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Costa Botes has delivered arguably the finest film of his 30-year directorial career with Angie, an intimate epic of vast emotional and psychological insight. Led into the dark subject matter then back to the hopeful light by his frank and fearless muse, abuse survivor Angie Meiklejohn, the veteran filmmaker has crafted a deeply empathetic narrative that spans a generation of one family’s dysfunction, mental health suffering and sexual and emotional torment.

Immediately earning a place alongside such similarly-themed works as Andrew Jarecki’s Capturing the Friedmans (2003) and Rosie Jones’ The Family (2016), Botes’ incisive study of a family unit imploding focuses on the journey of Meiklejohn from her disrupted childhood and wayward teen years through a truly shocking rite of passage into adulthood. With siblings Bonnie, Renee and Carl weighing in with their own stark memories of family discord and early-life hardship, Botes captures how a group of related lost souls could fall for the false hope promised by cultist Bert Potter and his Centrepoint alternative lifestyle movement.

NB: This Product is not available outside NZ at this time.

View Trailer:  https://vimeo.com/265127940

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When blues loving teenager Bill Lake moved from Australia to New Zealand in 1968 to escape the Vietnam War draft, he took with him a box full of priceless old blues records and a harmonica. He formed a band and named it the Windy City Strugglers. Over several decades they would become New Zealand's greatest unknown band.

"One of the most intriguing and original bands I've heard in ages. For me, it's deep blues from way down under, as if the Mississippi river had gouged its way through the centre of the earth and come home in ... New Zealand, of all places"    ELLIOT MURPHY

"A Wellington cultural institution for longer than the Film Festival, The Windy City Strugglers finally get their close-up in Costa Botes’ funny, affectionate music documentary. First appearing in 1968, when The Stones were the world’s most famous blues band, The Strugglers were founded by Australian draft-dodger Bill Lake, and emulated the gentler blues of Memphis jug bands. Lake’s flatmate and friend Rick Bryant would soon join the band. As other groups rose and fell around him, Bryant would always come back to The Strugglers. Covering songs they loved, they eventually evolved into first-rate songwriters themselves. Botes talks to Strugglers past and present, draws colourful anecdotage from such reliable witnesses as Simon Morris, Graham Brazier and Midge Marsden – and whips in a few music industry types to reveal the limitations of the commercial world. The saga Botes traces here is such a distinctively Kiwi one, with a shy guy at the heart of it. Stoically self-effacing offstage, Lake gently asserts the value of changing only enough to stay true to the stuff you love."

BILL GOSDEN, NZ International Film Festival

Duration 85 Minutes

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Originally made for NZ television in 1988, this one hour documentary is now something of a time capsule or historical piece. It's also a record of a peerless performance by one of this country's greatest poets.

New Zealand's Cook Strait has been an influence on the lifestyle and work of poet, entertainer, and raconteur Sam Hunt since he first settled in the area. In Catching the Tide Hunt takes us on a journey through one of the world's mystical stretches of water. We see historic and spectacular footage of the epic whaling adventures on the Tory Channel, and meet a series of extraordinary people who inhabit, and who are shaped by, the Cook Strait.

N.B This film was shot on 16mm film in 1988. It is presented in its original aspect, full frame 4x3, optimised for viewing on a modern wide screen TV. The DVD has been prepared from the best available master video but picture quality is not optimal.

Documentary

Duration: 48 minutes

PAL, REGION FREE

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"This mockumentary about a non-existent New Zealand film pioneer and inventor features fake interviews and recreated archive footage that are so effective, many viewers were stunned to learn it wasn't real." "100%" Rotten Tomatoes.com

"Meet Colin McKenzie. This hitherto unknown New Zealand filmmaker is … (or was)a pioneer of the cinema whose epic vision and inventiveness compel total revision of the history books. Colin McKenzie is a genius of cinema worthy to stand alongside the Lumiere brothers, D. W. Griffith and Chaplin.
Worthy, that is, had Colin McKenzie ever existed.
Colin McKenzie and his remarkable films are, in fact, the subjects of a delightful spoof from New Zealand made by Peter Jackson and Costa Botes.
''Forgotten Silver'' is a splendid tall tale. Like a combination of Woody Allen's ''Zelig'' and Rob Reiner's ''This Is Spinal Tap,'' this rich comedy manages simultaneously to position its hero in the path of great events while sending up its subject, film history, with informed skill, great affection and mischievous glee."
Lawrence Van Gelder, NY Times

Genre: Mockumentary

Duration: 54 Minutes

Extras: 'Making Of' Short Doco, plus Deleted Scenes

PAL, Region Free

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A film about wild life, and one wild life.

For the past 40 years, in a remote and harshly beautiful corner of Northern Canada, Brian Ladoon has devoted himself to preserving and breeding an endangered species: Qimmiq - Canada's indigenous Inuit Sled Dog.

A wilderness lover's delight, this intimate, gorgeously rendered documentary intelligently surveys Ladoon's quixotic mission, the numerous obstacles he faces, and the uneasy co-existenence of man, animals, and nature.   ALISSA SIMON, VARIETY

Duration 97 minutes Plus Bonus Featurettes & Deleted Scenes

NTSC - America/Asia 

Region Free

Trailer   https://videos.files.wordpress.com/GUPGReBI/trailer-v3-copy-h-264-for-apple-tv_dvd.mp4

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Type: DVD
Price: 35.00

A film about wild life, and one wild life.

"For the past 40 years, in a remote and harshly beautiful corner of Northern Canada, Brian Ladoon has devoted himself to preserving and breeding an endangered species: Qimmiq - Canada's indigenous Inuit Sled Dog.

A wilderness lover's delight, this intimate, gorgeously rendered documentary intelligently surveys Ladoon's quixotic mission, the numerous obstacles he faces, and the uneasy co-existenence of man, animals, and nature."     ALISSA SIMON, VARIETY

Duration: 97 minutes Plus Bonus Content

PAL (UK, Europe, Australia & New Zealand)

Region Free

Trailer  https://videos.files.wordpress.com/GUPGReBI/trailer-v3-copy-h-264-for-apple-tv_dvd.mp4

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