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Michael Bennett's Cow was invited to the 2002 Cannes Film Festival. The award-winning no-dialogue short film involves two men and a cow, lost at sea. Bennett followed it with Māori rite-of-passage tale Kerosene Creek. He has also written the feature Jubilee, and directed episodes of Outrageous Fortune and mock-doco The Pretender. His debut feature, multi-character tale Matariki won Kiwi release in November 2010.
I hope I’m still making short films when I’m 80.
– Michael Bennett
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2011 |
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2011 |
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2010 |
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2010 |
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Tamariki Ora: A New Beginning |
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2010 |
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2005 |
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2005 - 2010 |
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Taonga |
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2005 |
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Taonga: Til Death Do Us Part |
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2005 |
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The Lost Children |
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2005 |
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The Pretender |
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2005 - 2008 |
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2004 |
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2004 |
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2004 |
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2002 |
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2001 |
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2001 - 2005 |
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2001 - 2003 |
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2000 |
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2000 |
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2000 - 2005 |
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2011 International Festival of Independent Film (Belgium)
Best Director: for Matariki
2010 Qantas Film and Television Awards
Nominated for Best Script - Drama/Comedy Programme: for Kaitangata Twitch
2007 Air New Zealand Screen Awards
Nomianted for Best Director, Drama/Comedy Programme: for Outrageous Fortune, series 2, episode 7
2006 Qantas Television Awards
Nominated for Best Director - Non-Factual: for Taonga
2001 Nokia New Zealand Film Awards
Best Screenplay - Short Film: for Cow
1995 New Zealand Film and Television Awards
Nominated for Best Script, Drama/Comedy - Television (shared with Dave Armstrong, Warren Friend, Kerry Jimson, Donna Malane and Danny Mulheron): for Skitz