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NIGHT SHIFT
by Zia Mandviwalla
New Zealand 2012 15 min. English original version fiction
German premiere
Airport cleaner Salote starts another night shift. She keeps her head down, does her job. No one would spare her a second glance.
Script: Zia Mandviwalla, DoP: Ari Wegner, Editor: David Coulson, Production: Curious, Producers: Chelsea Winstanley, Matt Noonan, Cast: Anapela Polataivao, Leon Dobrinski, Bree Peters
Biography: A Zoroastrian-Indian by birth and parentage, Zia Mandviwalla immigrated to New Zealand in 1996. Her work so far has travelled to film festivals worldwide including London, Pusan and Melbourne. She was also the recipient of New Zealand’s New Filmmaker of the Year Award in 2009. She is currently working on a documentary about the Zoroastrians of India and is developing a feature-length film based on NIGHT SHIFT.
Filmography: 2004 EATING SAUSAGE, 2007 CLEAN LINEN, 2010 AMADI, 2012 NIGHT SHIFT
Awards: Award for Best Film, Best Actor, Best Cinematographer und Best Screenplay (Show Me Shorts Film Festival, New Zealand 2012), Firebird Award (Hong Kong International Film Festival, China 2013), Youth Jury Prize (Aspen Shortsfest, USA 2013)
www.nightshiftfilm.com
Contact:
New Zealand Film Commission
Lisa Chatfied
Level 3, 119 Ghuznee Street
6011 Wellington
New Zealand
Phone: +64 (4) 3 82 76 86
shorts@nzfilm.co.nz
www.nzfilm.co.nz
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