Wellywood Woman

It's always exciting when a New Zealand woman-directed feature comes out. There's been a big gap between Dana Rotberg's White Lies/Tuakiri Huna , in early 2013, and Michelle Joy Lloyd's Sunday ,   which premiered last weekend. In what's believed to be a world first, in a carefully designed multiplatform release by Dustin Clare and Michelle as distributors (Fighting Noise),  Sunday opened simultaneously across more than twenty New Zealand cinemas, on television and the internet, on DVD and on airlines. Until now, Michelle was best known as producer of the internationally acclaimed Open Source film project Stray Cinema , which she founded in 2006 while living in Wellington. She produced and directed the first round of Stray Cinema film footage shot in London and screened at the first Stray Cinema screening event in London, 2007. Starring Dustin Clare and Camille Keenan, two award-winning Australasian actors, Sunday 's a relationship drama in the v...