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CONTENTS

The Film at a Glance ................................................................................................................................... 2

Synopsis ...................................................................................................................................................... 3

Directors Story ............................................................................................................................................ 4

Meet the Cast ............................................................................................................................................ 6

DAVID WHITE | ACTOR/WRITER/DIRECTOR ..................................................................................... 6

Interview with David White .............................................................................................................. 7

ROBYN MALCOLM | Actress ............................................................................................................. 8

Interview with Robyn Malcolm ......................................................................................................... 9

ALICE MAY CONNOLLY | Actress .................................................................................................... 10

Interview with Alice May Connolly ................................................................................................. 10

RIMA TE WIATA |Actress ................................................................................................................ 11

Interview with Rima Te Wiata ........................................................................................................ 12

Production Team ...................................................................................................................................... 13

Full Credits ................................................................................................................................................ 15

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THE FILM AT A GLANCE

ENGLISH TITLE This Town GENRE Comedy CENSORSHIP RATING TBC RUNNING TIME 01:31:16:04

NZ CINEMA RELEASE 19th March, 2020 NZ DVD RELEASE TBC DIRECTOR David White PRODUCERS Kelly Martin, Aaron Watson; David White KEY CAST ROBYN MALCOLM, RIMA TE WIATA, ALICE MAY CONNELLY, DAVID

WHITE, AARON CORTESI, LOREN TAYLOR

MUSIC Original music by Lukasz Buda, Samuel Scott & Conrad Wedde

CINEMATOGRAPHER Adam Luxton EDITOR Paul Wedel, Francis Glenday, Megan Brooks

PRODUCTION COMPANY South Pacific Pictures, White Balance Pictures and Sabertooth Films

DISTRIBUTION BY Madman NZ WORLD SALES The Film Sales Company FINANCED BY New Zealand Film Commission, Madman LOCATIONS Filmed on location in Hawkes Bay, New Zealand

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SYNOPSIS

ONE-LINER Acquitted of a crime, a young man tries to rebuild his life while an ex-cop turned Petting Zoo Owner, convinced of his murderous tendencies, tries to prove his guilt.

SYNOPSIS This Town follows one man’s attempt to return to normality, and one woman’s utter determination to prevent it. Through the contradictions, intensity and absurdity of their ambitions, an extraordinary comedy emerges.

Five years ago, Sean’s (David White) family was murdered. Charged but acquitted of the crime, he is now the most

infamous person in the small community of This Town – his whole life defined by this single event. Despite everything, Sean’s ready to move on, starting where any millennial would: by stepping into the world of digital dating. Pam (Robyn Malcolm) was the officer in charge of the investigation. Tormented by the murders and how a guilty man walked free, she’s been soured against the justice system. Abandoning the police force, Pam has started a small petting zoo and adventure park, but is unable to move on until justice … and an alpaca or two … have been served.

Now, for the first time since ‘it’ happened, Sean’s world is blossoming. He meets Casey, a young woman whose faith in his innocence lends new force to his struggle for an ordinary life. Together they push at the limits of love after murder. Yet with every step forward, Pam lures us back to the case. She’s hoping for the one clue that will have Sean back in court faster than she can get to the bottom of her home made waterslide.

Charting the sublimely awkward aftermath of small town tragedy, This Town is a touchingly twisted comedy about what it means to reinvent yourself.

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DIRECTOR’S NOTE

I was driving along a back road from Waipawa to Takapau in the depths of Hawkes Bay where my parents have a farm and where I grew up.

I had just been to see an old friend who is now an ex-gang member. I had taken my camera and he happened to be cleaning his toilet and bathroom when I turned up. I set up and started asking him questions about his life, getting out of the gang, the choices he made and the prejudice he felt while trying to get his life back on track. I thought him cleaning a toilet would bring this man into a relatable situation, which would give him some humanity. There was no real reason for the interview other than learning about what he was going though and I thought it might develop into something.

As I drove along the road, the sun set over the mountain range and the beauty of the land etched itself into my mind’s eye. I thought about the judgement my friend stills feels, even after leaving the gang and subsequently the persecution of people that exists, especially in the smallest of rural communities. In that moment the main character of what would become This Town was born. A man (Sean) who had been accused of an inexcusable crime who lived in one of the most beautiful rural parts of the country. Questions in my head started to be asked - What would that be like? What happens several years after you have become one of the most infamous people, not only in your town, but in the whole of NZ (remember international readers you are only 3 steps away from the Prime Minister down here). How do you start to date people? How do you get a job? What are the situations for that person that make comedy gold?

I then started writing; firstly in my friends’ house in Dunedin. Sitting on the floor I came up with the idea that the cop who arrested Sean was so distraught about the fact that he had been let off she had quit the force and started a Petting Zoo while still privately investigating the crime (comedy gold). Then off to Venice where the project that had started when I interviewed a man who was cleaning his toilet got selected from a worldwide call to be developed there (12 teams are selected from the globe).

After 10 days, I came back to NZ and headed off to Whiritoa in the Coromandel where I went and wrote for three weeks. Between swims the jokes flowed; the characters arrived on the page, my main inspiration - my love for the people I grew up with and the place I called home for 18 years of my life.

Soon after the script was complete the most excellent Kelly Martin and Aaron Watson came on board as my fellow producers to get this film made.

