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Sándor Lau

Director

Proud to be a world citizen, US-raised Chinese-Hungarian Sándor Lau did a masters in film at Auckland University, after time in Mexico and Europe. His epic walk to Cape Reinga is documented in 2003's Behaviours of the Backpacker; then came feature doco Squeegee Bandit, about a charismatic Māori car washer. It was invited to 20 international festivals. Lau is now a partner in a US finance company.

I think I’m a practical idealist. I want to tell uncommon stories about extraordinary ordinary people. Sándor Lau in an interview on Lumiere, April 2007