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Amaia is a young girl living with her depressed mother in an inner-city apartment. With no family or friends close by, she desperately seeks out her absent father. Believing that a mysterious woman can reconnect them, Amaia goes to extreme...

New Zealand Production

Short 2019 Drama 15.00 minutes

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A young girl seeks her absent father. When a mysterious woman, beautiful and otherworldly, visits the family home –the young girl and her mother must face the truth of his absence.

2019: NZIFF

ImagineNATIVE

Rotorua Indigenous Film Festival

Māoriland Film Festival

Skábmagovat Indigenous Peoples 2019 Film Festival

2022: Melbourne Women in Film Festival

Directors

Jessica Sanderson

Producers

Desray Armstrong

Screenplay Writers

Jessica Sanderson

Cast

Manawanui Maniapoto Mills
Amaia

Jodie Hillock
Mother

Awhina-Rose Ashby
The Woman in Black

Troy Kingi
Father

Crew

Tweedie Waititi | Co-Producer

Tammy Williams | DOP

Rose Guthrie | Production Designer

Anastasia Doniants | Editor

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