What immediately stands out in Peter Jackson’s documentary They Shall Not Grow Old is the faces of its subjects. A painstaking restoration of century-old video footage from the First World War, the film is a complex project with a simple goal: to try to convey what it was like to live and fight on the Western Front …
The World War I documentary produced by acclaimed filmmaker Sir Peter Jackson is up for a BAFTA next month for his new film which uses original footage from the Imperial War Museums’ extensive archive, much of it previously unseen, alongside BBC and IWM interviews with servicemen who fought in the conflict. Original film footage has …
Black and white silent film footage from World War I has been transformed by Oscar-winning director Sir Peter Jackson into a 3D colour documentary film to mark the centenary of the end of the conflict. The legendary filmmaker painstakingly restored and coloured hours of archival footage and paired it with historical veterans’ interviews and a …
It was a milestone moment for Weta Digital winning its first Emmy for outstanding special visual effects for its work on a zombie polar bear at the Creative Arts Emmys this month. Weta Digital’s visual effects supervisor Wayne Stables told Mike Hosking it’s an important step to help get them into the television market. “The best …
The latest Chinese feature film ‘Wolf Warrior II’ is currently hitting headlines around the world as it breaks China’s box office record for the highest grossing film in its history. It’s a great feeling for the team at Park Road as we had the pleasure of working with writer/director Wu Jing on the film’s sound …
Park Road will play host to a range of documentary-making talent on the 13th of May during this years Screen Edge Forum, part of Doc Edge; New Zealand’s International Documentary Film Festival. For ten years, Screen Edge has been an essential part of the Doc Edge Festival, to promote idea sharing and debate in a lively …
Park Road experienced firsthand the benefits of the reduced threshold applied to the 20% PDV Government incentive grant in late 2015. With the threshold lowered from $NZD1M down to $NZD500,000 an international feature film client who had sought out Park Road was encouraged to allocate more work to the facility thanks to the change. The …
‘Hunt for the Wilderpeople’, the latest film from New Zealand director Taika Waititi, was selected as one of two recipients of the Dolby Family Sound Fellowship which premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival in Utah. Sundance Institute® and the Dolby® Institute, along with the Ray and Dagmar Dolby Family Fund, provided the film with …
For Weta Workshop’s most enthusiastic space fans, this was a once in a lifetime opportunity; a chance for a group of artists and technicians so often tasked with bringing imaginary Science-fiction and fantasy worlds to life to ask all of their burning questions to Kjell Lindgren aboard the International Space Station. Kjell was part of …
Debut directors Khurram H. Alavi and Ayman Jamal’s first animated feature ‘Bilal’, is ready to excite audiences with its story of a real hero who earned his remembrance in time and history. Post-production was completed at Park Road late 2015 prior to the film’s premiere at the Dubai International Film Festival. The debut animated feature …