Trailer: 3 Mile Limit

3 Mile Limit is one of two different versions about the early history of Radio Hauraki hitting our screens in the coming months. The film on the station's late 1960s beginnings when it started broadcasting rock'n'roll from The Tiri, a converted coastal trader moored in the then international waters of the Hauraki Gulf, opens at cinemas on March 6. The movie stars Matt Whelan (of Go Girls fame ) as the lead role of "Richard Davis". His character appears to be a composite of some of those involved in the station's maritime beginnings and the battle against government control of the airwaves. The film, helmed by first-time director Craig Whelan was funded by private investors and was shot in late 2012. TVNZ is also due to screen the New Zealand On Air backed docu-drama Pirates of the Airwaves later in the year.