Pete Smith

When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited daughter to the wilderness of nineteenth-century New Zealand, she finds herself locked in a battle of wills with both her controlling husband and a rugged frontiersman to whom she develops a forbidden attraction.

Dir. Jane Campion · With Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Sam Neill

In a violent relationship, it takes a mother’s strength to save herself and her children from the man she loved. Once Were Warriors is a violent love story set against a contemporary urban backdrop.

Dir. Lee Tamahori · With Rena Owen, Temuera Morrison, Mamaengaroa Kerr-Bell

After a top-secret experiment misfires, a scientist may be the only man left alive in the world.

Dir. Geoff Murphy · With Bruno Lawrence, Alison Routledge, Anzac Wallace