Alice Fraser

Starlight Hotel (1987)

During the Great Depression, Kate (Greer Robson) is a 13-year-old girl living on New Zealand's South Island. When her mother dies and her father is offered a job in Wellington on North Island, Kate is sent to live with an aunt. The girl runs away to find her ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Sam Pillsbury
CAST:  Greer Robson  •  Peter Phelps  •  Alice Fraser  •  Patrick Smyth

During the Great Depression, Kate (Greer Robson) is a 13-year-old girl living on New Zealand's South Island. When her mother dies and her father is offered a job in Wellington on North Island, Kate is sent to live with an aunt. The girl runs away to find her ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Sam Pillsbury
CAST:  Greer Robson  •  Peter Phelps  •  Alice Fraser  •  Patrick Smyth

Send a Gorilla (1988)

The girls and gorillas at a singing telegram company are overworked because it is Valentine's Day. A series of sub-plots - a sexist disc jockey loses his dog and the girls fine it; one of the girls fights for custody of her child; an aspiring opera singer gets ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Melanie Read
CAST:  Carmel McGlone  •  Katherine McRae  •  Perry Piercy  •  John Callen

The girls and gorillas at a singing telegram company are overworked because it is Valentine's Day. A series of sub-plots - a sexist disc jockey loses his dog and the girls fine it; one of the girls fights for custody of her child; an aspiring opera singer gets ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Melanie Read
CAST:  Carmel McGlone  •  Katherine McRae  •  Perry Piercy  •  John Callen

Ngati (1987)

Set in and around the fictional town of Kapua in 1948, Ngati is the story of a Māori community. The film comprises three narrative threads: a boy, Ropata, is dying of leukaemia; the return of a young Australian doctor, Greg, and his discovery that he has Māori ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Barry Barclay
CAST:  Judy McIntosh  •  Ross Girven  •  Tuta Ngarimu Tatami  •  Iranui Haig

Set in and around the fictional town of Kapua in 1948, Ngati is the story of a Māori community. The film comprises three narrative threads: a boy, Ropata, is dying of leukaemia; the return of a young Australian doctor, Greg, and his discovery that he has Māori ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Barry Barclay
CAST:  Judy McIntosh  •  Ross Girven  •  Tuta Ngarimu Tatami  •  Iranui Haig