Sam Pillsbury
Sam Pillsbury's The Scarecrow was the first Kiwi movie to win invitation to the prestigious Cannes Film Festival. Starting at government filmmaking body the Natonal Film Unit, the part-Kiwi, part-American dlrector worked in documentary — including helming the controversial Birth with Dr. R.D. Laing — before making a run of feature films and TV movies, both in New Zealand and North America.
Big money and big talk don’t make good films. Wit, style, dedication, passion, commitment and conviction make good films... Sam Pillsbury, in a 1982 Listener interview
Sam Pillsbury: Quiet and crooked earth...
Interview, 2010
Crooked Earth
2001, Director - Film
Numero Bruno
2000, Subject - Television
Starlight Hotel
1987, Director - Film
Heart of the High Country - First Episode
1985, Director - Television
The Quiet Earth
1985, Writer, Producer - Film
Goodbye Pork Pie
1981, First Assistant Director - Film
The Scarecrow
1981, Director, Associate Producer, Writer - Film
The Greatest Run on Earth
1980, Writer, Producer, Director - Television
Against the Lights
1978, Director, Writer, Producer - Television
Birth with Dr. R.D. Laing
1977, Director - Television
Men and Super Men
1975, Director, Writer, Editor - Short Film
Ralph Hotere
1974, Editor, Writer, Director - Short Film
Games 74
1974, Director - Film
Wahine Day
1973, Editor, Writer, Director - Short Film
Gone up North for a While
1972, Assistant Director, Editor - Television