Mia Blake
Acting
Biography
Mia Blake is a Tongan–New Zealand actress renowned for her extensive body of work across film, screen, and theatre. Notably, she garnered multiple awards for her outstanding performance in the lead role of Director Toa Fraser's acclaimed feature "No.2" and the short film "This is Her." Her diverse film credits include "The Tattooist," "6 Days," "Without a Paddle" and "Stray." In her latest television venture, she graced the screen in TVNZ's series "After the Party" alongside Robyn Malcolm and Peter Mullan, following previous appearances in "One Lane Bridge" and "Shortland Street." Mia's theatrical contributions are equally remarkable, featuring lead roles in productions for The Silo Theatre, including "A Streetcar Named Desire," "Angels in America," "White Rabbit, Red Rabbit," and most recently, "Upu Mai Whetu."
Known For
When a heartbroken New Yorker moves to London hoping for a love story, she falls for an indie musician who's anything but the typical romantic hero.
Too Much
Penny’s world implodes when she accuses her husband Phil of a sex crime against her daughter’s teenage friend and nobody believes her.
After the Party
Three friends, whose lives have been drifting apart, reunite for the funeral of a fourth childhood friend. When looking through their childhood belongings, they discover a trunk which contained details on a quest their friend was attempting. It revealed that he was hot on the trail of the $200,000 that went missing with airplane hijacker D.B. Cooper in 1971. They decide to continue his journey, but do not understand the dangers they will soon encounter.
Without a Paddle
London, England, April 1980. Six terrorists assault the Embassy of Iran and take hostages. For six days, tense negotiations are held while the authorities decide whether a military squad should intervene.
6 Days
During a murder investigation in Queenstown, an ambitious young detective reawakens a spiritual gift that endangers the case, his career and his life.
One Lane Bridge
American tattoo artist Jake Sawyer wanders the world, exploring and exploiting ethnic themes in his tattoo designs. At a tattoo expo in Singapore, he gets his first glimpse at the exotic world of traditional Samoan tattoo (tatau), and, in a thoughtless act, unwittingly unleashes a powerful angry spirit. In his devastating journey into Pacific mysticism, Jake must find a way to save his new love, Sina and recover his own soul.
The Tattooist
A matriarch organizes a feast with her family, in which she will name her successor. The heart has gone out of Nanna Maria's family. There are no parties — they don't even fight anymore...
No. 2
In a cold and remote landscape, two strangers struggle to repair their broken pasts. A young man is on parole after serving time for attempting to murder the man who killed his girlfriend in a hit and run. A woman is released from a psychiatric facility far from her homeland. These two damaged strangers cross paths in the mountains in winter and fall into a complex intimate relationship, putting to the test their capacity to trust and heal.
Stray
For the last two years, Ben has watched his best friend Phil have a sickeningly fantastic relationship with Maryann, the woman Phil snatched from under his nose. When Phil says he’s moving to Australia, this ‘perfect’ relationship starts to fall apart. Maryann asks Ben to fix things up. Unfortunately the more time Ben spends with Maryann, the more he’s attracted to her.
Hopeless
When a welfare department’s insidious prejudice can no longer be tolerated, a group of unlikely heroes band together against a narrow-minded caseworker.
Payback
On a beach road, a teenage boy and his mother hit something with their car - she insists it was nothing, but as the night unfolds the boy begins to doubt her story.