Around the time production funding was secured (thanks NZFC and MADMAN) we had to make a decision about where this film should be filmed. It seemed only logical given the movies origins in a bathroom in Hawkes Bay that we need to head back to the Hawkes Bay to create the fictional town now known as Thiston.

Taking the film back to my hometown was something I will forever be thankful to have been able to do. The open arms in which we were embraced was amazing. It was like kangaroo putting her joey back in her pouch. We felt loved, safe and secure. It was like everyone cared about the film. This piece of work was as much theirs as ours. Anything we needed - the community where there. Extras, they arrived with bells on. Drivers to be in the demo derby - all my mates obliged. Metal detectors, signs, wardrobe, props – everything was just a phone call away, and if one person couldn’t find it, they knew someone who could.

DIRECTOR’S NOTE (cont’d)

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Along this path Robyn Malcolm signed on to play Pam, the cop. Rima Te Waiata came on board as the local journalist and then slowly we populated our world with some of New Zealand’s best talent. Well,that was until we worked out who needed to play Sean (for that we just had to get the guy who was going be there every day). Through the writing process it wasn’t a certainty that I would play the main character, but I was writing from my heart and about my hometown. I had been inspired by my upbringing, my friends, my family and all of their extra ordinary abilities to do many things. The script contained, just to name a few - guns, motorbike and tractor driving, a demo derby where Sean is hit a few times (I am in a demo derby team with my brother in law), huge fires, chainsaws and some alpacas. As we started to break down the script and the huge amount of stunts it started to dawn on me / us that possibly I had written a part for someone who happened to me. Whoops. So after some soul searching it was decided that I was the person who should do it. Did I really understand what I was signing up for? No; writing, acting, directing, producing is an amount of work that is not advisable for anyone.

However, with the budget constraints and the huge amount of stunts I had written the only way was to cast the cheapest guy who happened to know how to do the things…. it was sort of the only way that we were going to be able to make this film, and though my work load would eventually take its toll on the bags under my eyes (that’s what make up is for) we got through it and with the amazing support of Kelly and Aaron we were able to pull of something that is pretty amazing.

This Town was a labour of love, inspired by a friend and a drive through the roads of Hawkes Bay looking at the mountains of where I grew up. I was just very fortunate that the crew, cast and community of This Town came with me on this crazy journey and I hope they are as proud of the film as I am of them.

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MEET THE CAST DAVID WHITE | DIRECTOR, WRITER, ACTOR

David White has produced and directed a substantial body of documentary and drama work that has enjoyed considerable national and international success, among them Meat, Shihad: Beautiful Machine, I Kill, Little Criminals, The Cleanest Pig and Killer? His work has screened at over 50 film festivals including Sundance, AFI, SXSW, SilverDocs, Tribeca, MIFF, TRUE/FALSE, Clermont Ferrand and been commissioned and screened on BBC, Sky and Prime TV amongst selling commissioned work across the globe.

He was the first New Zealander to be shortlisted for a Cinema Eye Honor (documentary) for his film I Kill. In 2014 David graduated from the inaugural Entrepreneurial Producing for Creative Industries course run by the NFTS, championed by Sir Richard

Branson and sponsored by Ingenious Media. His documentary Little Criminals (2015) aired on Prime TV to strong ratings and critical acclaim and more recently directed an episode of Decades in Colour (2017 – Prime TV) for Greenstone.

His latest theatrical documentary Meat (2017) executive produced by Phil Fairclough (Grizzly Man/ Cave of Forgotten Dreams) funded with support of NZOA / NZFC opened to 4 star reviews and sell out audiences throughout New Zealand and was recently released on multiple NZME platforms. Meat was also been picked up by MPI Media Group for world sales, had a small a theatrical release in America and has sold globally.

David’s (writer/director/producer) debut comedy film This Town (in association with South Pacific Pictures) comes out March 2020 and stars Robyn Malcolm, Rima Te Wiata, and himself as the main character with funding from NZFC, distribution by Madman and world sales by The Film Sales Company. This Town was developed at the prestigious Venice Biennale College – Cinema of which only 12 people are selected from a worldwide call each year.

David has just been commissioned to write his next feature film, has several TV shows in development and has recently gone back to his roots and has started to produce other people’s work.

He is a past board member of SPADA (NZ Producers Guild), has his own BBQ sauce and has had several gallery shows for his lathed wooden bowls.

AN INTERVIEW WITH DAVID WHITE | DIRECTOR / WRITER / ACTOR / PRODUCER Tell us about your character?

I’m the Writer and Director of This Town I also play Sean who’s the main character. The movie is a comedy about a young man who has been acquitted of a terrible crime and is just trying to get on with

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his life. However, the cop who arrested him has quit the police force, started a petting zoo adventure park and spends her spare time trying to convince the town of his guilt.

Sean has been acquitted of a serious crime. One of the things I like about him is even though a lot of people think he’s guilty, he is trying his best to get on with life. He’s willing to put himself out there in the world so he signs up for a dating app to try and move on.

Have you had any experience living or working in small town/rural NZ and can you tell us the best and worst thing about it?

I’ve had a bunch of experiences in rural New Zealand because I grew up on a farm in Hawkes Bay. This Town was actually shot in my home district in Takapau and Waipukurau. It was amazing to take a film back to where I grew up, to locations I love, and to showcase the world I know.

How did you come up with the idea of THIS TOWN?

