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His other feature film roles include '''A Song of Good'''<ref>[http://www.asongofgood.com/ ''A SONG OF GOOD – Feature Film'']</ref>, '''Christmas'''<ref>[http://www.filmarchive.org.nz/feature-project/pages/Christmas.php ''CHRISTMAS'' – Feature Film'']</ref>, '''Stringer'''<ref>[http://www.stringerthefilm.com/ ''STRINGER'' – Feature Film'']</ref> and '''Woodenhead'''<ref>[http://www.woodenhead.co.nz/ ''WOODENHEAD'' – Feature Film'']</ref> as well as more than twenty short films. |
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Revision as of 02:09, 15 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]. 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[3].
Out of the Blue is a New Zealand film directed by Robert Sarkies. The film premiered at the Toronto Film Festival and was released to minor controversy; but became one of the top ten highest grossing New Zealand films.[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 feature film roles 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: New Zealand Agent
- Matthew Sunderland: Internet Movie Database
- Out of the Blue at Rotten Tomatoes
- Out of the Blue: The Aramoana Tragedy
References
- ^ Matthew Sunderland – Actor IMDB
- ^ Best Actor Award – 2008 Awards
- ^ Aramoana Massacre
- ^ Aramoana film cracks $1 million - 14 Dec 2006 - NZ Herald: Life & Style News and Reviews from New Zealand and around the World
- ^ A SONG OF GOOD – Feature Film
- ^ CHRISTMAS – Feature Film
- ^ STRINGER – Feature Film
- ^ WOODENHEAD – Feature Film