Desray Armstrong

Producer, Additional Crew, Production Manager

AMAH is a half-hour primetime cautionary thriller, set in a near future about the pressure on mothers to have-it-all. LEILA, a successful, driven scientist, struggles to balance the demands of motherhood and career.

Amah

Explores the journey of three young people as they seek solace under the watchful gaze of the Taranaki mountain and companionship in the spirit of adventure.

The Mountain

A former child actress seeking enlightenment at a retreat led by a spiritual leader navigates the close but turbulent relationship with her daughter.

Bad Behaviour

Ahi & the Stars

When a solitary teen meets a mysterious stranger their encounter becomes more supernatural as the two loners discover they are not alone.

Earthlings

Anxiety-ridden Millie is on her way from Wellington to New York for an internship at a prestigious architecture firm when a moment of panic causes her to miss her flight.

Millie Lies Low

In 1979, a group of young filmmakers set out to make an adult film in rural Texas, but when their reclusive, elderly hosts catch them in the act, the crew find themselves fighting for their lives.

When a self-destructive teenager is suspended from school and asked to look after his feisty alcoholic grandmother as a punishment, the crazy time they spend together turns his life around.

Juniper

A featurette with producers Catherine Fitzgerald, Desray Armstrong and Mike Minogue on working with first-time feature filmmaker James Ashcroft to realise his vision for the critically acclaimed New Zealand feature film COMING HOME IN THE DARK.

Coming Home in the Dark - Enabling the Dark

A schoolteacher is forced to confront a brutal act from his past when a pair of ruthless drifters take his family and him on a nightmare road trip.

Coming Home in the Dark

A featurette with writer/director James Ashcroft, writer Eli Kent, producers Catherine Fitzgerald, Desray Armstrong and Mike Minogue; cast members Daniel Gillies, Erik Thomson, Miriama McDowell and Matthias Luafutu on the making-of the film.

Coming Home in the Dark: Into the Dark

A pregnant woman returns to her recently-deceased grandparents' old family home to spend time with her estranged mother. What begins as a tenuous reunion slowly turns terrifying.

Reunion

On the day she gets her first menses, Hinekura is initiated into adulthood with ceremony and blessings. She's taken to a wananga where her role within the tribe is revealed to her.

Hinekura

A young Maori girl tries to reconnect with her absent father. A beautiful woman, mysterious and otherworldly, comes for a visit.

Ways to See

Documentary portrait of pioneering filmmaker and mother Merata Mita, detailing how her filmmaking intersected with the lives of her children and indigenous filmmakers globally, and featuring rare archival footage dating back to 1977.

Merata: How Mom Decolonized the Screen

In a post-apocalyptic world where cities ride on wheels and consume each other to survive, two people meet in London and try to stop a conspiracy.

Mortal Engines

In a cold and remote landscape, two strangers struggle to repair their broken pasts.

Stray

A hazy night in Wellington is lit up with the pulsating colors and sounds of party people exploring their youth and freedom.

Bats

After the disappearance of her scientist father, three peculiar beings send Meg, her brother, and her friend to space in order to find him.

A Wrinkle in Time

Sergeant Maaka, and Officers Minogue and O'Leary, are members of the Wellington, New Zealand, police. Their job is to investigate paranormal phenomena.

Wellington Paranormal

First-year acting student Stanley mines his girlfriend's family scandal as material for the end-of-year show at drama school. The result is a moral minefield.

The Rehearsal

Pork Pie tracks the escapades of a trio of accidental outlaws as they travel the length of the New Zealand in a yellow mini, protesting conformity and chasing lost love, with a posse of cops and a media frenzy hot in their pursuit.

Pork Pie

A lighthouse keeper and his wife living off the coast of Western Australia raise a baby they rescue from a drifting rowing boat.

The Light Between Oceans

A national manhunt is ordered for a rebellious kid and his foster uncle who go missing in the wild New Zealand bush.

Hunt for the Wilderpeople

The Watercooler

In the wake of a disaster that wipes out most of civilization, two men and a young woman find themselves in an emotionally charged love triangle as the last known survivors.

Z for Zachariah

A young Scottish man travels across America in pursuit of the woman he loves, attracting the attention of an outlaw who is willing to serve as a guide.

Slow West

Viago, Deacon, and Vladislav are vampires who are struggling with the mundane aspects of modern life, like paying rent, keeping up with the chore wheel, trying to get into nightclubs, and overcoming flatmate conflicts.

What We Do in the Shadows

Two men wake up to find themselves in a vast world of ice.

Snowmen

In 1916, the New Zealand Government secretly shipped 14 of the country's most outspoken conscientious objectors to the Western Front in an attempt to convert, silence, or quite possibly kill them. This is their story.

Field Punishment No1.

Radio Hauraki, New Zealand's pirate radio station, operated in international waters from 1966-70, enduring storms, shipwrecks, financial woes, bureaucratic harassment and personal tragedy. This is the real story of NZ's 'boat that rocked'.

Pirates of the Airwaves

The sensitive, bullied and lonely Adrian (10) is living with his grandmother and sick uncle. He finds a friendship with a new mysterious neighbor Nicole (10).

The Weight of Elephants

On the eve of departing overseas, Ellen makes the fateful decision to gift her boyfriend a new girlfriend.

Ellen Is Leaving

Gritty and suspenseful, this award-winning drama probes the narcotics underworld of New Zealand's largest city and the toll it takes on those caught in its grip.

Harry

Te Whakarauora Tangata

Ebony Society

Rage is the story of star-crossed lovers set against the turbulent 1981 Springbok Tour of New Zealand - a time when a small rugby-playing nation made a stand against the cruel and brutal South African Apartheid regime. Carol a beautiful young Maori Police goes undercover and falls in love with Des a charismatic leader of the student protest movement.

Rage

A dramatic story about a cricketer and his fiancée.

Tangiwai

Mick is a 17-year-old who gets a job at the local meatworks. The place is challenging and his fellow workers don't exactly welcome new blood. It soon becomes clear that his first day won't be about just trying to fit in--his biggest concern will be getting out alive.

Meathead

An Afrikaner veteran of the Boer War has just immigrated to New Zealand and is hired to track a man accused of killing a soldier. While hunting through the countryside he captures his fugitive, only to learn that he's innocent of the crime. When faced with the life-changing decision to turn him in or set him free only, one man will walk away alive.

Tracker

Coming of age crime comedy set in 1930's New Zealand. Adaptation of the Ronald Hugh Morrieson novel.

Predicament

A film memoir based on NZ filmmaker Gaylene Preston's interviews with her father about his World War II experiences.

Home by Christmas

Contestants transform mentally and physically as they compete to lose weight and win a cash prize.

The Biggest Loser

Jess is a solo mother and reluctant parking warden. Tom is a self-obsessed greeting-card salesman with an addiction to competitions who will do anything to win. They are just two of the competitors in a grueling endurance test to win a car: whoever keeps a hand on it the longest wins.

Show of Hands

A young man confronts the reality of death through an experience of life.

Patu Ihu

Celebrity Survivor

9 contestants, 1 mole, 3 weeks and over $100,000 to be won! The nine contestants are given a number of challenges to complete, each worth a certain amount of money. They must follow the guidelines and finish the challenge in order to win.