Actor and filmmaker Sam Neill weaves portions of his own biography into an insightful, idiosyncratic and liberally illustrated analysis of New Zealand cinema - from its crude beginnings to the full flowering of technical and artistic achievement seen in the breakthrough films of Peter Jackson, Lee Tamahori, and Jane Campion. Made as part of the BFI's Century of Cinema series, it screened at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival to wide acclaim.
In the early 1990s, to celebrate a century of cinema, the British Film Institute launched an ambitious series of documentaries by 18 leading filmmakers, each of whom would be tasked with providing a personal interpretation of the history and ...
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