The trailer for this feature film
An excerpt from this feature film
A featurette about the real Aramoana Massacre
A featurette - "Honouring Aramoana"
A featurette about the making of the film
Behind-the-scenes footage from the making of the film
An interview with director Rob Sarkies
An interview with actor Matthew Sunderland
An interview with actor Karl Urban
An interview with actor Paul Glover
An interview with actor Simon Ferry
An interview with actor Tandi Wright
The credits for this feature film
In November 1990 misfit loner David Gray (played by Matthew Sunderland) killed 13 of his neighbours in the seaside town of Aramoana, near Dunedin. His rampage lasted 22 hours before he was gunned down by police. Out of the Blue is a dramatised re-enactment of these traumatic events. Directed by Rob Sarkies and co-written with Graeme Tetley, this gut-wrenching film did respectable box office and was lauded at 2008's Qantas Film and TV Awards, winning most feature categories, including best film and screenplay. Warning: excerpt contains realistic gun violence.
It's a powerful piece of work, made more so by a fierce restraint in its delivery. Its makers have shaped a narrative from the haphazard events of that day — and a little before in scenes showing the solitary and angry Gray approaching breaking point — but without making this run to a conventional thriller timetable.– Russell Baillie, in a five star review of Out of the Blue, The NZ Herald, 5 October 2006
Desert Road Films
Made with funding from the NZ Film Commission, in association with NZ On Air and TV3
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