Round 1: Tossup 15

A woman from this country who directed the documentary Patu! was often known simply as Merata. A kinetic sculptor from this country painted and scratched directly on film stock for the short films A Colour Box and Free Radicals. (15[1])Len Lye pioneered (-5[1])animation in this country, (15[1])where a director (-5[2])created a drug addict Vietnam vet frog, Heidi the Hippo, and other Jim Henson-esque puppets called the “Feebles” for a (15[1])1989 (15[1])film. (15[2])That director from this country made a film in which (15[2])Lord Crumb leads vomit-eating aliens. A 1992 film from this country required 300 liters of fake (*) blood for a scene in which a lawnmower obliterates zombies infected by a Sumatran rat-monkey. Letterboxd is headquartered in this country. Splatter films like Bad Taste and Braindead brought fame to a director from this country who had the Imperial War Museum’s (10[1])World War I footage colorized for the documentary They (10[1])Shall Not Grow Old. For 10 points, name this home country of Peter Jackson. ■END■

ANSWER: New Zealand [or Aotearoa; accept NZ] (The filmmaker in the first line is Merata Mita.)
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