
Directing
Roseanne Liang
New Zealand
Roseanne Liang is a Chinese-New Zealand film director. Her first feature film, My Wedding and Other Secrets, was the first theatrically-released feature film made by a Chinese New Zealander, and became 2011's highest grossing local feature film in New Zealand. In 2020 Liang directed (and partially wrote) Shadow in the Cloud, a World War II fantasy/adventure film.
Acting credits
6.3One-time Maori speed-chess champ, Genesis Potini, lives with a bi-polar disorder and must overcome prejudice and violence in the battle to save his struggling chess club, his family and ultimately, himself.
The Dark Horse
2014
6.6Is horror a man’s world? You might assume so – but you won’t be thinking that way for long once you investigate the vast contribution women have made to horror movies for well over a century. In 2020, award-winning Australian critic Alexandra Heller-Nicholas released the definitive book on the subject: 1000 Women in Horror, 1895–2018, an encyclopaedic work celebrating the many women – filmmakers, actors, producers and technicians – who have shaped the genre since the moment cinema’s light first flickered.
1000 Women in Horror
2025
Behind the camera
5.8A WWII pilot traveling with top secret documents on a B-17 Flying Fortress encounters an evil presence on board the flight.
Shadow in the Cloud
2021
5.8A WWII pilot traveling with top secret documents on a B-17 Flying Fortress encounters an evil presence on board the flight.
Shadow in the Cloud
2021
NRIngeniously unfolding three tales in unison, Take 3 follows a trio of young asian-Kiwi actors on one horrifying day of auditions.
Take 3
2008
NRIngeniously unfolding three tales in unison, Take 3 follows a trio of young asian-Kiwi actors on one horrifying day of auditions.
Take 3
2008
4.4A journey through a cultural minefield, navigating the divide between the traditional values of immigrant parents and the contemporary aspirations of their children in a new land.
My Wedding and Other Secrets
2011
4.4A journey through a cultural minefield, navigating the divide between the traditional values of immigrant parents and the contemporary aspirations of their children in a new land.
My Wedding and Other Secrets
2011
6.7An intimate portrait of a Chinese-European couple in New Zealand, and their journey to get a blessing for marriage from traditional Chinese parents. The story that led to the film, My Wedding and Other Secrets.
Banana in a Nutshell
2005
10.0On a cold and lonely night, a hapless driver stops to investigate an isolated rest stop. He finds himself caught in a series of deadly accidents…
Rest Stop
2004
7.33am. Hongjing, China. 1980s. A single-minded surgeon is forced to break her physician's oath when violent gangsters storm into a hospital to stop a crucial operation.
Do No Harm
2017
7.33am. Hongjing, China. 1980s. A single-minded surgeon is forced to break her physician's oath when violent gangsters storm into a hospital to stop a crucial operation.
Do No Harm
2017
