A Very Nice Honeymoon

When Jeff and Phill Simmonds embarked on making A Very Nice Honeymoon they didn’t know that separate audio recordings of their maternal great grandmother Elizabeth Vella and her daughter Metty Vella talking about the SS Wairarapa...
New Zealand Production
Short 2006 Documentary, Animation 10.00 minutes
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A Very Nice Honeymoon is a beautifully crafted 2D and 3D animated film about Jeff and Phill Simmond’s great grandparents Mariano and Elizabeth Vella who were on the steamer SS Wairarapa when it was wrecked on the coast of Great Barrier Island, New Zealand, in 1893.
2006 - New Zealand International Film Festival
2007 - Sukagawa International Short Film Festival
Palm Springs International Film Festival
'Best Film' Show Me Shorts Film Festival

Directors

Jeff Simmonds
Phill Simmonds

Producers

Jeff Simmonds
Phill Simmonds

Screenplay Writers

Jeff Simmonds
Phill Simmonds

Executive Producers

Catherine Fitzgerald

Production Company

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