Burning Yearning (1989)

Release Date: 1989-01-01
Runtime: 0h 6min
Production Country: New Zealand
Director: Bob Stenhouse

This short animated comedy offers up a pre-Wellywood tale of Hollywood coming down under. In the fictional West Coast town of Whatawhopa, a horror movie film crew has arrived to take advantage of the town's persistent rain. When the forecast fails, the town’s lazy fire fighters — “burning and yearning for a fire”— are finally sparked into action.