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The NZ Film Commission turns 40
A collection celebrating 40 years of the NZ Film...
Winners & Losers: Blues for Miss Laverty
Yvonne Lawley's first lead role
Mr Wrong
Gaylene Preston's first feature
The Call Up
More of actor Vanessa Rare
What Now? - 1991 Christmas Special
Simon Barnett as a kids' TV host
War Stories
Also directed by Gaylene Preston
Loose Enz - Graham's Mum and the Goulden Tour
More of actor Yvonne Lawley
Clash of the Codes - Series One, Episode 10
Presented by Simon Barnett
Out of the Blue
Also written by Graeme Tetley
The Z-Nail Gang
Vanessa Rare also acted in this
Bird
A short film set in a retirement home
Linda's Body
Yvonne Lawley features in this short film
Roof Rattling
Another inter-generational tale
Bread & Roses
Also directed by Gaylene Preston
The Only One You Need
Gaylene Preston also directed this music video
Sunday - Media Women
Gaylene Preston remembers her 1986 film Mr Wrong
Ruby and Rata is a 110-minute riposte to anyone who claims that New Zealand cinema is dour and grim.– Hamish McDouall, in his 2009 book 100 Essential New Zealand Films
No formula can create a film like this. No production values can make it succeed. These delicate, highly personal and fanciful little enterprises must ignite of their own accord, and Ruby and Rata somehow manages to do so.– Reviewer Evan Williams in The Australian, 1992
[Gaylene] Preston and her team have woven a special kind of Kiwi magic in this one. I'd crawl across broken glass to see it again — and again.– Peter Calder in an NZ Herald review, 28 September 1990