I’d just come back from London and I was driving home from a friend’s house. I was driving over a beautiful hill and I could

see this vista of mountains and grass, I wondered what it would be like for a person to be accused of a terrible crime in an isolated community. How would that manifest itself in a person trying to get on with his life?

When I started writing This Town Sean’s character owned an odd job business, so I put in a lot of things I knew how to do. Like shooting guns, using big chainsaws, driving tractors and having a demolition team, which I have. As we got closer to production it wasn’t our first choice to have me in the role of Sean, but I knew how to do all these things. So even though it was a higher workload and I hadn’t done a lot of acting in the past, it was the best choice for this film.

MEET THE CAST (cont’d)

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ROBYN MALCOLM | ACTRESS

In November 2010 Robyn Malcolm appeared on television to say a heartfelt goodbye to Outrageous Fortune, the show in which her character Cheryl West had become one of New Zealand television's most iconic. Cheryl was part of an impressive acting career for Malcolm that stretches over three decades.

Graduating from drama school Toi Whakaari in 1987, Malcolm began working extensively in theatre. In 2003 she won an International Actors Fellowship to study at London's Globe Theatre.

She made her on screen debut in 1989, in police series Shark in the Park. But she would first catch the attention of television audiences five years later, after joining the staff of Shortland Street. During almost six years on the soap, Malcolm earned her first screen nomination for Best Actress at the 1998 Television Awards. Six years after leaving Shortland Street she scored her first screen award satire Serial Killers, in which she played a stressed out scriptwriter. Post-Shortland Street, Malcolm founded the New Zealand Actors' Company with Tim Balme, Katie Wolfe and future Outrageous Fortune director Simon Bennett. The company produced and toured successful productions of A Midsummer Night's Dream and Roger Hall saga A Way of Life across NZ.

In 2002 Malcolm was nominated for her performance in the title role of tele-movie Clare, based on the cervical cancer experiment at National Women's Hospital. In 2005, the same year she was awarded for Serial Killers, Malcolm travelled to France to front documentary Our Lost War: Passchendaele, about the World War I battle in which her great uncle was one of many to lose their lives. 2005 was also the year she first played Cheryl West in Outrageous Fortune. The show would go on to become the longest running drama in New Zealand TV history and along the way Malcolm stacked up an impressive run of awards and nominations, including 2007 Air NZ Screen Awards for Best Actress, and Qantas TV Awards in 2005 and 2008.

In 2010 Malcolm took another centre stage role with The Hopes and Dreams of Gazza Snell, the first feature from award-winning Insider’s Guide director Brendan Donovan. She was nominated for an Aotearoa Film Award after playing Gail, a woman who feels like an outsider in her own family thanks to her husband's obsession with go-kart racing. Gazza Snell debuted in the 2010 round of film festivals.

After Malcolm pitched her idea for Agent Anna, the series debuted on TV One in January 2013. A second series followed in 2014. She also appeared in the 2013 season of Jane Campion's acclaimed miniseries Top of the Lake (as an American chimpanzee owner, seeking healing down under).

Since then — aside from some short films back home, and American fantasy series The Outpost — Malcolm has concentrated on Australian projects. In 2013, she began three seasons of TV comedy Upper Middle Bogan, in which her screen family is again caught up in motor engines. Her Australian work also includes playing swinging wife to a crime-lord (in hit show Rake), mother to Olivia Newton-John (in miniseries Hopelessly Devoted to You), and a TV remake of Australian outback classic, Wake in Fright.

Malcolm has also had acting roles in Kiwi-shot features Perfect Strangers, Absent without Leave, The Last Tattoo, and Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers.

MEET THE CAST (cont’d)

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In 2019 she was named a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to television and theatre. AN INTERVIEW WITH ROBYN MALCOM - “PAM” Tell us about your character

In This Town I play the role of ex-cop Pam. She’s an ex-cop in life, but not in her heart. Once a cop always a cop as far as she’s concerned. She quit the police force after a guy she arrested didn't end up being convicted and she believes that he is as guilty as sin, and has lost all faith in the justice system. Now she runs a petting zoo called Pam’s Petting Zoo and Adventure Park to make ends meet, but is still zealously fixated on Sean and is still trying to prove that he did it. She’s become a bit obsessive about it all.

How does your relationship with Sean develop?

She arrested him for multiple murders five years ago and he got off. He's come back into the community, he's reintegrated himself into the community. She's just horrified because as far as she’s concerned, a killer is walking around loose, having relationships, going on Date Match, doing odd jobs for people and it's an appalling miscarriage of justice. So she's devoted her life to her petting zoo, but also continuing to investigate this unsolved crime so she can get this guilty evil person put away.

Did Sean do it? How important is the truth of this answer to your character?

If Pam can get him rearrested and put away, then she can believe in justice again and re-join the police force. She's been a small town cop her entire life and has known the community intimately. She looks after them, she looks after their interests. She sees herself as the guardian; almost like an old-school Sheriff, she will take the law into her own hands. But she knows the law and she's a very just and righteous person. If she can get Sean put away for good, then it's a good thing for the entire town, the town is protected and she gets her old job back.

MEET THE CAST (cont’d)

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ALICE MAY CONNOLLY | ACTRESS Newcomer Alice May Connolly gets her first opportunity to take on a lead role in a movie in This Town.

Graduating from Toi Whakaari, New Zealand Drama School with a Bachelor of Performing Arts and Canterbury University with Bachelor of Arts, Connolly has worked extensively in theatre since graduation. In 2019 she joined the cast of immersive theatre show, 2nd Unit: What Will You Do in the Shadows and appeared in This Long Winter at Bats Theatre in Wellington.

