Make My Movie
NZFC / NZ On Air / nzherald.co.nz present... the MAKE MY MOVIE project. Our proud history of profound, progressive & potty thinking: Splittng the Atom / Women Getting the Vote / the Zorb and now we have another world first: the MAKE MY MOVIE project
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Make My Movie winner revealed
A romantic-comedy about a creepy stalker trying to meet girls by going through their rubbish has taken out the Make My Movie competition.
How to Meet Girls From a Distance, created by a Wellington team of budding film-makers, will now be filmed and turned into a movie, to premiere later this year.
That's thanks to Make My Movie, a new initiative from the New Zealand Herald, the New Zealand Film Commission and NZ On Air, that sees novice film-makers get the chance to turn their film dreams into a reality.
With the tagline, "Get to know her, then meet her", How to Meet Girlswas one of two finalists, beating out the sci-fi spoof This Papier Mache Boulder is Actually Really Heavy from an Auckland team in today's winner's announcement.
The "peeping Tom rom-com" film follows Toby, a 30-something guy who stalks future partners, gathering as much information about them as...
And the winner of Make My Movie for 2012 is…
Winner announced!
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How To Meet Girls From A Distance
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The Finalists
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Blue Vein
A former porn star turns up in a waning small town famous for it’s blue cheese.
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Taxi Tapes
A taxi driver with a dark past becomes entangled in a murder mystery when he discovers his cab is haunted.
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Downhill
A weekend’s mountain biking adventure, turns into a battle against the elements and an ancient Māori curse, when four girls get stuck in the wild. It’s all downhill from here...
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The Helmet
Plug in. Time Travel. Rob a bank.
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Never Forget
Two slackers kidnap an Arab-American university professor, after they are convinced by a late-teens Lolita that he has a hidden history with a terrorist organisation. But she too has a dark past that draws them into a lethal game of cat-and-mouse.
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This Papier Maché Boulder is Actually Really Heavy
Two friends find themselves teleported into the real world of a low budget sci fi movie.
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How To Meet Girls From A Distance
Get to know her, then meet her.
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Foley
What does fear sound like?
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Kill By Mouth
A maimed hypnotist must fight a psychotronic battle from traction to stop a twisted doctor’s chemical murder of his patients.
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The Bach
A domineering cop struggles for control when two pig hunters and a storm shatter his sacred family retreat.
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Sex Priest
A touchy feely film.
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Number 8 Wire
A rescue team searching for a missing tramper find themselves hunted by a deranged maniac who is an expert survivalist, trapper and has a penchant for DIY-instruments-of-death.