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The
Great Game (Afghanistan)
A story of a group of Afghani cricket enthusiasts who endeavour
to establish the game of cricket in a country approximating
the Year Zero.
The backdrop to this "mission" - as Afghan national
cricket captain Allah dad Noori calls it - is enough to dissuade
the most optimistic: a Diaspora of up to ten million refugees
after the Russian invasion of 1979, mujahideen infighting,
the Taliban, US bombing and a country whose infrastructure
is in ruins.
This beautifully shot documentary is set amidst the badlands
and politically cryptic landscape of post-September 11 Afghanistan
and north-west Pakistan and follows a band of intrepid cricket
lovers confronting almost impossible odds in a crusade to
"pick up the bat and put down the gun" and alter
the psychosis of a nation.
Executive producer: Peter Cathro
Producer/writer/research: G Robinson Webby
Director/research: Bryn Evans
Director of photography: Steven Latty
Editors: Peter Roberts, Philip Holt
Tapu
A hugely popular documentary that poses the question whether
tapu is still a potent force in contemporary Aotearoa/New Zealand
or a dry anthropological concept emasculated by the inroads
of christianity and colonialism.
This ground-breaking project penetrates the half-truths that
have pirouetted around tapu ever since Pakeha (Europeans)
first intersected with Maori in the late 18th and early 19th
century.
From phantom war canoes, warriors, tattooed heads, corrupted
tapu concepts directed at women, tapu principles in the modern
world, real estate development on sacred burial grounds, the
use of brass bands to drive out decadent aspects of tapu to
the almost gothic friction between tapu and early missionary
christianity this documentary examines an indigenous and spiritual
legacy redefining itself against a backdrop of corrosive materialism.
Producers and researchers: Bradford Haami & G Robinson
Webby
Director: Peter Cathro
Director of photography: Fred Renata
Writer: G Robinson Webby
Editor: Peter Roberts
Lawyers
This documentary unbuttons the straitjacket of the criminal
law to reveal a time bomb of disenfranchisement, emotion, anxiety
and dysfunctionalism ticking away at the core of the New Zealand
legal system.
In a Byzantine swamp of statute and precedent the masks of
the accused are stripped away as five barristers work the
shadows and half-light to get the best deal for their clients.
A delicate balancing of the scales of justice or a rococo
comic-opera sham?
You be the judge as the erratic heartbeat of Lawyers
takes you on a journey into the corridors, chambers and closets
of the criminal law without beta-blockers.
A location where humanity, capriciousness, intellectual agility
and down-home bad ass attitudes co-mingle in a witty, ironic,
funny and poignant gumbo as tastily piquant as it is mixed-up.
Producer/researcher: G Robinson Webby
Director: Peter Barrett
Camera: Peter Barrett
Writer: G Robinson Webby
Editor: Nick Reid
Original concept: Peter Cathro
Girls
in the Ring
What psychology motivates two savvy, intelligent and spunky
heartland New Zealand women to embark on a mission to fight
at the first Women's World Boxing Championships in Scranton,
USA?
Eschewing conventional notions of femininity Girls in the
Ring explores the impetus, the will and the naked bloody-mindedness
of two fighters carving out their own niche in a sport traditionally
wedded to testosterone.
Exposing the blood, sweat and tears, the nerves, the perspiration-drenched
sparring and training regimes, the existential frisson of
being alone in the ring, the money worries and the uneasy
relationship with coach Cameron Bell this evocatively shot
documentary is a searing incision into two brave hearts and
minds.
The pursuit of the sweet science or the deluded passion of
two women pugilists in a controversial sport where the infliction
of pain is the ultimate objective? You decide.
Producer: Peter Cathro
Director: Bryn Evans
Director of photography: Steve Latty
Editor: Peter Roberts
Young nails is a hip production out
of the USA, Broadcast Productions filmed Greg performing a
technical demonstration.
Video available, please call Ingrid on (64 9) 376 5745
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