Image: DVD cover for The Quiet Earth.
The origin story of the NZ film renaissance is very different from Australia though both were very masculine. One of its key figures was Geoff Murphy, who started as a trumpet player in a band called BLERTA created by Bruno Lawrence, and went on to write, direct and produce iconic films like Goodbye Pork Pie, Utu and The Quiet Earth, all between 1974 and 1985.
