Fool's Gold

In 1938 Orson Welles famously fooled radio listeners into believing the United States was under attack from aliens. New Zealand’s War of the Worlds moment arguably came in 1995, when directors Costa Botes and Peter Jackson unleashed legendary filmmaker Colin McKenzie on an audience of unsuspecting patriots. Forgotten Silver joined a sly tradition of on screen Kiwi leg pulling: from debaucherous Oamaru to turkeys in gumboots, fence-playing farmer musicians, phallic molluscs and Māori porn stars.