Film to start shooting in NZ

A major motion picture starring leading British actor Ray Winstone starts shooting next week in New Zealand.

Tracker stars Winstone who featured in the Oscar-winning Martin Scorsese film The Departed and New Zealander Temuera Morrison of Once Were Warriors, as a Boer War soldier and a Maori seafarer. The soldier i s hunting for a bounty.

Englishman Ian Sharp directs the film described as a tense action thriller.

Part of the shooting will take place in scenic mountain areas near Queenstown from mid-November.

Tracker is a British and New Zealand co-production.