The Red House

Director Alyx Duncan set out to make an experimental documentary about her childhood home. What eventually resulted was this acclaimed and award-winning "fictional essay", her first full length feature. Blurring the line between documentary and drama, she cast her conservationist father and Chinese born step-mother as characters partially based on themselves. As they journey from a small NZ island to a big Chinese city, Duncan examines their cross cultural relationship and explores nostalgia, childhood, dreams, environmentalism, globalisation and the meaning of home.

Is home the place you are from, or what you carry inside you wherever you go?

– Tagline

Key Cast & Crew

Alyx Duncan

Director, Producer, Writer, Camera

Meng Jia Stuart

As: Jia

Lee Stuart

As: Lee, Script Collaborator

John Downie

Script Collaborator, Story Advisor

Han Niu

Script Collaborator

Catherine Bisley

Script Collaborator