A Fish Tale

A Fish Tale was filmed in Western Springs, Auckland, in a cluster of small stucco houses that hold a Mediterranean look and are striking for their colour and uniformity and atypical New Zealand feel. Holland liked their strange...
New Zealand Production
Short 2003 Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Comedy 12.00 minutes
A Fish Tale tony pa and fish
A Fish Tale is Tony's story of his father Diego, an immigrant to New Zealand, a man blessed and burdened by love and dreams. Diego loves his son Tony and tries to capture that which has gone - his other great loves - his wife Maria and his homeland. A stranger in a strange land, he has never fitted into his adopted home.... until one paticularly hot summer when a single perfect orange appears and it seems that anything is possible.
2003 - New Zealand Film Festival
Cinemambiente Environmental Film Festival

Directors

Jane Holland

Producers

Chloe Smith

Screenplay Writers

Michael Bennett

Cast

Paul Norell
Diego
Michael Langley
Tony

Crew

Donald Duncan | Director of Photography
Margot Francis | Editor
Vivienne Kernick | Art Director

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