Connolly has stared in several web series; Burbs in 2017 and NZ Idle in 2014. She also had the role of Pip in NZ feature film Daffodils which was released in 2019.

AN INTERVIEW WITH ALICE CONNOLLY – “CASEY” Tell us about your character

This Town is about a man who has been acquitted of a serious crime, he wants to move on with his life and hopefully find love. Casey is a sweet, quite sheltered young woman who wears her heart on her sleeve. She has a good group of friends, but often feels a bit out of place. She meets Sean and he’s a perfect fit. The thing I love about Casey is that she always sees the good in people and she doesn’t believe what everyone tells her about Sean. She wants to find out for herself and she does.

What was your experience like filming THIS TOWN?

My experience on this film was awesome I had a blast with everybody and it was really fun. I’d never done much filming before so everything was new and exciting. I was very ‘deer in the headlights’ but it was great, what a great bunch of people to be around.

Have you had any experience living or working in small town/rural NZ and can you tell us the best and worst thing about it?

I’ve spent some time in small towns, my Dad lives in Geraldine which is in South Canterbury. I’ve had some experiences with that kind of set up and what’s really great about small towns is that obviously it’s all in the people. The people all come together, whether it’s to stick their noses in your business or to band together to help you in hard times.

MEET THE CAST (cont’d)

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RIMA TE WIATA | ACTRESS Rima Te Wiata first appeared on stage in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie at Auckland's Mercury Theatre, and later attended the New Zealand Drama School. After graduating, she went on a six month national tour, singing in Footrot Flats.

Te Wiata made her screen debut in 1986 on the long-running Australian soap Sons and Daughters, playing the role of Janice Reid for two years. On her return to New Zealand she appeared in a number of television series including Shortland Street, police drama Shark in the Park, comedies The Billy T James Show and Porters, and sketch shows Laughinz, Issues and More Issues. Her roles in these sketch shows were written by David McPhail, Jon Gadsby and A. K.

Grant and included impersonations of politician and future Prime Minister Helen Clark and newsreader Judy Bailey. The show won her the Viewers' Choice Most Popular Female on TV Award for two consecutive years.

Te Wiata spent the next two years working on Australian sketch comedy show Full Frontal and also began appearing in films, including Send a Gorilla (1988), Cops and Robbers (1993), Hinekaro Goes on a Picnic and Blows Up another Obelisk (1995) and Via Satellite (1998).

Her stage appearances have included starring roles as Sally Bowles in Cabaret, Lady Macbeth in Macbeth, the voice of the cannibalistic singing plant in Little Shop of Horrors and directing and acting in The Vagina Monologues in Dunedin.

In 2014 she appeared in horror comedy Housebound and in 2016 in Hunt for the Wilderpeople.

In 2017, Te Wiata starred in season two of the podcast Within the Wires portraying artist and historian Roimata Mangakāhia. She has also released a self-titled jazz album, and toured with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra.

In 2016, Te Wiata won the New Zealand Film Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Hunt for the Wilderpeople. In the 2017 New Year Honours, she was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to film and television.

MEET THE CAST (cont’d)

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AN INTERVIEW WITH RIMA TE WIATA- “JANICE” Tell us about your character (eg. their job/ their family etc)

My character is a conspiring journalist who wants to exploit the murders that have happened in her town, to her own advantage. You know she’s not really doing it because she’s got some fervent belief in the pursuit of justice, she wants to ride off the back of the notoriety the murder has provided. Whereas Pam wants justice, Janice actually just wants to be famous.

Did Sean do it? How important is the truth of this answer to your character?

She doesn’t believe him, but she thinks he might be worth a lot of money to her if she talks about his story and can sell it in a book. Her real idea is to find ways to promote her book, even though it’s full of tripe.

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PRODUCTION TEAM

KELLY MARTIN | PRODUCER Kelly Martin is CEO of South Pacific Pictures, New Zealand’s leading film and television production company.

Kelly has over 20 years experience in New Zealand television, having worked at both major networks of TVNZ and Mediaworks TV3 where she managed international acquisition and oversaw local production strategy and commissioning.

Some of the local productions Martin is most proud of bringing to the screen include Outrageous Fortune, The Almighty Johnsons, The Strip, What’s Really in Our Food?, The Secret Life of Dancers, Missing Pieces, numerous Inside NZ documentaries, and the development of the channels successful comedy strategy – which started with bro’Town and has included The Jaquie Brown Diaries, Pulp Sport, Hounds, WannaBen, Jono and Ben at Ten, Golden, various AotearoHa Specials and The Comedy Gala.

Since joining South Pacific Pictures in 2012, Kelly has worked as the Executive Producer of TV2’s top rating weeknight drama serial Shortland Street as well as TV One’s Nothing Trivial, Step Dave for TV2, The Brokenwood Mysteries for Prime TV, Mean Mums and Westside for Three, Educators, 800 Words, The Bad Seed for TVNZ and recent Canadian co-production The Sounds for Acorn TV.

Kelly is Co-President of SPADA (Screen Production and Development Association) and an active member of WIFT (Women in Film & Television) New Zealand.

AARON WATSON | PRODUCER Aaron Watson's career path has been anything but dull. He's acted in children's television programmes InFocus and Oi, performed at the 1996 Edinburgh Festival Fringe with his friend Duncan Sarkies, and spent 14 years as a tour guide in Russia and Central Europe.

