Short Films

Reservoir Films Ltd was one of three companies appointed by the NZFC to executive produce six short films between 2006 and 2008.

Completed
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Choice Night

Producer: Vicky Pope
Director: Chris Dudman
Writer: Paul Stanley Ward

Try to have it all - risk losing everything.

Selected - Melbourne, Valladoid, London Film Festivals 2010

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Zero

Producer: Jackie Dennis
Writer/Director: Leo Woodhead

How do you know when to let go? A volatile teenager struggles to detach himself from the influence of his imprisoned father.

Selected - Berlin and London Film Festivals 2010

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Warbrick

Producer: Mina Mattheson
Writer/Directors: Meihana and Pere Durie

One man’s legacy, one nation’s legend.

Winner - Audience Award Wairoa Maori Film Festival 2009
Selected - New Zealand International Film Festival 2009, Montreal 2010.

Screened - To New Zealand’s All Blacks the day before their 33-6 demolition of the Australia in Wellington on September 19, 2009, a performance which marked an extraordinary turn-around in form from what had until then been one of the worst season’s on record.

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Brave Donkey

Producer: Nikki Walker
Director: Gaysorn Thavat
Writer: Gregory King

Selected - New Zealand, Melbourne, Locarno, Brisbane, Barcelona, London International Film Festivals 2009

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The Road Out of Town

Producer: Richard Collins
Writer/Directors: Adam Luxton & Jeremy Dumble

When Joseph’s girlfriend fails to arrive at a planned rendezvous on New Zealand’s remote west coast he suspects the worst. But the filtered memories of their past together reveal the significance of her disappearance.

MIC Homegrown Programme - New Zealand International Film Festival 2008, Hof International Film Festival, Germany, 2009.

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Noise Control

Producer: Huia Lambie
Writer/Director: Phil Simmonds

Having befriended the local children, a rooster pays the price for keeping the neighbors awake at night. This tragic-comedy, told through animation and live action, is based on a true story. The event became national and international news.

Selected - Chicago International Children’s Film Festival 2008, New Zealand International Film Festival 2008

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