Don Selwyn Movies

A drama about a Maori family living in Auckland, New Zealand. Lee Tamahori tells the story of Beth Heke’s strong will to keep her family...

An orphan weds an older man in circa-1900 New Zealand, then finds out he's a miser who spies on her.

Five years have passed and Jake has turned his back on his family. He's still up to his usual tricks in McClutchy's Bar, unaware, as he downs his...

Recluse Smith is drawn into a revolutionary struggle between guerrillas and right-wingers in New Zealand. Implicated in a murder and framed as a...

A modern day take on the classic bard tale - with Silver as a movie producer.

Lucy Lawless stars in this short which predated her rise to fame as Xena Princess Warrior. Sal is in a relationship going nowhere with Mog, a...

Will Bastion returns home from the army after an absence of 20 years to bury his father, the former chief of thee Maori tribe, Ngati Kaipuku. The...

Investigative journalist Alf Winters (Morrison), meets his American girlfriend, Melissa Jones (Eilbacher), at Auckland airport. As they park outside...

Anthropologist Max Scarry mysteriously disappears while doing excavation/research of a lost New Zealand tribe on a remote island. His wife and his...

Rewi Rapana returns to the small country town of Te Mata after his family has left the district. His arrival rekindles old tensions as well as...

A young woman searches for her identity by joining a "free love" hippie commune, against the wishes of her darkly possessive widowed father. The...

A girl named Ana (Jaime Passier-Armstrong) asks about a photo in a family album and gets an awkward brush off from her mum. When the family receives...

A majestic tale of drama, love, mystery and the clashing of cultures in early 1800's New Zealand.

Set in post-war (1949) rural New Zealand, this film traces the efforts of two con men to run a betting scam in a small town (Tainuea) already rife...

A documentary about the threat posed to New Zealand's Kaipara Harbour by rapacious commercial fishing and development.

This remarkable film traces the final impact which both races had on the indigenous Moriori of the Chatham Islands. Moriori were a peaceful people...