Dunedin-raised, Watson turned to producing in 2011, working with friend Jackie van Beek on short films In Safe Hands (a 2012 NZ Film Award winner) and Go the Dogs (2012 Berlin Film Festival). In 2017 the pair released their first feature film, The Inland Road. Watson has recently produced the feature film This Town from Wellington filmmaker David White.

PRODUCTION TEAM

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SOUTH PACIFIC PICTURES South Pacific Pictures is New Zealand’s largest production company with an international reputation for producing world-class television and film. The company is in its 31st year of operation and to date has produced more than 5500 hours of programming. South Pacific Pictures' cornerstone production is the primetime nightly serial drama Shortland Street, which celebrated 25 years on air in New Zealand in May 2017. The current production slate includes Canadian co-production The Sounds for Acorn TV, a sixth series of Westside for Three and a sixth series of The Brokenwood Mysteries for Prime TV. Other productions include Educators, Mean Mums, The Bad Seed, 800 Words, Step Dave, Forensics NZ, Nothing Trivial, The Blue Rose, The Almighty Johnsons and Outrageous Fortune. Outrageous Fortune cemented its position as New Zealand’s standout drama series from 2005-2010. The award-winning and critically acclaimed show has sold into Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and across Europe. The Outrageous Fortune format has also been licensed to the USA and the UK for local adaptations. South Pacific Picture’s most recent feature film was White Lies, based Witi Ihimaera’s short tale ‘The Medicine Woman’, which screened in New Zealand cinemas from June 2013. The film premiered in the US in January 2014 and was submitted as the official New Zealand entry for consideration for Best Foreign Language film at the 86th Academy Awards. South Pacific Pictures’ other feature film highlights include Sione’s 2: Unfinished Business, the highest grossing New Zealand film of 2012 and, like its predecessor Sione’s Wedding, rates in the top 10 New Zealand films at the New Zealand box-office, and the 2002 Academy Award nominated film Whale Rider, starring Keisha Castle-Hughes. WHITE BALANCE FILMS White Balance Pictures is a small boutique production company run by its principal David White. It has produced multiply theatrical films and TV programs. There work has enjoyed considerable national and international success, among them Meat, Shihad: Beautiful Machine, I Kill, Little Criminals, The Cleanest Pig and Killer? Their work has screened at over 50 film festivals including Sundance, AFI, SXSW, SilverDocs, Tribeca, MIFF, TRUE/FALSE, Clermont Ferrand and has been commissioned and sold across the globe for the small screen. MADMAN Madman is Australasia’s leading independent theatrical, home entertainment distribution and rights Management Company. Madman specialise in the wholesale distribution of DVD and BLU RAY products into sales channels throughout Australia and New Zealand. Other rights management activities undertaken by Madman include theatrical distribution, as well as licensing for television, video-on-demand, hotel, airline and merchandise. Established back in 1996 by a couple of self-confessed nerds keen to share their passion for awesome content, Madman is proudly independent, run by fans, for fans and is still managed by founders Tim Anderson and Paul Wiegard. Madman proudly showcases the best in collectible and special interest genres including Australian film, world cinema, TV, kid’s content, anime, sports and more.

FULL CREDITS

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DIRECTED BY

DAVID WHITE

WRITTEN BY

DAVID WHITE

HENRY FELTHAM

PRODUCED BY

KELLY MARTIN

AARON WATSON

DAVID WHITE

DEVELOPMENT PRODUCER

JAMES ASHCROFT

LINE PRODUCER

PAMELA HARVEY-WHITE

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY

PRODUCTION DESIGNER

ADAM LUXTON

JOSH O'NEILL

COSTUME DESIGNER

MAKEUP DESIGNER

BRIAR VIVIAN

HAYLEY NESS

GAFFER & B CAMERA OPERATOR

PRODUCTION MANAGER

DAMIAN SEAGAR

OLIVIA SHANKS

SOUND DESIGNER

COLOURIST

JAMES HAYDAY

DAVID McLAREN

EDITED BY PAUL WEDEL

FRANCIS GLENDAY

MEGAN BROOKS

MUSIC BY MONIKER SAMUEL SCOTT

LUKASZ BUDA

CONRAD WEDDE

FULL CREDITS (cont’d)

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SOUND RECORDISTS

JOEL ANSCOMBE-SMITH

NICLAS WIDFELDT

CASTING BY

MIRANDA RIVERS

TINA CLEARY

SEAN

PAM

DAVID WHITE

ROBYN MALCOLM

CASEY

HAROLD

ALICE MAY CONNOLLY

JACK SERGENT-SHADBOLT

GEORGE

ALEX

PETER HAMBLETON

AARON CORTESI

JULES

JANICE

LOREN TAYLOR

RIMA TE WIATA

GRANDMA RUTH

JUDY

CATHERINE WILKIN

LARA MACGREGOR

GRANDPA ROBERT

JIM

PETER MCCAULEY

PHIL VAUGHAN

ANNA

HELEN

EMMA DRAPER

JULIETTE HAMILTON

SARAH

TONY

STELLA REID

BYRON COLL

JUNE

FRANK – WOMAN R US EDITOR

TINA COOK

JEREMY RANDERSON

GABE MCDONNELL CATIE - WOMAN R US EDITOR

FULL CREDITS (cont’d)

