Writer-director Hamish Bennett won the best screenplay award in Macao for 'Bellbird,' his down-home story about a New Zealand farmer who grooms his reluctant son to take over the milk cows. By THR ...

The Bellbird is a compact, single-level tiny house designed for up to two people. Best suited for warmer climates, it encourages indoor/outdoor living via its porch and offers lots of optional ...

A tiny white bird in the northern Amazon has taken over the title of the world's loudest bird after scientists recorded its mating call hitting sound levels above the human pain threshold. The white ...

The Kiwi film Bellbird will be the first New Zealand film to make Te Reo Māori subtitles available to cinemas upon release. Bellbird is written and directed by Hamish Bennett and stars Annie Whittle, ...

Biologist Jeff Podos at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, with Mario Cohn-Haft at the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Brazil, report that they have recorded the loudest bird calls ...

The world's loudest bird has been confirmed to be the male white bellbird—not the screaming piha as previously thought. Although the male white bellbird usually sings at around 116 decibels (dB), when ...

Mild, mellow, and as life-affirming as a soft fall of springtime New Zealand rain, Hamish Bennett’s charming if overfamiliar debut feature “Bellbird” is a fondly bittersweet tribute to the rural ...