Sneak Previews Announced

❤️ SNEAK PREVIEWS ARE BACK

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HAVE YOU GOT YOUR TICKET?

BSS attendees will hear from the directors of seven soon-to-be-released New Zealand films, and watch a sneak preview.

GRAFTED

A bright but socially awkward exchange student takes her craving for popularity to horrifying heights.

Writers Mia Maramara, Lee Murray, Hweiling Ow
Director Sasha Rainbow (Pictured)

Producer Leela Menon, Murray Francis
EP Fraser Brown

A MISTAKE

In the midst of a new scheme to publicly report surgeons’ performance, a gifted surgeon’s life is thrown into disarray as her colleagues begin to close ranks, and even her partner who is a nurse at the hospital turns her back on her.

Writers Christine Jeffs, Carl Shuker
Director Christine Jeffs
Producers Christine Jeffs, Matthew Metcalfe

TINA

In the wake of the Christchurch earthquake, sassy Samoan mother Mareta mentors her newly formed children’s choir to The Big Sing final.

Writer/ Director Miki Magasiva
Producers Mario Gaoa, Dan Higgins, Miki Magasiva

KA WHAWHAI TONU

Set in New Zealand in 1864, follows the story of a crucial conflict of the nation’s first land warfare, fought between Maori and colonial soldiers against insurmountable odds.

Writer Tim Worrall
Director Mike Jonathan
Producers Piripi Curtis, Toby Parkinson

BOOKWORM

11 year old Mildred’s world is turned upside-down when her estranged father, the washed-up magician Strawn Wise comes to look after her and agrees to take her camping to find a mythological beast known as the Canterbury Panther.

Director Ant Timpson
Writers Ant Timpson, Toby Harvard
Producers Emma Slade, Roxi Bull, Victoria Dabbs, Mette-Marie Kongsved, Laura Tunstall

Starring Elijah Wood, Nell Fisher, Michael Smiley, Vanessa Stacey, Morgana O’Reilly, Millen Baird, Theo Shakes.

THE MOON IS UPSIDE DOWN

Three women – a duped mail-order bride, a numbed anaesthetist determined to have a romantic weekend, and an empty-nester on an unexpected mission of mercy – each venture through unfamiliar landscapes and the contours of the human heart.

Writer/Director Loren Taylor
Producers Georgina Conder, Philippa Campbell

Pictured: Victoria Haralabidou – Photo Credit Rebecca McMillan