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DANNY MULHERON DANNY DENUTO

AMANDA

JAZMIN

AMEILA REID-MEREDITH

OLIVIA TENNET

PRIEST

PHOTOGRAPHER

PETER CHARLTON-JONES

SAM SHORE

TULLEY

LAURA

JAYE GLAM MORGAN

LAURA ELLWOOD

TROY - FARMER

BRIAR

JASON HOYTE

BRIAR ELLWOOD

MATT - FARMER

ISAAC

JONNY BRUGH

ISAAC ELLWOOD

GARY

GUNSHOP OWNER

DAVID BERRY

MARY KIPPENBERGER

Additional Writing MICHAEL WHITE

First Assistant Director HANNAH WOODS

Production Assistant ALLAN ENNOR

Production Runner HAMISH FINLAY

Production Lawyer JESSICA WISEMAN

Legal Assistant HEATHER JENSEN

Production Accountant DIANE BODDY

Insurance Company CROMBIE LOCKWOOD LTD

Insurance Broker SHARLENE McDONALD

Standby Props CINTA DAMERELL

Props Maker IVO DELIYSKI

In Film Graphics Design HADLEY DONALDSON

Art Department Intern SIOBAHN HOPE

Costume Assistants HANNAH WOODS

JESSIE NOAKES

FULL CREDITS (cont’d)

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BARBARA TEE

Costume Intern SABINE BAILEY

Key Make Up Artist RACHEL JOHANSON

Additional Make Up Artists CONSTANZA HERRERA

JULIE CLARK

Make Up Interns JUSTIN SMITH

MANDA ZUN

PAIGE SHAND

Street Casting / Rehearsal Coach LOREN TAYLOR

First Assistant Camera FENTON DYER

BILL BYCROFT

Second Assistant Camera LAURA TAIT

Publicity TAMAR MUNCH

RACHAEL KEEREWEER

Stills Photographer/ EPK WILL MOORE

Additional Camera Operators BENJAMIN FORMAN

JUDAH FINNIGAN

Drone Operators AARON AARDVARK

TAMA BEAR

Five Guys DAMIAN SEAGAR

Poster Design JOHNNY McCORMACK

Poster Photographer MEIGHAN ELLIS

Additional Sound Recordists KEN SAVILLE

Boom Operator SAM SPICER

Additional lighting MATTHEW KOFOED

VFX artists FRANCIS GLENDAY

MIKE STEPHENSON

STAN ALLEY

Re-Recording Mixer JAMES HAYDAY

Dialogue Editor BEN TAT

FULL CREDITS (cont’d)

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Sound Effects Editor CHRIS SINCLAIR

Foley Artist KAROLINA JEDRZEJCZYK

Foley Editor CLAUDIA SANCHEZ TORRES

Mix Technician ALEX CHALEOFF

Safety Officers PAUL ANDREASSEND

LIFEGUARD AND SAFETY

WARREN ELLIOT

SHERYLE WHITE

Catering ROARING FORTY TAKEWAYS LTD

DONALD PARKINSON

SERENA PARKINSON

JULIA COOK

Breakfast Caterer GRACE WHITE

Animal Wrangler GAY & TREVOR KINGSTON

Accommodation PUKEORA ESTATE

WALLINGFORD HOMESTEAD

Camera Equipment CANON

PANAVISION

RUBBER MONKEY

Lighting Equipment PORTSMOUTH FILM HIRE LTD

Car Rentals DIRT CHEAP RENTALS LTD

Editing Facilities WHITE BALANCE PICTURES LTD

DIGITAL SCISSORS

Grading Facilities BIG TREE STUDIOS

Foley Courtesy of SOUND DISPOSITION

Post Production Sound & ADR Services by DEPT OF POST

Dept Of Post Head of Engineering JAMES GARDNER

Dept Of Post Head of Production JAMES BROOKES

NEW ZEALAND FILM COMMISSION

FULL CREDITS (cont’d)

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CEO ANNABELLE SHEEHAN

Head Of Marketing JASMIN MCSWEENEY

Head Of Development and Production LEANNE SAUNDERS

Head Of International Relations CHRIS PAYNE

Production Executive MARC ASHTON

Film Materials Manager TRACEY BROWN

CAST

Chad DOLAN WILKINS

Truck Drivers KEVIN GIDDENS

LARS PORTER

TEREIHA HAPI

SCOTT MARTIN

JARRED MACDOLAND

Sean's Father DAVE JONES

Sean's Mother SANDRA ALSLENBEN

Sean's Sister LUCY MAVIN

Sean's Sister LAURA JOHNSON

Cinema Club Members GEORGIA KOHLEIS

BREE WHITE

KELSEY MARSHALL

Town Folk JOHN JUKES

ASHLEIGH McCORMIC

BRIDGET McCORMIC

Hen’s Night Bartender PAULA DAVIS

Family On The Street SARAH HEMI

ADRIAN GANLEY

REBECCA GANLEY

JAMES GANLEY

FULL CREDITS (cont’d)

