Winners & Losers (New Zealand TV series)
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Winners & Losers is a 1976 New Zealand anthology television series showing a series of locally produced half hour long films. It was created by Roger Donaldson and Ian Mune.
Aardvark Films created a television adaptation of Katherine Mansfield's story "The Woman at the Store", airing in March 1975. Due to the success of this play they were able to make six more films under the title of Winners & Losers. Each play was an adaptation of a story from a well known New Zealand writer. The Woman at the Store was included in the series when it was sold at Cannes.
40 years after the production the films were all digitally restored, with work headed by Jon Newell, working with Mune, Donaldson and cinematographer Graeme Cowley.
Episodes
The Woman at the Store
Story by Katherine Mansfield, adapted by Peter Hansard and Ian Mune. Director: Roger Donaldson and Ian Mune
Three travellers encounter a woman and child. It stars Jeremy Stephens, Ian Mune, Ilona Rodgers, Ann Flannery and Niccola Sanderson
Shining with the Shiner
Story by John A. Lee, adapted by Roger Simpson.
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