Doug edits tv and film, plays drums for Climate Change, wrote and directed the feature film Jake, and in 2014 got his MA in Creative Writing at the IIML. He's also unhealthily obsessed with film and music and has been writing about both for most of his adult life. Follow him on Twitter @dillamonster.
Twenty-six years after The Piano, Doug Dillaman goes to Cannes and finds that New Zealand films are conspicuously nowhere to be seen.
Already a lover of cinema and the sea, Doug Dillaman considers Dr. Erika Balsom's new book and curatorial projects within a wider world of watery imagery on screen.
Doug Dillaman and the unlikely, unconventional and uncommon family as featured in the New Zealand International Film Festival.
Nearing the start of the New Zealand International Film Festival, Doug Dillaman considers what role the festival plays in this changing era of film.
All good things must come to an end. And so should auteur theory, if cinema is to advance.
Doug Dillaman considers the elusive character of Julian Assange in Risk at this years New Zealand International Film Festival.
The Pantograph Punch is delighted to present Faces, Places as part of the 2017 New Zealand International Film Festival. Ahead of the films debut Doug Dillaman considers the illustrious Agnès Varda, the woman behind it all.
Cannes at home! While you obviously can’t watch the same films, the competition’s full established auteurs with rich filmographies. Why not put together a watch-along plan?
Doug Dillaman on the documentaries you can't miss at this year's DocEdge Festival.
Doug Dillaman gets the inside perspective from Brian Boyd while digging into MONA’s bold attempt to present great art that advances evolutionary theories of its origin – or is it the other way around?
Join Doug Dillaman and Jacob Powell – joined by Metro film writer David Larsen – as they go head-to-head for the Best Worst Podcast wrap-up of the Festival in 2016.
Doug Dillaman reports back from week 3 of the NZIFF
Bold, bracing and highly accomplished, punk-rock lockdown thriller Green Room cuts close to the bone. For those who can stomach it, Jeremy Saulnier’s film delivers an authentic, unsettling experience.
Doug Dillaman on four convention-busting NZIFF documentaries.
Doug Dillaman reviews Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, 1 March 2013, Auckland.