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Slow West, John Maclean’s western shot in New Zealand’s South Island last year, has won a top accolade at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. The film has been awarded the World Cinema Drama Grand Jury Prize.
Starring Michael Fassbender, Slow West is a 19th century American frontier story about a teenager (played by Australian Kodi Smit-McPhee) on a journey to find the woman he loves, accompanied by Fassbender's mysterious Silas.
The feature is a New Zealand/UK co-production, shot in Canterbury’s Mackenzie country around the town of Twizel. It was produced by New Zealander Rachel Gardner, The King’s Speech producers Iain Canning and Emile Sherman, and Conor McCaughan.
This has been a successful year for New Zealand at Sundance, with Z for Zachariah (starring Margot Robbie, Chris Pine and Chiwetel Ejiofor) and NZ/Canada feature Turbo Kid also premiering at the festival. New Zealander Jemaine Clement (What We Do in the Shadows, Eagle vs Shark) also stars as a newly single dad of twin girls in People, Places, Things, which screened in the US Dramatic category.
Celebrated New Zealand filmmaker Taika Waititi (What we do in the Shadows) was one of three judges on the World Cinema panel.