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1988 Taormina Film Festival (Italy)
Bronze Charybdis (Third prize)
1988 Hawaii International Film Festival
East-West Centre Award (Best Film)
1988 New Zealand Listener Film and Television Awards
Best Director: Leon Narbey
Best Cinematographer: Alan Locke
Best Production Design: Jeanelle Aston
Best Musical Score: Jan Preston
Best Editing: David Coulson
Best Contribution to a Soundtrack: Bob Allen, Gethin Creagh & Mike Hopkins
Best Male Performance in a Supporting Role: Peter Hayden
Best Female Performance in a Supporting Role: Heather Bolton
1988 London Film Festival
Official Selection
The Dunedin Collection showcases a city edged by ocean,...
Documentary, comedy, drama, and even some martial arts: ...
Documentary about Cromwell's Chinatown excavation
More Central Otago gold mining
More gold rush history in Cromwell
Another gold rush era tale
A journey to China filmed by Leon Narbey
Another quest for gold
Also directed by Leon Narbey
Documentary featuring NZ Chinese stories
Another gold mining drama
Samoan short shot by Leon Narbey
Director Leon Narbey shot this
Artist Kerry Ann-Lee interprets settler history
Also directed by Leon Narbey
A documentary on Chinese in New Zealand
Another Chinese story in NZ
Features Chinese New Year celebrations
Documentary series featuring Chinese New Year celebrations
Short film about a modern Chinese Kiwi
Also filmed by cameraman Alan Locke
Six Māori teenagers vist China for this doco series
The Otago goldrush in the 1860s attracted the first...
Six Māori teenagers visit China for this doco series
Shot by Leon Narbey
An NZ visit to communist China
Short film about elderly Chinese in modern day Auckland
Short film about modern day Chinese in NZ
Short film about Leon Narbey's art installation
Documentary about growing up Chinese in Auckland
More memorable images of Otago landscapes
Director Leon Narbey also made this experimental short
A Czech who took photos of the gold mining era
Documentary on New Zealand's mining history
Composer Jan Preston features in this pop song
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