Uploaded February 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Explore the multifaceted career of Ian Mune — actor, director, teacher, and unapologetic local film critic with ‘The Life of Ian’ ✨️
With candid yarns and rare footage from the ’70s, this documentary offers a warm, sometimes cheeky look at a true icon of New Zealand’s screen history. He revisits his early theatrical stomping grounds and talks about how acting with Sam Neill in the breakthrough movie ‘Sleeping Dogs’ taught him “to stop pulling faces”.
🎥 Watch the full doco and dive a little deeper into Mune’s brilliance via The Ian Mune Collection at NZ On Screen.
Explore the multifaceted career of Ian Mune — actor, director, teacher, and unapologetic local film critic with ‘The Life of Ian’ ✨️
With candid yarns and rare footage from the ’70s, this documentary offers a warm, sometimes cheeky look at a true icon of New Zealand’s screen history. He revisits his early theatrical stomping grounds and talks about how acting with Sam Neill in the breakthrough movie ‘Sleeping Dogs’ taught him “to stop pulling faces”.
🎥 Watch the full doco and dive a little deeper into Mune’s brilliance via The Ian Mune Collection at NZ On Screen.
