Souvenir Programmes

Until 2007 the Film Festival was proud to produce and sell a handsome annual souvenir catalogue containing full credits, extended notes and carefully selected imagery for every film screened. Programme notes combined selections (scrupulously attributed) from the world's liveliest film critics with original contributions from the Festival's programmers and invited local writers. The intention was less to market the films we'd chosen than to put a finger on what it was that made each particular film worth attending.

Demand for the publication fell as good film information became increasingly available on the internet at exactly the same time as our printing and production costs were rising. We mourn the loss of our publication, but we remain very proud of what we achieved. We recommend our back copies as vivid memory joggers, handy references and valuable, good-looking additions to any movie-loving New Zealander's bookshelf.

Click on the following links to find out more about each of these back catalogue Souvenir Programmes.

Placing Your Order

If you would like to purchase one of these stunning Souvenir Programmes please place your order by printing off the Order Form below, complete and send to NZ Film Festival Trust, PO Box 9544, Marion Square, Wellington 6141. Alternatively you can fax the form to 04 801 7304 or email us at souvenir@nzff.co.nz.

The Telecom 2007 New Zealand International Film Festivals

Perfect bound 208 pages 250mm x 175mm.  Full colour.  Edited by Richard King. Designed and produced by Rose Miller and Chris Boulden. Cover design by Matt Bluett, Ocean Design.

Special features include:

  • Retrospective: 70s Mavericks

Special discounted price: $12.50

The Telecom 2006 New Zealand International Film Festivals

Perfect bound 224 pages and approx 250mm x 175mm. Full colour. Edited by Bill Gosden.  Designed and produced by Rose Miller. Cover design by Matt Bluett, Ocean Design. Illustration by Stephen Fuller.

This is a superb edition with many extended pieces;


Special discounted price: $10.00

The Telecom 2005 New Zealand International Film Festivals

Perfect bound 192 pages and approx 250mm x 175mm. Full colour. Edited by Bill Gosden.  Designed and produced by Rose Miller. Cover design by Matt Bluett, Ocean Design.

Highlights include: 

Special discounted price: $10.00

The Telecom 2004 New Zealand International Film Festivals

Perfect bound 192 pages 250mm x 175mm. Full colour. Edited by Bill Gosden.  Designed and produced by Rose Miller. Cover design by Matt Bluett, Ocean Design. Illustration by Rebecca ter Borg. 


Special discounted price of $10.00

The 2003 New Zealand International Film Festivals

Perfect bound 192 pages and approx 250mm x 175mm. B&W and colour.Edited by Bill Gosden. Designed and produced by Rose Miller. Cover design by Penny Hall, Ocean Design.

Special discounted price: $10.00

The 2002 New Zealand International Film Festivals

Perfect bound 192 pages and approx 250mm x 175mm. B&W and colour.Edited by Bill Gosden.  Designed and produced by Rose Miller. Cover design by Penny Hall, Ocean Design.

  • One national brand to rule them all. It was the perfect year for unprecedented interference from the Society for the Promotion of Ignorance and Fear who attempted and failed to block opening night screenings of Y tu máma también and The Piano Teacher.
  • Bill Gosden writes about Chop Suey (Bruce Weber) 

  • Piracy! Celebrated by Michael McDonnell and Sandra Reid
Special discounted price: $10.00

The 2001 New Zealand Film Festival

Perfect bound 176 pages and approx. 250mm x 175mm. Edited by Bill Gosden and Matthew Savage. Front cover art by Paul Hooker. Back Cover art by Angela Lane for 25th Dunedin International Film Festival. Includes poster art by Gerad Taylor for 30th Wellington Film Festival.

  • AtanarjuatYi Yi,  Elvis: That's the Way It Is. A wonderful programme, but numbers are way down. Time to rebrand. Good-bye, elephants and penguins. No more in-jokes on our posters after this one. (Yeah, right.)
Special discounted price: $10.00

The 2000 New Zealand Film Festival

Perfect bound 176 pages and approx. 250mm x 175mm. Colour and B&W. Edited by Bill Gosden and Jackie Hay. Front cover art by Gerad Taylor. Back Cover art by Angela Lane for 24th Dunedin International Film Festival. Includes poster art by Paul Hooker for 29th Wellington Film Festival and 32nd Auckland International Film Festival.

