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Learn about the career and works of David Blyth, a pioneer of New Zealand film and horror. Explore his films, documentaries, awards, interviews, and more.
Kiwi cult director David Blyth’s “alien abduction musical” Night Freaks has its New Zealand premiere in Auckland next Saturday night. Earlier this year, he talked about the film’s debut in...
Director David Blyth has created some of New Zealand's most graphic and challenging movies dealing with horror, sexuality, and the sub-conscious mind.
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David Blyth is a filmmaker born in 1956 in Auckland, New Zealand. He has directed and written movies such as Night Freaks, My Grandpa Is a Vampire and Death Warmed Up.
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David Blyth is a Microsoft employee and a Power Platform Solution Architect with experience in education and security. He shares his work, events, and insights on LinkedIn, where he has over 500 connections and 1K followers.
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David Blyth cemented his place in the Kiwi filmmaking renaissance with two films that left social realism far behind: 1978 experimental feature Angel Mine, and 1984's Death Warmed Up, New Zealand's first homegrown horror movie.
In the late 70s, some months before he directed his first feature, Angel Mine, David Blyth went with cameraman John Earnshaw to an Auckland International Film Festival screening of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s El Topo, a celebration of the cinema of the unconscious.
