado unas misteriosas criaturas procedentes de los volcanes inactivos de Auckland. Guiados por el misterioso Sr. Jones y con la ayuda de su primo, los jóvenes deberán unir sus fuerzas para descubrir ese antiguo mal antes de que él les destruya a ellos.
A female psychologist wants to understand the minds of a confessed serial killer who spent the last five years in a mental hospital because of his state.
Nige runs over and accidentally kills a Scandinavian soccer star in an unfortunate incident involving a hot meat pie, a ginger cat and a policeman. He chucks the body in a nearby road works hole and runs to his best mate of fifteen years, Deano. But Deano's not the guy you should turn to in a crisis...
En un futuro post-apocalíptico, el agua es un bien muy preciado y en todo el mundo solo hay una ley, la del más fuerte. The Kid es un joven que se ha criado solo en un mundo duro y cruel, gracias sobre todo a la ayuda de cómic retro y otros objetos de tiempos pasados que se han convertido en su particular obsesión. Con ayuda de compañeros que irá encontrando a lo largo de su camino deberá luchar contra Zeus y su grupo de salvajes que se han autoproclamado los jefes de todo el territorio.
Housewife Rosemary Edmonds leaves her family to take up residence in a remote cottage on the Otago coastline so that she can conduct a photographic essay on the yellow-eyed penguin. No sooner has she moved in than she becomes the victim of a series of increasingly more malevolent attacks from an unknown assailant.
Part three of the Treasure Island Kids Series follows Charlie, a rebellious teenager sent to summer camp by his parents. This is not any old summer camp, this is the real Island.
Part two of the Treasure Island Kids Series follows Charlie, a rebellious teenager sent to summer camp by his parents. This is not any old summer camp, this is the real Island.
Part one of the Treasure Island Kids Series follows Charlie, a rebellious teenager sent to summer camp by his parents. This is not any old summer camp, this is the real Island. Meanwhile, the evil Captain Flint plots to take over the island and take all the gold hidden there for himself. Charlie must lead the kids to victory or lose the island for ever.
A young woman searches for her identity by joining a "free love" hippie commune, against the wishes of her darkly possessive widowed father. The tensions of small town New Zealand and individual conflicts generated by intolerance and fear, unleashes forces of violence and betrayal.
A principios del siglo XX, Un ex guerrillero boer en Nueva Zelanda debe capturar y custodiar a un maorí acusado falsamente de asesinar a un oficial británico. Cuando consigue capturarlo, surge una relación de amistad y respeto, pero entonces deberán hacer frente a un comando de soldados británicos empeñados en ahorcar al maorí.
Boy meets girl. Boy is already in a relationship. Boy's girlfriend is having an affair with the mechanic. Girl has a room full of cereal and a complex about "mat". How can there be a happily ever after?
Liz has missed an appointment to have an abortion. She has to keep her child, and neither her boyfriend Geoff nor child's father Neil are too happy about it. She can not decide which partner is better for her, and Neil makes a proposal to her when they attend the wedding of her best friend Prue and Mike. She probably prefers Geoff, but he is preoccupied with his girlfriend Bryony, who returned from abroad. Another friend, Ant, has written a script for documentary film, which is directed by a German and in which topless women, well, talk about their lives.
The Tongan Ninja is dispatched to the island nation of New Zealand in order to help a brother of his master with his floundering Chinese restaurant. But the mysterious Mister Big stands in the eatery's way as he sends numerous villains such as Knife Man, Gun Man, and the super-sexy Action Fighter who may know a lot about the hero.
A hundred years after the theft from New Zealand of three irreplaceable tribal carvings, two Maori, Rewi and Peter, decide it's time for ancient grievances to be put right. Both men are in Berlin where the carvings are stored in a museum. Plans go awry when a group that Peter has assembled breaks into the museum. Rewi persuades the others to let him put his own, more daring plan into action. Tensions build and international media interest broadens when a sniper's bullet hits Peter.
La vulcanóloga Janet Fraser cree que su hija hará mejores migas con su padrastro si los acompaña en una pequeña excursión. El lugar elegido es el Mount Extreme, un volcán de Nueva Zelanda que parece extinguido. No será así, pues la montaña volverá a la actividad justo cuando los tres estén a medio camino.
Un artista americano de tatuajes viaja por el mundo explorando y explotando temas étnicos en sus diseños. En una exposición de tatuajes en Singapur, entra en contacto por primera vez con el mundo exótico del tatuaje tradicional de Samoa. Su deseo de aprender la técnica antigua de dicha cultura, le hará arriesgar la vida en un viaje místico por la isla.
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