  • Paradise Regained. Colour spread celebrating the Festival's return to the gloriously refurbished Civic.


Special discounted price: $10.00

The 1999 New Zealand Film Festival (SOLD OUT)

Perfect bound 176 pages and approx. 230 x 145mm. Colour and B&W. Edited by Bill Gosden and Jonathan King. Front cover art by Paul Hooker. Includes poster art by Gerad Taylor for 23rd Dunedin International Film and 28thWellington Film Festival.  

The 1998 New Zealand Film Festival

Perfect bound 176 pages and approx. 230 x 145mm. Colour and B&W. Edited by Bill Gosden and Jo Mackay. Front cover art by Jeremy Bennett. Includes poster art by Gerad Taylor for 22nd Dunedin International Film and 30th Auckland International Film Festival.  

  • Enter the Dude: The Big Lebowski makes its first appearance. Not everyone at the Fay, Richwhite Gala screening is pleased to make his acquaintance. Mrs Dalloway and Artemesia are also hits.
  • Interview with Anthony McCarten (Via Satellite

  • Interview with Niki Caro (Memory and Desire

  • Interview with Sima Urale (Velvet Dreams)

  • Retrospective: Len Lye: Free Radical. Three programmes curated by Jonathan Dennis

  • Mouth Wide Open (Jonathan Dennis) Diane Pivac on Ted Coubray 

  • Russell Campbell on Cecil Holmes. 

  • The films of avant-garde artist Man Ray, presented by Jean-Michel Bohours, Centre Georges Pompidou

  • Ross Somerville on Richter, the Enigma (Bruno Monsaingeon)

Special discounted price: $10.00

The 1997 New Zealand Film Festival

Perfect bound 176 pages and approx. 230 x 145mm. Colour and B&W. Edited by Bill Gosden and Mark Amery. Front cover art by Jeremy Bennett. Includes poster art by Gerad Taylor for 21st Dunedin International Film and 29th Auckland International Film Festival; and by John Kelleher for 21st Christchurch International Film Festival.

  • The Pleasure of Mr Hitchcock. Four great Hitchcock movies introduced by Bill Gosden.

  • Films by E.A. Dupont introduced by Jonathan Dennis

  • Picture Palaces on the splendour of the St James (Auckland), Embassy (Wellington) and Regent (Dunedin) Theatres. 

  • Mark Amery on O Amor Natural (Heddy Honigmann) 

  • Richard Bealing on The Winners (Paul Cohen)

  • Mexican Visions: Films by Chick Strand selected by Jonathan Dennis

Special discounted price: $10.00

The 1996 Wellington Film Festvial and Auckland International Film Festival

Perfect bound 176 pages approx. 230 x 145mm. Colour B&W. Edited by Bill Gosden and Mark Cubey. Wellington edition has cover illustration by Jeremy Bennett. Auckland gets its first Souvenir Programme. Auckland edition cover by Geoffrey Notman.

  • Under the Macrocarpas: The Alan Roberts Collection from the New Zealand Film Archive

  • Fifty Years of Film Societies. Recollections from Wynne Colgan (Shhh! This is Art) and John O'Shea (Dear Miss Rutter)

Special discounted price: $10.00

1995 Wellington Film Festival

Perfect bound 160 pages approx. 230 x 145mm. B&W. Edited by Bill Gosden. Cover illustration by Gerad Taylor. Production by Wellington Media Collective.  This is an elegant document.

  • Chungking Express, Satantango, Petits Arrangements avec la mortThis was a year replete with great movies, but short of popular hits (Clerks,Six Degrees of Separation). The New Zealand Federation of Film Societies, long-time backers of the Festival, set up the New Zealand Film Festival Trust to insulate themselves from such losses in the future.

