Kerry Walker

Wealthy Peter Sterling and his younger wife Christine have an existence of little excitement so when a stranger comes into their lives, she is intrigued. An affair turns into much more and they are soon plotting to rob Peter of a precious gemstone.

Not only was The Piano – the story of a mute woman and her daughter trying to find love within an arranged marriage in settler-era New Zealand – a fine piece of film making, it also marked a key moment in the emergence of the local film industry as a viable player in a global sense.

An Australian-Italian teenager navigates her complicated family life and self-identity in director Kate Woods' adaptation of Melina Marchetta's coming-of-age novel.

Kate Winslet and Harvey Keitel star in Oscar-winning filmmaker Jane Campion's (The Piano) 1999 mind games tale set in the Australian outback.