Auckland July 19th – August 5th
Wellington July 27th – August 12
See here for details of what’s on offer, such as Joss Wheadon’s The Cabin in Woods.
A science fiction film called Iron Sky which is based on the novel by Charles Stross, is coming to New Zealand.
You can find more information about the film at www.ironsky.net
For more information about screening times in New Zealand, contact:
Hoyts Distribution NZ Ltd
c/o Hoyts Sylvia Park,
286 Mt Wellington Highway
P.O Box 132011,
Sylvia Park,
Auckland 1644
Ph: 09 573 9068
Fax: 09 573 9070
“The Captains” a documentary by William Shatner is being screened at The Documentary Edge Film Festival held in Auckland and Wellington.
Auckland – Saturday 28 April at 9pm, Event Centre Newmarket
Wellington – Saturday 19 May at 9pm, Angelika at Reading Cinemas Courtenay
There are Student Concessions of $12* and if there is a Group of 30 plus the Festival Organizers will look at a Group Discount. We would ask if you plan on sending a Group to contact us for more information. (*Student must present a Current Student ID Card).
Most of the Documentaries have a Trailer to whet the Appetite!!
The festival shows many documentaries from New Zealand and around the world.
Just a reminder that the DVD and Blu-ray of The Thing was released in New Zealand on March 7th. SFFANZ have three copies of the DVD to give away. To go into a draw to win a copy please email enquiries@sffanz.sf.org.nz with the answer to these questions:
1. What is the title of the story on which the movie is based?
2. Who wrote the story?
All correct answers will go into a draw to win a DVD. The draw will be held on Saturday 10th March
The Thing is a prelude to John Carpenter’s classic 1982 film of the same name about a group of scientists in the Antarctic who are confronted by a shape shifting alien that assumes the appearance of the people it kills.
Palaeontologist Kate Lloyd (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) joins a Norwegian scientific team in Antarctica that has discovered an extraterrestrial ship buried in the ice, and an organism that seems to have died in the crash. When an experiment frees the alien, a shape-shifting creature with the ability to turn itself into a perfect replica of any living being, Kate must join the crew’s pilot, Carter (Joel Edgerton), to keep it from killing them off one at a time. Paranoia soon spreads like an epidemic as they’re infected, one by one, and a thrilling race for survival begins?
The DVD and Blu-ray will be released in New Zealand on March 7th. SFFANZ have three copies of the DVD to give away. To go into a draw to win a copy please email enquiries@sffanz.sf.org.nz with the answer to these questions:
1. What is the title of the story on which the movie is based?
2. Who wrote the story?
All correct answers will go into a draw to win a DVD. The draw will be held on Saturday 10th March
Several interesting SF films are being shown at this year’s film festival.
In brief, there is a showing of the Cannes favourite Melancholia, the 1927 classic Metropolis, Another Earth, Spaceship Yamato (selling fast!) and Gantz Parts I & II. For more details on these, download this pdf file.
These films might not be showing at all centres, so please check the film festival website for a detailed schedule.
The four successful Escalator low budget feature film teams greenlit for production were announced last night by the New Zealand Film Commission here. Each team has been offered production finance of up to NZ$250,000.
The four greenlit films are:
Existence
Juliet Bergh, Writer/Director; Jessica Charlton, Writer; Mhairead Connor, Producer; Melissa Dodd, Producer
Existence is a salvage punk Western set in a post-apocalyptic future. Trapped by her circumstances behind an enclosing fence, Freya dreams of escape and pursues a mysterious outsider who can free her. She destroys her world to discover that the reality of her existence was not what she imagined.
House Bound
Gerard Johnstone, Writer/Director; Luke Sharpe, Producer
When serial offender Kylie Baxter is placed on home detention, she is forced to come to terms with her dithering parents, her unsociable attitudes and a tormented soul that lives within the walls.
I Survived a Zombie Holocaust
Guy Pigden, Writer/Director; Harvey Neville, Writer; Zoe Hobson, Producer
Wesley, a young runner on a zombie film set, has the first day from hell when real zombies overrun the film set… Who are the real zombies and who are the extras? Decapitate with care!
Timeslow
Sally Tran, Writer/Director; Omar Crawford, Writer; Owen Hughes, Producer
Henry is forced to re-evaluate his entire life when he discovers the secret to slowing down time and is propelled into a shifting world of intrigue and danger.
