Double Cove, Hong Kong

Double Cove, Hong Kong

May 20 2015

In April Hong Kong director Alfred Hau, shot a spot with Big Pictures in Glenorchy and at Muruwai, on Auckland’s west coast for mega Hong Kong property company, Henderson Land Development Company. The commercial advertises stages four and five of Henderson’s huge apartment complex at Double Cove Hong Hong and was produced with ...

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Yili Milk shoot for China

Yili Milk shoot for China

Apr 14 2015

Roland Dan directed a new spot for China’s largest milk producer, Yili. The production company was Filmate from Shanghai China, working with Big Pictures and local DP, Sigi Spath. The location was a dairy farm in North Otago, near Oamaru.  

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Anchor Milk for China

Anchor Milk for China

Apr 13 2015

Taiwan’s Studio Romance shot a commercial for Anchor Milk in New Zealand with Big Pictures in September. The director was Hwang Jung-Shen and agency DDB Shanghai. The commercial features local Queenstown cast and was shot principally on a dairy farm in Northern Southland.

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How Bizarre

How Bizarre

Oct 08 2014

Stuart Page’s brilliant documentary “How Bizarre” screened on Maori Television on August 25. The film tells the rags to riches story of Māori/Niuean artist Pauly Fuemana, who achieved huge, and sudden, international success with the song How Bizarre in 1995. The best selling album of the same name turned out to be ...

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Canon “Full Framers”

Canon “Full Framers”

May 15 2014

Film Factory Hong Kong and director Louis Ng returned to New Zealand in May to shoot a campaign for Canon. The spots featured professional people using Canon’s range of full frame (35mm) sensor cameras in the course of their work. Featured locations included Queenstown’s infamous Skippers Canyon road; the snow covered summit of the ...

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Lipton Iced Tea “Zorb”

Lipton Iced Tea “Zorb”

Jan 15 2014

Stink directing duo, NeO, shot a campaign for Lipton Iced Tea with Big Pictures at the start of the southern summer. The commercials were made with adam&eveDDB London and featured an epic cross town journey by two ‘zorbers’ keen to escape soaring temperatures and traffic gridlock to get to the beach and a refreshing bevy. The ...

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Vodafone “Lake”

Vodafone “Lake”

May 28 2014

Frederic Planchon shot a quietly seductive commercial for Vodafone with Big Pictures in April. A woman (well known French actress, Laure Marsac) is enjoying a relaxed moment of solitude when the mood is interrupted by a phone call. She ignores it. Despite the sparse script the commercial has a beautiful cinematic quality. The commercial was ...

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Epic shoot for Samsung

Epic shoot for Samsung

Mar 24 2013

Rock star director, Romain Gavras, led this epic Samsung “Charge” commercial shot on an Auckland west coast beach during the New Zealand summer. The commercial features a cast of hundreds, all in full costume. But the climax has to be the bone crunching car stunt that occurs mid charge. Big Pictures worked with Somesuch & Co and CHI ...

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Yili Milk

Yili Milk

Mar 24 2013

Super star Chinese singer Faye Wong returned to New Zealand for the second time in twelve months to shoot a series of spots for an on going campaign by Chinese milk producer, Yili Group. This time the location was a dairy farm in the Waikato district, south of Auckland. Big Pictures worked with Millenium Films and Euro RSCG Beijing on the ...

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Canon 6D “Lightest, strongest”

Canon 6D “Lightest, strongest”

Mar 24 2013

Top Hong Kong director Louis Ng and the Film Factory captured the story of a climber preparing to take on a high altitude Himalayan climb with his Canon EOS 6D camera. The commercial was shot on location in the Southern Alps near Queenstown using local climbers as support. View

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