Martyn Sanderson Movies

  • 1987
    Poor Man's Orange

    Poor Man's Orange

    Poor Man's Orange

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    Like its predecessor The Harp In The South, Poor Man's Orange was also adapted for Australian television by the Ten Network in 1987. It continues the...

    Poor Man's Orange
  • 1995
    Savage Play

    Savage Play

    Savage Play

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    During a rugby tour of Britain and Ireland in 1888, a young New Zealander searches for his father who he has never met. While there he falls in love...

    Savage Play
  • 1979
    Keskidee Aroha

    Keskidee Aroha

    Keskidee Aroha

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    Keskidee, a small Jamaican bird resilient in the face of hardship, is also the name of a self-help black arts centre in London, and the theatre group...

    Keskidee Aroha
  • 1990
    Flying Fox in a Freedom Tree

    Flying Fox in a Freedom Tree

    Flying Fox in a Freedom Tree

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    Pepe is the son of a successful Samoan businessman, who rejects his father's world and his Christianity. Although he becomes rebellious,...

    Flying Fox in a Freedom Tree
  • 1977
    Autumn Fires

    Autumn Fires

    Autumn Fires

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    Actor Martyn Sanderson returns in 1977 to the Hokianga of his youth and visits his elderly and romantic aunt, Olive Bracey. Her reminiscences of...

    Autumn Fires
  • 2001
    Cow

    Cow

    Cow

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    Two old men with Confucian beards are adrift in the ocean, a placid Friesian cow in tow. A surreal study on how quickly a minor event can evolve into...

    Cow
  • 1987
    The Harp in the South

    The Harp in the South

    The Harp in the South

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    We first meet The Darcys, a poor, working class family of tough Irish stock through whose eyes we hear their story. A story that centres on the...

    The Harp in the South
  • 1980
    Squeeze

    Squeeze

    Squeeze

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    Richard Turner made Squeeze to break the "conspiracy of silence" about homosexuality. A pioneering early portrait of Auckland's LGBT scene, Squeeze...

    Squeeze
  • 2009
    Barry Barclay: The Camera on the Shore

    Barry Barclay: The Camera on the Shore

    Barry Barclay: The Camera on the Shore

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    Barry Barclay was a New Zealand/Aotearoa director of documentaries and feature films. He is regarded as one of the world's first, and very...

    Barry Barclay: The Camera on the Shore
  • 1977
    Wild Man

    Wild Man

    Wild Man

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    The story of two itinerant con men, the Wild Man and the Colonel, who operate on the West Coast gold mining towns of the New Zealand South Island...

    Wild Man