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HAMISH GANLEY

Nurse DEBBIE HART

Cleaner at Hospital RACHAEL QUINNEY

Street Folk HELEN HOWELL

Street Folk COLIN HOWELL

Beth JOANNE JOHNSON

Checkout Cashier MICHELLE WOOD

Woman At Check Out JULIE HALES

Hen's Night Guests SEREENA PARKINSON

BRIDIE THOMSON

WILNA STRYDOM

JESSIE AMBLER

PENIELI EDWARDS

Stripper PULETINI VAOFUSI

Pub Customers ALLAN ENNOR

THUTCH

HORIANA GOLDSMITH

Cops MATTHEW HEMI

WILLIAM GLASS

Chinese Restaurant Waitress KELLY MUI

Derby Drivers STUART SMITH

DOUG MAULDER

LEIGH ELLWOOD

JONO MAULDER

BEATLE (STEVE TARRANT)

RANDALL TARRANT

CALEB CHURCHWARD

JAMES CHURCHWARD

SAM BARRY

Derby Audience REEGAN TARRANT

FULL CREDITS (cont’d)

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DALLAS ROPER

DALIYA ROPER

VAL TARRANT

BRONWYN GUDOPP

AIDAN TERPSTRA

JIM TERPSTRA

MILTON CURTIS

LOGAN GANDERTON

AIMEE KILLGOUR

EMILY KILLGOUR

TOBY BEURLE

TIM PARKER

TAIPARI WYLLIE

BRAXTON ROSE

CLARK SUTCLIFFE

OLIVIA MONTGOMERY

LACHLAN MONTGOMERY

AARON MILNE

ASHLEY ELLMERS

MADERSON KOPUA

SOPHIE KYNOCH

AMIE BISHOP

QUINTIN BUTCHER

GEMMA BUTCHER

CALEB HIBBARD

MORGAN ANDERSON

WAINE ATUA

Derby Screamers GEORGI STIRLING

LUCY ANDERSON

CHARLOTTE DAVIES

FULL CREDITS (cont’d)

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AMY DE CLEENE

STELLA HUGGINS

Derby Drivers ADR HAYDEN WEAL

JULIAN HUGGINS

SAM SCOTT

Angry Boy Voice RALPH SCOTT

Angry Woman Voice MELANIE JONES

Wedding Guest ANN WHYTE

BRENDA CONLON

CATHERINE HOSKEN

CHAD HEBERLEY

DAVID KINGI

IAN SHEPHERD

JARED MULINDER

JUDY SHEPHERD

LEE WINTERS

LEILANI HAPI

MARIE WHEELER

ROBYN KINGI

TIM EWEN

TRISHA JACOBSEN

WARREN ELLIOTT

SPECIAL THANKS TO

JOHN & LYNN WHITE

LEIGH & NATASHA ELLWOOD

PETER & MICHELLE WHITE

PATRICIA & GARETH CARVER

ANTHONY & RHIANNON WHITE

FULL CREDITS (cont’d)

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MICHAEL WHITE & MEG EVERIST

MAX ANNABEL

KATE NORMAN

CHAD HEBERLEY

PAULA DAVIS

SEREENA PARKINSON

ROB & JEAN ENNOR

TREVOR & GAY KINGSTON

BRUCE ROBERTSON

OLIVIA IHIMAERA-DAWKINS

GORDON BARRY

CLAUDE DASAN

CRAIG MCINTOSH

BENJAMIN FORMAN

KAT LINTOTT

EMILY MILLS

MADELEINE MILLS

JASMIN MARTIN-WHITE

KARIN WILLIAMS

CHRIS HAMPSON

DAVE GIBSON

ANTONIA WALLACE

GRACE McPHERSON

MARK GOODER

CRAIG PEARCE CHRIS O’CONNOR

BEN EDWARDS PENNIE BLACK

ANDREW THOMPSON ANITA BURNSIDE

CENTRAL HAWKE'S BAY COUNCIL MICHAEL & BRONWYN WILTON

LESLEY HOGAN AARON & RHONDA BARTLETT

FULL CREDITS (cont’d)

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TAKAPAU VOLUNTEER FIRE BRIGADE

GRAHAM WILLIAMS TIM EWEN

ANTHONY LITTLE-JOHN SIMON LAW

BLAIR KENT HUGH McDONALD

ELLEN LEE ROBERT MALCOLM

GERARD KENNEDY SARAH HEMI

CENTRAL HAWKE'S BAY MOTORS RIKKI LEE DIACK

MARK DRAKE FARMER'S TRANSPORT WAIPAWA

SUZANNE CAMPBELL PAPER PLUS WAIPUKURAU

ALISON LUDLOW HELLO WORLD WAIPUKURAU

KRISTIN SETH DENISE SKILTON

JASMIN VIVIAN PIP BURNE

JAINDRA WATSON BIG BARRELL

ALICE BAKER RAVI SINGH

WAIPAWA MUSICAL & DRAMATIC SOCIETY ANGUS HARRISON

WAIPUKURAU LITTLE THEATRE JANET POTTS

CLINTON LLEWELLYN ROBERT GRIFFITHS

HEIDI REPKO PETER HARRIS

GAVIN BOYD JUDITH FINLAY

DANNY PRIESTLY KEN & WAH MUI

STEVE TOPP HOLIDAY INN RESTAURANT

CENTRAL DESIGN AND PRINT RUSSELL WINDSOR

PETER MULLAN BRIGID CONNOR

CHRIS MATTHEWS PAULA VAN BEEK

MARK CHAMBERLAIN LUCAS PUTNAM

PENNY HAY ANDY MILLER

TOM WESTLAKE TUI MILLER

DYLAN TAYLOR VICTORIA SPACKMAN

ANNA TAYLOR STUART COATS

SHANE MANNELL JESSICA SCOTT

FULL CREDITS (cont’d)

