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PRODUCTION TEAM
Director :
Paul Middleditch
Script :
Martin Edmond
Photography :
Steve Arnold
Editor :
Heidi Kenessey
Cast :
Jeanette Cronin, Paul Kelman, Trent Atkinson, Angela Punch McGregor, Gillian Jones, Vince Gil, Eloise Etherington, Teo Gebert, Ritchie Singer
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TERRA NOVA
The parents of a 23-year-old woman commit their daughter to a psychiatric hospital during a severe post-natal depression. Released from the hospital, Ruth returns to the family home in New Zealand, gathers up her 4-year-old daughter Tuesday, and flees to Australia. Ruth and Tuesday find a place to live in Terra Nova, a low rent block of flats in a beach suburb. Trying to make a fresh start, Ruth finds a kindred soul in Simon, another Terra Nova tenant. They begin a relationship. Returning from work one day, Ruth is told she has had a visitor. She realizes that she has not yet escaped the apparent desire of her father to control her life and that she is once more in danger of losing her child to him. Ruth is faced with the seemingly impossible situation of having to justify herself as a human being, when her parents come to take Tuesday. She must find her own voice and make it heard.
Paul Middleditch
Born in Wellington, New Zealand in 1967, Paul Middelditch began making short films and videos while still at school, regularly winning prizes for his work. At 19 he directed Light of the Blade, a half-hour drama which won the directing award at the Clermont-Ferrand festival. He followed that with Tin Box, Where Did the Whites Go? and When Ships Draw Near. He has won numerous awards for his television commercials in New Zealand and Australia. TERRA NOVA marks his directorial debut in features.
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