Film

Podcasts about films are popular all over the world and New Zealand has plenty to choose from. Dan Slevin from Widescreen has been listening in. Audio

The 1980 documentary no broadcaster dared to screen and the police once tried to confiscate is about to be screened publicly for the first time. Audio

Dan Slevin from RNZ's Widescreen on documentaries centered on election campaigns. Audio

A new online film explores how the 'Five Eyes' global spying network is eroding our personal privacy. Its Kiwi director Justin Pemberton joins Checkpoint. Video, Audio

120 years ago New Zealanders got their first glimpse of a new technology that would change how they saw the world - cinema. So what was it like when people first saw silent images moving on a giant… Audio

New documentary Eight Days A Week: The Touring Years gives a glimpse into life on the road with The Beatles between 1964 and 1966, but does it tell us anything we don’t already know?

Feminist blogger Deborah Russell talks about women in film. Who gets paid the most, who gets the roles, who gets to write the scripts and direct and produce the movies? She also tells us how to use… Audio

Auckland Cinema managers and restaurant owners can sleep a little easier after this week. Peter Calder, the highly respected - but often ruthless - movie and food critic for the New Zealand Herald is… Audio

90 years ago American filmmaker Robert Flaherty decided to follow his hugely successful Inuit documentary Nanook of the North with another one set in faraway places - this time in exotic Samoa. Moana… Audio

“An artist is a person who materialises ideas”: that definition comes from New Zealand born artist Christina Conrad. The feminist artist was long before her time in her exposure of convention… Video, Audio

On 6 December 1941 a NZ serviceman named Les Tweedie, stationed in Alexandria, went to see James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan in The Shop Around the Corner. Audio

Seasoned New Zealand journalist and documentary maker, Wayne Brittenden takes us through the history of Kiwis' love affair with the silver screen, at least between 1925 - 1970. Audio, Gallery

Sandra Reid has arguably the best job in the world. She lives in France, attends film festivals throughout Europe, and then decides  which films will show at the New Zealand International Film… Audio

"This film is about my culture when it was interrupted by your culture" - indigenous Australian David Gulpilil reflects on the impact of colonisation on the Northern Territory community he calls home… Audio