Tag: Conan Hayes

Parental pressure, sexual perplexity and small-town bigotry are the simmering undercurrents of Kiwi filmmaker Welby Ings’ beautifully shot feature debut featuring Oscar Nominee Tim Roth. Punch premiered at last year’s NZ International Film Festival. Seventeen-year-old boxer Jim carries the hopes and dreams of his father on his shoulders, but his...

Starring Oscar-nominee Tim Roth alongside emerging Aotearoa talent Jordan Oosterhof and Conan Hayes, PUNCH, the new Kiwi film from renowned writer/director Welby Ings, is a pure gay love story, set on our clean-green shores. Rural life is not all ‘rainbow flags and Pride parades’ for young takatāpui, Whetu (Hayes),...