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* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0839146/ ''Matthew Sunderland: Internet Movie Database''] |
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* [http://www.fighttimes.com/magazine/magazine.asp?article=576 Out of the Blue: The Aramoana Tragedy] An interview with Robert Sarkies |
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*[http://www.nzfilm.co.nz/film_catalogue/features/latest_feature_films/OUT_OF_THE_BLUE_569.aspx NZFC profile] |
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Revision as of 23:26, 14 September 2008
Matthew Sunderland is a New Zealand actor.
Matthew Sunderland performed the lead role of David Gray in the internationally acclaimed Feature Film Out of the Blue (2006 film) and won Best Actor Award for this role at the New Zealand Screen Awards in 2008 [2].
Out of the Blue is a 2006 New Zealand film directed by Robert Sarkies. The film premiered at the 2006 Toronto Film Festival in Canada and was released in New Zealand on October 12th 2006 to minor controversy. The film became one of the top ten highest grossing New Zealand films.[3] On November 13th 1990, in the small New Zealand seaside town of Aramoana, local man David Gray took a high-powered automatic weapon and shot dead 13 people. It remains the worst mass murder in New Zealand's history[4].
Sunderland was also nominated for a Best Actor Award in the 2006 NZ Screen Awards for Nature’s Way, which screened In Competition at the Cannes Film Festival in 2006.
His other films include A Song of Good[5], Christmas[6], Stringer[7] and Woodenhead[8] as well as more than twenty short films.
Sunderland graduated from The New Zealand Drama School Toi Whakaari in 1997 and has concentrated on New Zealand film work with excursions into Auckland theatre.
He has appeared at the Silo Theatre (Fool for Love, Blasted), and the Herald Theatre (Trainspotting) in Auckland, and the Court Theatre in Christchurch (Peninsula) .
External links
- Matthew Sunderland: Internet Movie Database
- Out of the Blue at Rotten Tomatoes
- Out of the Blue: The Aramoana Tragedy An interview with Robert Sarkies
- NZFC profile
References
- ^ Matthew Sunderland – Actor IMDB
- ^ Best Actor Award – 2008 Awards
- ^ Aramoana film cracks $1 million - 14 Dec 2006 - NZ Herald: Life & Style News and Reviews from New Zealand and around the World
- ^ Aramoana Massacre
- ^ A SONG OF GOOD – Feature Film
- ^ CHRISTMAS – Feature Film
- ^ STRINGER – Feature Film
- ^ WOODENHEAD – Feature Film