  • The Young Ones of their Day: seven French directors make a film set the year they turned eighteen. This wonderful series contains classic, now hard-to-see films by Olivier Assayas, Claire Denis, Chantal Akerman. Unfortunately the announcement of resumed nuclear testing at Muroroa impacted unfavourably on festival-goers' appetites for brilliant French filmmaking.

  • Scary Women: lining up the femme fatales of classic Hollywood

  • The films of Gustav Machaty
  • Classic British documentaries by Humphrey Jennings 
  • Maya Deren
Special discounted price: $10.00

1994 Wellington Film Festival

Perfect bound 160 pages approx. 230 x 145mm. B&W. Edited by Bill Gosden. Cover illustration by Debe Mansfield. Production by Wellington Media Collective. 


Special discounted price: $10.00

1993 Wellington Film Festival

Perfect bound 148 pages approx. 230 x 145mm. B&W. Edited by Bill Gosden. Cover illustration by Debe Mansfield. Production by Wellington Media Collective. 

  • Gaylene Preston's Bread and Roses

  • 5 x Buster Keaton. What happiness.

  • Orson Welles does Shakespeare and Kafka

  • Pioneer animator Ladislaw Starewicz 

  • Tribes of Southern California: documentaries by Jean-Pierre Gorin 
  • Our first ever Minnie Cooper ad
Special discounted price: $7.50

1992 Wellington Film Festival

Perfect bound 120 pages approx. 230 x 145mm. B&W. Edited by Bill Gosden. Cover design by Catherine Callaghan. Illustration by Geofrrey Notman. Production by Wellington Media Collective. 

  • Altman's The Player opens the Festival. Censorship is news. First appearances by Wong Kar-wai (Days of Being Wild) and Lars Von Trier(Zentropa); an indelibly creepy Nosferatu score performed by Joachim Barenz and Suzanne Warner

  • F. W. Murnau retrospective curated by Jonathan Dennis

  • International Rocketship Retrospective 

  • Bill Gosden on the banning of Henry Portrait of a Serial Killer 
Special discounted price: $7.50

1991 Wellington Film Festival

Staple bound 102 pages approx. 230 x 145mm. B&W. Edited by Bill Gosden. Cover illustration by Paul Densem. Production by Wellington Media Collective. 

  • Zhang Yimou's Ju Dou opens the Festival. Takeshi Kitano's The Violent Cop and Boiling Point venture out of Japan. Pump Up the Volume andAkiraTruth or Dare: in Bed with Madonna is a hit and there are those today who say the decline started there.

  • Barry Barclay's Te Rua

  • Three films by Kira Muratova
  • Tribute to Asta Nielsen. Jonathan Dennis-curated tribute to the great Danish star of early cinema. 

  • Films by Su Friedrich introduced by Bill Gosden

Special discounted price: $7.50

1990 Wellington Film Festival

Staple bound 102 pages approx. 230 x 145mm. B&W. Edited by Bill Gosden. Cover illustration by Paul Densem. Production by Wellington Media Collective. 


Special discounted price: $7.50

Perfect bound 176 pages and approx. 230 x 145mm. Colour and B&W. Edited by Bill Gosden and Mark Amery. Front cover art by Jeremy Bennett. Includes poster art by Gerad Taylor for 21st Dunedin International Film and 29th Auckland International Film Festival; and by John Kelleher for 21st Christchurch International Film Festival.

  • The Pleasure of Mr Hitchcock. Four great Hitchcock movies introduced by Bill Gosden.

  • Films by E.A. Dupont introduced by Jonathan Dennis

  • Picture Palaces on the splendour of the St James (Auckland), Embassy (Wellington) and Regent (Dunedin) Theatres. 

  • Mark Amery on O Amor Natural (Heddy Honigmann) 

  • Richard Bealing on The Winners (Paul Cohen)

  • Mexican Visions: Films by Chick Strand selected by Jonathan Dennis

Special discounted price: $10.00