Film Festival 2014

British Director Mike Leigh is an auteur of modern cinema. His latest movie, Mr. Turner, is out to rave reviews and has won international awards. It's a look at the life of British painter J. M. W… Audio

Twenty-five years on, Weta Digital is more than holding its own in a hugely competitive and fast-moving industry. As Weta celebrates its 25th anniversary, Lynn Freeman met long-serving Visual Effects… Audio

Australian choreographer John "Cha Cha" O'Connell has a huge body of work in film and theatre, including the 1992 break-through hit Strictly Ballroom; Moulin Rouge, Shall We Dance? and The Great… Audio

Teacher of film studies at Seattle University, and President Emeritus of the San Francisco Silent Film Festival, who is visiting Wellington to present a talk, Wang Renmei and Shanghai Cinema of the… Audio

Films about the struggle for independence and survival after decades of exposure to nuclear testing have been the big winners at the Pacific Documentary Film Festival in French Polynesia. Audio

French Film Festival French Ambassador to New Zealand and French Film Festival Director preview this year's offerings. Audio

That clip is from the New Zealand Movie 'Three Mile Limit ' which has won the best international film award at the Washington DC film festival. It recounts the creation of Radio Hauraki, a pirate… Audio

An American film maker is hoping his documentary will lay bare the extent of United States nuclear testing in the Marshall Islands. Audio

Blue Bach productions director and producer Libby Hakaraia talks about the Inaugural Maoriland Film Festival set to held in Otaki from March 26th - March 30th. Audio

Star of Going Away at the Alliance Française French Film Festival. Audio

The journey of the American Samoan soccer team has been featured in a new film. Audio

Director of the Reel Brazil Film Festival taking place around NZ this month. Audio

American film producer and director best known for his 1994 documentary Hoop Dreams, who is bringing his new film, Life Itself, to the 2014 Documentary Edge Festival Audio

Documentary-maker, model, performer, and fat activist Kelli Jean Drinkwater discusses her new documentary, Aquaporko that tells the story of a fat femme synchronised swimming troupe. Kelli Jean is a… Audio

Connie Radar is going to Comic-Con. The cult comic book heroine has her own film, called Over The Moon, which has been selected for showing at the enormous Comic-Con International Film Independent… Audio

The director of Papua New Guinea's fifth annual Human Rights Film Festival hopes the event will boost support for local filmmakers. Audio

Stefano's Team is a documentary about a football mad Italian migrant, Stefano Virgili, who's brought his favourite game to rural Northland's Kaeo and through this has had a profound impact on the… Audio

Twenty five year since the fall of the Berlin Wall the Goethe Institut's German film festival offers 25 films showcasing very different facets of German life, both past and present, across a range of… Audio

Damien Echols was one of the West Memphis Three - three men convicted in 1994 for murdering three boys in the US state of Arkansas. He was released after more than 18 years on death row. Damien Echols… Audio

Aboriginal actor, playwright and screenwriter Tony Briggs wrote the acclaimed play and film The Sapphires, based on the life of his mother and aunt. It tells the story of a singing group of four Koori… Audio

New Zealand film producer talks about her current project 'The Patriarch' directed by Lee Tamahori. Audio

Alliance Française French Film Festival director Sarah Reese is currently visiting the Toronto Film Festival, scouting some new work for the New Zealand event. She tells Eva about what she's seen. Audio

Jon Tolansky looks at the making of the British film which features music by New Zealand composer Hollie Fullbrook. Audio

New Zealand film producer, who is using equity crowdfunding to complete the budget for her latest project, The Patriach, with Lee Tamahori and Temuera Morrison. Audio

Alexander Bisley reports in from the Toronto Film Festival to tell us how New Zealand's films are faring in this hugely competitive and potentially lucrative event for filmmakers. Audio

Director of the Italian Film Festival previews this year's event. Audio

A documentary about life aboard the largest civilian hospital ship in the world, is about to hit our shores. It's called 'The Surgery Ship' and it documents the life-changing experiences of patients… Audio

Sarah McMullan reviews some of this weeks new movies, including the new Ben Affleck thriller, Gone Girl as well as Dracula Untold and the German drama, Beloved Sisters. Audio

David Strong is a former New Zealand soldier and United Nations peacekeeper who left the military 10 years ago to pursue a career in the film industry, and whose latest short film has been selected… Audio

Sir Richard Taylor on 20 years of Weta Workshop wizardry, lateral thinking, Thunderbirds, and how CGI hasn't put model making out of business. Audio

Graphic novelist Tim Gibson is part of an ambitious first-time collaboration involving artists from New Zealand and Taiwan. Moth City's main point of difference, is mainly the digital storytelling… Audio

In an archival recording from 1973, Ramai Hayward (1916 - 2014) talks about her passion for film production during the 1940's with host Selwyn Murupaenga.

Archival audio in this programme was… Audio

Canadian award-winning film director and screenwriter, David Cronenberg's body of film work has often portrayed controversial and shocking subject matter, with movies including: Dead Ringers, The Fly… Audio