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STUART CURTIS MICHAEL WRENN

ALEX REID CHRIS BAILEY

RAFE HAMPSON VINCENT BURKE

LYDIA McKINNON DAVID COYLE

SEBASTIAN HAMPSON MICHAEL CHARLTON-JONES

DAVID FARRIER JANELLE CHARLTON-JONES

SAM SHORE STACEY TESTRO

EMMA WOOLLEY KATRINA GLENDAY

LAURENCE ALEXANDER IAN ROUSE

JOSH WELLS REBEKAH PEARSON

DIANNE MARTIN NIKKI WILKINSON

JULIAN HIGGINS STELLA HUGGINS

CAMILLA WALKER CHRIS HARRE

LEONNE KASSLER LEIGH ROSIN

PETER SHORE LUCY TYNDALL

RAY GAZLEY ALEX WALKER

SALLY TRAN OLIVER GAZLEY

SIMON DE BRUYN SANDY GILDEA

JOS RUFFEL THOMAS GLEESON

PETE GILLESPIE IAN GILLESPIE

JARROD MACDONALD HARRY WYNN

SOPHIE BRETHERTON-JONES BEN STEVENS

JEFFERYJONES BRANDON TEMOANANUI

JUDAH FINNIGAN CHRISTINA ARATHIMOS

KEELY PARK CLARE HINTON

MEREDITH MEYER-NICHOLS CONOR LUI

MICHAEL COURIAN GRETA SHANKS

PAUL PRINGLE HANNAH MCOWAN

STEVE FINNIGAN HUDSON GAVIN MARTIN

GRANT BAKER HOLLY FINNIGAN

FULL CREDITS (cont’d)

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CHARLIE CLARK RICK KOMENE

PETE CLARK TOM DUNCAN

MICHAEL KUCYK JANE ANDERSON

CHRIS OSBOURNE ROLAND HEAP

HANNAH WALKER PERCEPTUAL ENGINEERING

JON BAXTER GWEN NORCLIFFE

LIGHTBOX MADMAN

HEMA PATEL PAUL WIEGARD

CHARLOTTE HILL PAUL TONTA

LUKE MURRAY

ANDREW COZENS

ABBEY STRANG

BIENNALE COLLEGE-CINEMA

JANE WILLIAMS

MICHEL REILHAC

GINO VENTRIGLIA

ANITA VOORHAM

AMRA BAKSIC CAMO

ALEC VON BARGEN

VALENTINA BELLOMO

AGUSTINA CHIARINO

GIACOMO DURZI

MIKE RYAN

AGUSTINA CHIARINO

PAUL TYLER

MARIETTA VON HAUSSWOLF VON BAUMGARTEN

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MUSIC

HELLO MISS LONESOME

Written and Performed by Marlon Williams

Used with permission from Native Tongue Music Publishing

Courtesy of Marlon Williams

I WOULDN’T DREAM OF IT

Written by Gary Geld and Peter Udell

Performed by Joyce Heath

Universal PolyGram Int. Publishing Inc.

Administered by Universal Music Publishing Pty Ltd

Courtesy of Efficient Space

FORGET IT

Written By by L.Buda, W. Emery, W.Ricketts, S. Scott, R. Singleton and

T.C.Wedde

Used with permission from Native Tongue Publishing

Performed by the Phoenix Foundation

WITHOUT YOU

Written by T.Jesso & A.Rechshaid

Performed by T.Jesso

Universal PolyGram Int. Publishing Inc.

Licensed Courtesy of True Panther Sounds

By arrangement with Beggars Group Media

DOUBLE RAINBOW

Written by L.Buda, S. Scott, T.C.Wedde

Used with permission from Native Tongue Publishing

Performed by Moniker

SOPHISTICATED LADY

Written by L.Buda, S. Scott, T.C.Wedde

Used with permission from Native Tongue Publishing

Performed by Moniker

CANDY

Written by L.Buda, S. Scott, T.C.Wedde

Used with permission from Native Tongue Publishing

Performed by Moniker

PONY ROOM

Written by L.Buda, S. Scott, T.C.Wedde

Used with permission from Native Tongue Publishing

Performed by Moniker

BLOW A PISTON PARTY PANTS

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Written by L.Buda, S. Scott, T.C.Wedde

Used with permission from Native Tongue Publishing

Performed by David White

Written by L.Buda, S. Scott, T.C.Wedde

Used with permission from Native Tongue Publishing

Performed by Moniker

BABY TOOK MY STASH

Written by L.Buda, S. Scott, T.C.Wedde

Used with permission from Native Tongue Publishing

Performed by Moniker

STRANGER CAME TO TOWN

Written by L.Buda, S. Scott, T.C.Wedde

Used with permission from Native Tongue Publishing

Performed by Moniker

UNTIL YOU DIE

Written by L.Buda, S. Scott, T.C.Wedde

Used with permission from Native Tongue Publishing

Performed by Moniker

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Filmed on location in Central Hawke's Bay, Aotearoa New Zealand.

All characters and events in this motion picture are entirely fictional and any similarity to any person living or dead is purely coincidental.

This motion picture including its soundtrack is protected by the copyright laws of Aotearoa New Zealand and all other applicable laws worldwide

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Any unauthorized reproduction, distribution or exhibition of this material for any purpose whatsoever is a breach of copyright and will result in civil and criminal prosecution

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