Colin McKenzie

Colin McKenzie joins Rudall Hayward and Ted Coubray as one of the earliest New Zealanders to make feature films on Kiwi soil. McKenzie was a technical innovator, responsible for a number of international filmmaking firsts. His unfinished epic Salome finally premiered in 1995, six decades after his death.

Here was this unknown genius who died in obscurity, and now belongs in the pantheon of great cinema artists and innovators. American film critic Leonard Maltin