Went Up The Hill
Big Girls Don’t Cry
written and directed by Paloma Schneideman
Small town NZ, one sweltering summer. 13 year-old Sid Bookman starts to hang out with a ‘more experienced’ crowd, and with this, grows aware of her burgeoning sexuality. As New Year approaches, Sid is pushed to her limits in order to find acceptance, as she stumbles towards adulthood.
The Demolition of the Century
written by Duncan Sarkies, directed by Robert Sarkies
A story about a father desperately looking for his son…and a son doing anything he can to avoid the father who abandoned him 35 years ago.
The Ark.
High concept drama series by Robert Sarkies
In development in partnership with SKY TV NZ and NZ on Air.
As the deadline approaches for New Zealand to close its borders to become an Ark for humanity, desperate families fight to be let in, while others play god with their future.
Out of the Deadwater I Fafo O le Vaipe
Based on “Out of the Vaipe - The Deadwater” by Albert Wendt
Written and directed by Abi King Jones
A gifted, but reticent young Samoan must succeed within the colonising New Zealand education system and defy the expectations of his family to realise his destiny as the first great Pasifika writer.