Back in the Saddle

Well, we’ve finally managed to catch our breath after an intense beginning to the year. The Netherwood Rural Roadshow was a terrific success. We met so many wonderful and interesting people and enjoyed terrific hospitality everywhere we went. It was a crazy road-trip that took a lot of preparation and an incredible amount of energy. As such, the hangover has taken us quite while to get over. I can report now that we are back in the saddle and forging ahead in our quest to bring exciting and entertaining New Zealand stories to the people. Continuing, of course, with Netherwood..

Posts will continue to be erratic for the time being, but there’s plenty going on at Netherwood headquarters so stay posted for news on Netherwood’s pending nationwide release, international festival updates and an exciting announcement about project number two..

Ambling On

We are contiuing to push our cause. Next on the agenda: overseas festivals…

For those at the Waiau screening during the tour, we came across the other Waiau Hotel that may have falsely recieved your sausages!

The Waiau Hotel, Tuatapere

Unlikey pair outside the Waiau Hotel

Where to next?

It has been a couple of weeks now since the tour ended and the team has spread far and wide across the country working on different films. Will is back up in Auckland working on two projects. Owen is preparing for a role that requires him to eat a lot of chicken breast and not much else. And this blog is coming to you from somewhere way down south (see if you recognise it from the photo). As far as Netherwood goes we are in communication with various distributors and preparing to start applying for overseas festivals.

Waipara Sunday Night

The last screening of the tour… We worked off our hangovers from the day before by walking up to the top of central peak of The Deans. Then the day was spent and the final night of the tour was upon us. Another full crowd in the Waipara Community Hall did us proud. Many came back to the Waipara Hotel afterwards for a Jim Beam and chat about the film. We had a fair group of the Netherwood team there who kept the night going way into the small hours. Thanks so much to Willie and Mel for putting up with us and putting us up for the night.  We will do our best to keep updating regularly. Another chapter of the Netherwood rollercoaster has ended but there is still more to come…

“Great fun, great landscape, great entertainment”   “Fantastic Show”   “Wow! what more can I say!”  ”Shit hot, hard case!!”

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Waipara Saturday Night

We started the morning with a soak in the free spa at our last Top 10 of the tour, Kaikoura. Once we said goodbye to the staff we stopped in at the New Commercial Hotel to pick up our sausies and have a quick drink behind the bar. Then we checked out the Kaikoura Show. Owen and Will won some prizes at the shooting range. Then we started a massive night kicking off with the packed out screening in the Waipara Community Hall, followed by the usual craziness of the Waipara pub…

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Kaikoura

Cris (director) joined us today for the last leg of the tour. We stopped for some photos at Frog Rock on our way to pick him up and then we carried on up the coast to check in at the Kaikoura Top 10. We caught up with some history at Fyffe House, built in 1840′s and supported by whale vertabrae. We shot back to the park for a swim in the heated pool and then went to kick off the screening. Kaikoura; we had to have sea food for dinner. We stopped at the Ocean View trailer next to the sea and had burgers with beautiful pan seared fish. The screening was another cracker and we were impressed with the great quality of the sound and picture in the Mayfair Theatre (built in 1935). We watched the rugby at the New Commercial Hotel (“the Mersh”) while the film was screening before we were joined by our new Netherwood enthusiasts.

“Stunning movie, well done!”   “Best ever Kiwi movie”   “Great film, left me hanging for more”

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Waiau

HOT. We got to hang out at the Hanmer hotpools for a spell today. The weather was pretty warm so we had a play in the river pool for a while. It is always great to make time for a soak in the pools. Waiau hall was packed! Pat came along to provide his digital projector and sell some popcorn. The fans were going flat-tak but with all the bodies and all the laughter it still got pretty warm. Then for the first time in my life I saw a cue of people outside a country pub! Such a great turn out and another fun night for us!

The internet connection is slow again so for more photos go to our facebook page

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