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DIRECTOR’S NOTES -SUMMER AGNEW “In any culture a tangi (funeral) reminds us that the relationship between life and death is intricate. A tangi is when the living and the dead come together equally, in the whare nui (meeting...

New Zealand Production

Short 2008 Drama 15.00 minutes

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A young man explores a memory of a childhood game and a lesson learned from his uncle. The memory provides respite from the profound grief of the uncle’s passing and allows him time to reconcile his feelings of loss and say farewell.

Wairoa Maori Film Festival

Audience Award

2008 - New Zealand International Film Festivals

Directors

Summer Agnew

Producers

Angela Littlejohn

Screenplay Writers

Summer Agnew

Warren Beazley

Executive Producers

Sarina Pearson

Shuchi Kothari

Cast

Kohonui Joshua Wilcox
Young Narks

Calvin Tuteao
Pakaru

Crew

Ian McCarroll | Director of Photography

Peter Roberts | Editor

Miro Harré | Production Designer

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