Three NZ films to screen at Shanghai International Film Festival
Directed by Stephen Kang, Desert tells the story of a pregnant Asian girl forced to fend for herself after she is abandoned by her Kiwi boyfriend and rejected by her Asian community for becoming pregnant to a westerner before marriage.
This is the second Asian success for Desert which premiered at the 2010 Busan Film Festival and comes on top of Kang’s recent success at Cannes with his short film Blue which was awarded the Grand.
Love Birds, a romantic comedy from writer Nick Ward and director Paul Murphy, is the second collaboration between the pair who also delivered Second Hand Wedding.
Starring NZ comedian Rhys Darby and Golden Globe Winning actress Sally Hawkins, the film tells the story of a regular Kiwi bloke who finds himself on a quest to find true love with the help of a native New Zealand duck.
Tracker completes the line-up of NZ films in Shanghai. A UK/NZ co-production, written by Nicholas van Pallandt and directed by Ian Sharp, it features
Ray Winstone and Temuera Morrison in a tale of the collision of a South African Boer War survivor in colonial New Zealand with the Maori sailor accused of murder that he tracks for a large bounty.
Since being formed in 1993, Shanghai has become the world’s fourth largest international film festival and China’s only A-category international film festival accredited by the FIAPF.
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