Last Paradise
Parental guidance recommended for younger viewers 2009 12m Film
- Adventure
- Documentary
- Sport
- NZ History
Forty-five years in the making, this documentary looks at the history of Kiwi adventure sport. Via spectacular — original and archive — footage, it follows the pioneers (AJ Hackett et al) from sheep farm-spawned maverick surf kids to pre-Lonely Planet OEs chasing the buzz; and the innovative toys and pursuits that resulted. From the Hamilton Jet to the bungee, No.8 fencing wire smarts are iterated. The exhilaration of adventure is underpinned by a poignant ecological message — that the places where the paradise chasers could express themselves are now in peril.
Related images

A still from Last Paradise.
Photograph by Rick Jackovich
Kindly supplied by Clive Neeson

Clive Neeson filming in Canada.
Photograph by John Neeson.
Kindly supplied by Clive Neeson.

First snowboarding in Utah, 1970s.
Photograph by Richard Palmer
Supplied by Clive Neeson

A promotional image from Last Paradise.
Kindly supplied by Clive Neeson

Whale and sailor, a still from Last Paradise.
Photograph by Margareta Engstrom
Kindly supplied by Clive Neeson










