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),...
Award-winning university professor, film-maker, author and illustrator, Welby Ings, has been a gay activist since the 1970s when he was outed and expelled from Te Awamutu College. He talks to express about marching in Hero, queer clichés and telling stories from Aotearoa’s queer history.
As an educationalist is there anything...