Archive for Film

World Buskers Festival Documentary

 A project that started a year ago has now come to an end and like any long term relationship there are mixed feelings; sadness that a project we loved doing has ended and joy that a project we loved doing has ended:) Late in 2011 the…

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Tandem doco – Always Ready: Semper Paratus

A documentary celebrating 150 years of the Christchurch Fire Brigade was released on Saturday at the ChristChurch Cathedral. Tandem Studios won the contract to make the doco to mark this year’s BECA Heritage Week. It’s the second documentary made by Tandem. The first doco was…

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Local muso capitalises on The Lovely Bones

The story dates back five years.. When Christchurch musician Amy Bowie was involved in a songwriting competition for television, she wrote and recorded a song inspired by Alice Sebold’s book, The Lovely Bones. At that time, Amy wasn’t aware Peter Jackson had plans to turn…

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Finally! A film about social networking

It had to happen. Just when you thought vampires would rule the movie screens forever, along comes a film about something just as ubiquitous as vampires – social networking. The Social Network is a comedy-drama directed by David Fincher about the founding of Facebook. The…

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48HRS worth of furious filmmaking

Kineta Knight chats with Logan McMillan (Gorilla Pictures) – Christchurch’s regional winner of the 48HRS Furious-Filmmaking competition with his film Death in the West. Gorilla Team Gorilla also won sexiest short and best cinematography. The 48HRS Grand Final is this Thursday, 9.30pm on C4 Part…

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