Film

Ken Loach has been described as the most left-wing and subversive film director Britain has ever had.  He talks about the stories he loves, his hopes for the UK and his reputation as a firebrand. Audio

Jackie van Beek is best known as Pauline in TV's Funny Girls and as a wannabe vampire in Taika Waititi's What We Do in the Shadows, but she has also written and directed many short films. The Inland… Audio

The Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra will be among the world’s first orchestras to present a one-of-a-kind live concert experience performing the soundtrack from La La Land alongside a full screening… Audio

Hollywood is on the lookout for women fluent in Te Reo after it was announced Moana will be the first Disney film to be translated into Te Reo Maori. Video, Audio

Axis, Anatomy of Space is Art Laureate Daniel Belton's new film work, which explores the depths of space through a sensory experience. It's on display as part of the Matariki Festival, making its… Audio

A fallen New Zealand mountaineer has provided inspiration for an opera by British composer Joby Talbot.  Video, Audio

Checkpoint reporter Zac Fleming heads along to the controversial documentary Vaxxed to talk to people opposed to vaccination, before putting their claims to an immunologist.  Video, Audio

Auckland needs more film studios if it's to meet the huge demand from overseas productions that want to shoot in New Zealand. Joanna Mackenzie reports on the demand. Audio

Virtual reality technology isn't just for millennials and gamers. Recently, a series of VR films targeted at a very mature audience premiered at a New York senior citizen's centre. Video, Audio

Irene Gardiner has picked a real petrolhead edition of Screen Gems for Simon Morris. Audio

The founder of Wikipedia is proposing a crowdsourced solution to the problems besetting the news media; and a TV series dealing with teen suicide raises questions about the censorship of video… Audio

The award-winning screen composer talks about his career and film music with RNZ's Adrian Hollay. Zimmer has scored over 150 films now, so there is quite a bit of music to choose from. Audio

The New Zealand International Film Festival has films to warm you up as the weather gets cooler. Features of the festival’s annual Autumn Events programme include the Judy Garland classic A Star is… Audio

The award-winning British character actor is in NZ to promote his new film Their Finest.

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Director Mick Jackson may well be best known for his film The Bodyguard starring the late Whitney Houston and Kevin Costner. His latest film, Denial, is a hard-hitting look at Holocaust denial and it… Audio

Hans Zimmer has written music for some of the biggest blockbuster films of our time - including ‘Thelma & Louise’, ‘Gladiator’, ‘The Pirates of the Caribbean’ and ‘Batman’ franchise, and ‘The Lion… Audio

Some cool applications for VR technology in art and filmmaking; Google wants you to share your location data with you friends; and a new concert subscription service is dubbed "Netflix for live… Audio

Hans Zimmer has written music for some of the biggest blockbuster films of our time - 'Gladiator', 'The Lion King', and the Batman franchise amongst the list of hundreds. Zimmer speaks to NZ film… Video, Audio