It's been selected
at every Webfest going - from Sicily and Berlin, to Montreal and Los
Angeles. Last year it won the coveted Web-series World Cup. It's called
High Road, it's made on Piha Beach, and it's just launched Series 3. It may
be the biggest thing you've probably never heard of. Simon Morris talks
with High Road writer-director Justin Harwood, and star Mark Mitchinson.
Nov 20, 2016 02:50 pm
Two German
children caught up in their country's false dreams and corrupt ideology
during the Second World War, are at the heart of The Wish Child, a new
novel from Ngāruawāhia based Catherine Chidgey. Her first novel In a
Fishbone Church came out in 1998, quickly followed by Golden Deeds and The
Transformation published in 2003. During this time she went to Menton in
southern France as the Katherine Mansfield Fellow, and won the inaugural
Prize in Modern Letters. Catherine also spent time in Berlin where she
became interested in the war years and the collapse of Germany's hope for a
glorious future. In The Wish Child Sieglinde lives a life of privilege in
middle-class Berlin while Erich is brought up in rural Leipzig.
Nov 20, 2016 02:30 pm
Wellingtonians can
find some magical distraction at BATS this week, with the capital's only
Magic Club's annual end-of-year show. Wellington Magic Club President
Jeremy Rolston, and double act partner, comic magician Kade Nightingale
(with able assistant Mel Phipps standing by) demonstrate their own blend of
comedy magic for the radio.
Nov 20, 2016 02:25 pm
Following a brutal
experience with customs at Los Angeles Airport - forced to give up his
phone, laptop and passwords, Auckland artist Ken Griffen is questioning
digital security in a new exhibition called Grey Area. Ken tells Lynn how
he uses painting, sculpture, installation and sound in his exhibition
depicting the nameless and faceless identities watching and tracking us
online.
Nov 20, 2016 01:50 pm
Auckland based
husband and wife film-makers Chris Pryor and Miriam Smith are shifting to
New York for as long as the $80,000 they've just been awarded lasts them.
Chris and Miriam have just won this year's Art's Foundation's Harriet
Friedlander New York Residency, on the strength of their
critically-acclaimed documentary features The Ground We Won, and How Far is
Heaven, about the sisters of Compassion in New Zealand's Jerusalem. They're
celebrating their Residency by making their multi award-winning How Far is
Heaven free to view.
Nov 20, 2016 01:35 pm
The Pike River
mining disaster is still very raw with families fighting to retrieve the
bodies of the 29 men killed in the explosion. Yesterday was the 6th
anniversary. This very public tragedy has remained in the news ever since,
including the past week as families continue to fight moves to seal off the
mine. Docu-drama Pike River goes to air on Prime tomorrow. Lynn Freeman
spoke to the producer Philly de Lacey, and actor Adam Gardiner.
Nov 20, 2016 12:50 pm
One of the
capital's oldest cinemas is being turned into a hotel. The Paramount is one
of the main International Film Festival venues every year - it took in
17,500 admissions in two weeks. Leading the charge against this is Festival
director Bill Gosden and Lindsay Shelton from Wellington Scoop.
Nov 20, 2016 12:40 pm
From Vancouver,
New Zealand poet and playwright David Geary reads his poem "Rūaumoko -
The Terrarist That Will Kill You".
Nov 20, 2016 12:37 pm
The search is on for information about a
production the late composer and ethno-musicologist Jack Body produced back
in 2006. He invited a number of composers to interpret an early Renaissance
work called Passio, which is being remounted for next year's Auckland Arts
Festival. But with Jack's death, there are some question marks over
elements of his ambitious production. Director Carla van Zon was at the
original production in Wellington and remembers it vividly. She wants to
hear from others involved in the show or who were in the audience, so they
can make the 2017 production as accurate as possible. Lynn speaks to Carla
and Dame Gillian Whitehead, one of the composers Jack invited to work on
Passio.
Nov 20, 2016 12:15 pm
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