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