Production Line produces quality hand-crafted programmes for television. We have filmed throughout New Zealand, France, Nepal, Malaysia and the United States on many varied projects. Below is a selection of Production Line produced documentaries.

TV / DOCUMENTARY / SERIES VIDEO TV COMMERCIALS FILM

TELEVISION

• BRUT FORCE
• Production Line | TVNZ ONE - 'Artsville'
• Producer/Director: Cosmo Kentish-Barnes, Filmed & Edited by Mike Kelland
• From the naive, the visionary and eccentric, to the obsessive, the institutional and the developmentally disabled, 'Brut Force' introduces viewers to a cross-section of contemporary New Zealand outsider-artists. This arts documentary expores non-mainstream talent and is both undeniably raw and moving.

• TOUCH WOOD
• Production Line | TVNZ ONE - 'Exposé'
• Producer/Director: Cosmo Kentish-Barnes, Filmed & Edited by Mike Kelland
• An intimate and personal journey into the strange world of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Innovatively crafted using a combination of candid portraits and creative animations that explore the inner worlds of those who suffer from OCD, Touch Wood is a humorous and moving exploration of this unusual mind disorder, making for compulsive viewing!
• 2007 Air New Zealand Screen Awards Finalist - 'Best Documentary', Selected for DocNZ International Film Festival 2006.
• Distributed Internationally by Beyond Distribution.
• Please click the 'Touch Wood' title graphic to play the trailer.

• LIFE ON THE STREET
• Production Line | TVNZ ONE - 'Documentary New Zealand'
• Producer/Director: Cosmo Kentish-Barnes, Filmed & Edited by Mike Kelland
• Narrated by Johnny, who lives in an abandoned pig shed by a railway line, this outstanding documentary meets his homeless acquaintances who are affected by alcoholism, drug addiction, mental illness and are all running from their troubled childhoods.
• "...The result is warm, humane and a compelling counter to the callous creed of Social Darwinists." - NZ Listener
• 2005 Qantas Television Awards Finalist - Mike Kelland 'Best Camera-Factual'
• Selected for DocNZ International Film Festival 2005.

• AMERICAN HIGHWAY
• TV3 - 6 part documentary series
• Producer/Director: Cosmo Kentish-Barnes, Filmed & Edited by Mike Kelland
• Young ex-pat Kiwi, Steve Lockie, travels 8000km's across the American heartland to be with the woman he loves. Steve drives the southern route from New York state to Tucson, Arizona, meeting an amazing cross-section of Americans, including a real hillbilly, cajun river dwellers, disgruntled truckies, cotton farmers and Roswell inhabitants. Laid-back and highly engrossing, the viewer is taken on a lovingly crafted road trip like no other.
• 2003 AFTA Award Finalist - 'Best Documentary Series' / 'Best Original Music' - Rockwood
• Please click the 'American Highway' title graphic to play the trailer.