Sione's Wedding

Hit Pasifika comedy Sione's Wedding follows four 30-something guys, on a mission to find a girlfriend before their best friend's wedding. Through their bumbling efforts at romance, the film captures the colour and humour of the Samoan community in Auckland, the world's largest Polynesian city. The breakthrough Pasifika-Kiwi movie was a major hit on its March 2006 Kiwi release. Oscar Kightley (who plays the romantically inept Albert) wrote the script with James Griffin. Joining Kightley on-screen are fellow Naked Samoans Shimpal Lelisi, Robbie Magasiva and Iaheto Ah Hi. Read more about Sione's Wedding here. 

I was surprised by the degree to which the film just fell into people's hearts. Even years later, I'm meeting people who say they go home every night and watch it after work to cheer themselves up.

– Oscar Kightley, in a 13 January 2011 interview with Auckland Now

Key Cast & Crew

Chris Graham

Director

Shimpal Lelisi

As: Iosefa

Robbie Magasiva

As: Michael

Oscar Kightley

Writer, As: Albert, Associate Producer

Iaheto Ah Hi

As: Stanley

Teuila Blakely

As: Leilani