Newly Digitised Films on the Big Screen

Newly Digitised Films on the Big Screen

For the first time, newly digitised versions of New Zealand features,The Quiet Earth and The End of the Golden Weather, will be screened in select commercial cinemas across New Zealand.

The season kicks off with special presentations in Auckland and Wellington of Geoff Murphy’s sci-fi classic The Quiet Earth. Shot in 1985, the film stars Bruno Lawrence, Alison Routledge and Peter Smith.

Screenwriter and producer, Sam Pillsbury, will introduce the film at Auckland’s Academy Cinema onThursday March 12th, and director Geoff Murphy will introduce the film at Wellington’s Lighthouse Cuba on Monday March 16th. There will be opportunities for Q & A after both screenings.

Ian Mune’s The End of the Golden Weather screens at The Vic Devonport on March 22nd, and at the Lighthouse Cuba on March 23rd.

Ian Mune will be present at the Auckland screening to introduce the film and for Q & A after the screenings.

In 2013 the New Zealand Film Commission (NZFC) began a curatorial initiative to digitise the films in its library not available in hi-res formats and create a living archive of films for future generations to watch and enjoy. To date twenty-five feature film titles and seventeen shorts have been through digitisation and are available for cinema screenings and on our NZ Film on Demand website. Another fifteen feature films and shorts will have been digitised by the end of 2015.

Tickets for the screenings are on sale now at the Academy Cinema, The Vic Devonport and The Lighthouse Cuba Street. Sessions of these, and other recently digitised New Zealand films, are being scheduled in Christchurch, Dunedin and Hamilton. Cinemas in other locations interested in hosting screenings of their own should contact the NZFC.

The Quiet Earth

Thursday 12th March, Academy Cinemas, 44 Lorne Street, Auckland City

Monday 16th March, Lighthouse Cuba, 29 Wigan Street, Wellington

The End of the Golden Weather

Sunday 22nd March,The Vic, 48-56 Victoria Rd, Devonport, Auckland

Monday 23rdth March, Lighthouse Cuba, 29 Wigan Street, Wellington www.lighthousecuba.co.nz

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