W A I T I N G | Short Film

Two boys wait outside a shop for a phone call.

Starsky has never met his father. So when he receives a letter from him that he wants to talk, he skips school with his best friend Kenny to wait at the payphone outside the local shop.

Director: Amberley Jo Aumua
Writer: Samuel Kamu
Director of Photography: Greer Lindsay
Editor: Huhana Ruri-Panapa
Cast: Desmond Malakai, Casta-Troy Cocker-Lemalie

Produced by Unitec Creative Industries in association with the New Zealand Film Commission


AWARDS

Best Short Film, New Zealand International Film Festival 2017

Best Student Film, Show Me Shorts International Film Festival 2017


FILM FESTIVALS

*2018*

Aussie & Kiwi Film Festival,
Prague, Czech Republic

Hawaii International Film Festival,
Honolulu, United States

Rotorua Indigenous Film Festival
Rotorua, New Zealand

Indigenous Film & Arts Festival - Presented by the International Institute for Indigenous Resource Management
Colorado, United States

NewFilmmakers Los Angeles
Hollywood, United States

BFI London Film Festival
London, United Kingdom

Down Under Berlin Film Festival
Berlin, Germany

Pasifika Film Festival
Sydney, Australia

Melbourne International Film Festival
Melbourne, Australia

Presence Autochtone - Montreal First Peoples Festival
Montreal, Canada

Musee Du (Museum of) Quai Branly - Jacques Chirac
Paris, France

Palm Springs International ShortFest
Palm Springs, United States

Busan Short Film Festival
Busan, Republic of Korea

Maoriland Film Festival
Otaki, New Zealand

Tampere Film Festival
Tampere, Finland

Te Kuki Airani Film Festival
Cook Islands

*2017*

Pollywood - Pasifika Film Festival
Auckland, New Zealand

Nuku'alofa Film Festival
Nuku'alofa, Tonga

Toronto International Film Festival
Toronto, Canada

Wairoa Maori Film Festival
Wairoa, New Zealand