 Instead Pillsbury helmed 1880s immigrant tale Heart of the High Country for TV (based on a novel by Elizabeth Gowans), then segued into period road movie Starlight Hotel, which starred Smash Palace discovery Greer Robson.Since Starlight Hotel, Pillsbury has directed extensively, mainly on American tele-movies.He returned to Kiwi moviemaking in 2000 for Crooked Earth, the tale of a clash between two Māori