Documentary
Soldiers Without Guns: how peace in Bougainville was helped by waiata and haka
Soldiers Without Guns is a documentary about how the NZ Defence Force helped bring peace to Bougainville at the end of a bloody decade long civil war, armed with guitars, waiata, and wahine. Video, Audio
Three Minutes Max: Amanda Miller
Three Minutes Max, short & sharp opinions from commentators around New Zealand. Here's Amanda Miller, talking about her feature length film documentary on social justice advocate Celia Lashlie. Audio
Imaginary Advice: blending fact and fiction
Ross Sutherland's a writer, poet and actor from Edinburgh who also makes a podcast called 'Imaginary Advice'. He does it all himself and calls the podcast the most important thing he makes, and a… Audio
Fundraiser for Fyre Festival workers
Two documentaries have been released about 2017's disastrous Fyre Festival. A GoFundMe page has been set up to help one of the local Bahamian workers who were left out of pocket after the event. Audio
Logan Williams - Taking the fight to Didymo is What Logan Did
Twenty-two-year-old Logan Williams (Ngai Tahu) is an inventor, entrepreneur, and innovator, and the chief executive and founder of Biome Innovation Ltd. Growing up in Timaru, he saw firsthand the… Audio
Hepi Mita: piecing together Merata Mita's life
Merata Mita was a pioneering Maori filmmaker and activist who was a champion of women in indigenous film. Her son Hepi Mita is an archivist, whose father is filmmaker Geoff Murphy. Hepi has created a… Audio
Bisbee '17 & a town haunted by a history
Seven miles from the US-Mexico border, Bisbee in Arizona is a once booming mining town that is haunted by a history it would rather forget. In 1917, nearly two-thousand immigrant miners, on strike for… Audio
Lord Fusitu'a - On the 'Leitis in Waiting' of Tonga
The plight of Tonga's LGBT community is under the spotlight with the released of a new documentary Leitis in Waiting. The film follows the life of transgender Tongan Joey / Joleen Mataele, who, along… Audio
Håvard Bustnes - Golden Dawn Girls
Director Håvard Bustnes is a award-winning director and producer. He holds a degree in directing for television from the College of Film and TV at Lillehammer, Norway. His films have been selected to… Audio
The farmer and the filmmaker
Converting to organics has been a rewarding challenge for filmmaker and farmer Gaylene Barnes and her brother Andrew. They grow vegetables commercially on the family farm at Highbank in Canterbury… Audio, Gallery
High hopes for tree kangaroo conservation in PNG
There are high hopes for tree kangaroo conservation in Papua New Guinea following the screening of a film documenting work being done to save them in the Torricelli Mountains. Audio
Viewing with Paul Casserly
TV and Film writer Paul Casserly has been watching new movie Professor Marston and The Wonder Woman: the story of the polyamorous relationship of the Wonder Woman creator, his wife and his mistress… Audio
Tom Scott - Seriously Funny
Drawn Out: A seriously funny memoir is Tom Scott's account of his life so far. From his hard-knock childhood, his days on student newspapers, making friends and enemies in the corridors of power and… Audio
Radio Dunedin still going strong
Documentary Director Grant Findlay joins John Campbell in the studio to talk about his documentary about Radio Dunedin, and the story of the volunteer announcers who launched the station 95 years ago.
…The sound of Donna Dean’s guitar
Tui award winning singer/songwriter Donna Dean is in the spotlight for “The Sound of Her Guitar”, a documentary following her journey from state houses in Auckland’s Glenn Innes to Texas clubs… Audio
Corey Mosen - Ajax the Kea Conservation Dog
Corey Mosen has trained his dog, Ajax, to sniff out kea nests in remote parts of the South Island where the endangered bird can be found. Mosen then places cameras in and around the nests to monitor… Audio
Jennifer Brea: 'ME is not about fatigue or tiredness'
Jennifer Brea was pursuing her PhD at Harvard when she fell ill with a fever which turned into years of illness. In the documentary Unrest, she tells the story of discovering and seeking treatment for… Video, Audio
Oscar Kightley: 'The Polynesian-Melanesian divide is ridiculous'
In the short documentary, Tama Uli, actor and writer Oscar Kightley talks about his Solomon Island ancestry and the experience of those who came to Samoa against their will over 100 years ago. Audio
The little known story of Tahitian navigator, Tupaia
Director and Producer, Lala Rolls talks to Kathryn Ryan about her three part documentary series, Tupaia's Endeavour which tells the story of the Tahitian navigator, Tupaia - and how his skills and… Audio, Gallery
An intimate insight into gay history
Imagine hunting down all the people you have shared an “intimate” moment with, asking him to reflect on their experiences with you and then filming it. New Zealand documentary film maker Paul Oremland… Audio