This book is a celebration of how far the New Zealand film industry has come in the last 30 years of making home-grown movies. This has been a time when film has leapt ahead as an industry and gained recognition from the home audience - and from international audiences too. It is illustrated throughout with posters from around the world for the films we love.

Table of Contents

Contents include: Coming of age of a national cinema -- The roar of the crowd -- The celluloid journey -- What makes New Zealand film distinctive? -- How others have seen us -- Directors' favourites -- Thirty iconic New Zealand films.

Author Biography

Duncan Petrie is Professor of Film at the University of Auckland, and previously worked at the British Film Institute and the University of Exeter. He is the author of several books on cinema, including Shot in New Zealand. Duncan Stuart runs Kudos Organisational Dynamics, a boutique research and analysis firm specialising in research analysis, and previously worked as a television script editor and writer in New Zealand and Australia from 1978 to 1986.