The Insatiable Moon

Rawiri Paratene Honoured

Mike Riddell — Sun, 30 Dec 2012 22:56:05 +0000

It is with huge delight that The Insatiable Moon team joins with the rest of the people of Aotearoa – New Zealand in honouring Rawiri Paratene, named today an Officer of the NZ Order of Merit for services to film, television, and theatre. Seldom in the history of such awards has there been a more worthy [...]

Citizen Tom

Mike Riddell — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 21:06:47 +0000

The Insatiable Moon congratulates legendary cinematographer Thomas Burstyn on becoming a New Zealand citizen. The extraordinary skills he brought to filming our feature, and his generous spirit, will be a welcome gift to our people. Haere mai Tom!

The Unknown Sleeper

Mike Riddell — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 01:11:47 +0000

The recent death of a man has caused me to reflect on all those nameless people who have been lost along the road of life. Robbie died in a care home run by wonderful people with generous hearts. It was the same house that featured as Bob’s Boarding House in The Insatiable Moon. In [...]

World Mental Health Awareness Day

Mike Riddell — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 19:18:36 +0000

Today (10th October) is 2012 World Mental Health Awareness Day. Here in New Zealand we take a whole week to focus on issues around mental health so have already been under way for a few days. But this day is the one observed throughout the world. It’s a good time to focus on what constitutes [...]

Moon in the US of A

Mike Riddell — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 07:23:44 +0000

On September 6th, we’re proud to announce that The Insatiable Moon will feature at the NARPA (National Associaton for Rights Protection and Advocacy) in Cincinnati. The screening to this huge conference based around the rights of people with lived experience of mental distress will be chaired by Sarah Knutson, who has put in the hard work [...]

Moon on Maori TV

Mike Riddell — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 21:10:04 +0000

We’re delighted that The Insatiable Moon will be screening on Maori Television this Sunday 12th August at 9.00pm, immediately followed by Lunatic: Destigmatizing Mental Illness with Arthur of Ponsonby. In the months leading up to shooting the film, naysayers were thick on the ground. In the midst of it all, Manutai Schuster and her team from [...]

Green goodness of the earth

Mike Riddell — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 21:28:44 +0000

Arthur has lots of friends around the world – all of them bringing love and beauty into the world in surprising ways. Take ten minutes of your life to hear something of the story of Paul Pulford (Scruffy), and gain a little inspiration. You can find it here: http://youtu.be/kNPEy9xQHY0

In-flight Moonies

Mike Riddell — Wed, 16 May 2012 23:51:03 +0000

Huge thanks to Air New Zealand for being one of our biggest supporters. They’ve had The Insatiable Moon screening on international flights for more than a year now. We get a constant stream of emails from people who’ve seen the film there and enjoyed it. It helps to keep the movie before an audience, and has [...]

On movies and the making of them

Mike Riddell — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 02:52:52 +0000

A term often thrown about is that a film crew is like a ‘small army’. This description may reveal depths of meaning that are not immediately apparent. The process of movie making normally means that a large production team descends on a neighbourhood like a gang of avenging Goths intent on plunder. The story has [...]

Hola Espana!

Mike Riddell — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 03:05:51 +0000

As an invited film from New Zealand, The Insatiable Moon will screen at the 11th Imagineindia Film Festival in Madrid. On 23 May 2012, the film will be shown at the prestigious Sala Berlanga cinema, described by the festival director as “the best cinema in Spain”. The festival has a particular interest in films from India, [...]