Sione's Wedding

Film (Trailer and Excerpts) – 2006

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Feel-good comedy Sione's Wedding follows four 30-something guys who must find a girlfriend before their best friend's wedding — or be left out in the cold. Through their bumbling efforts to get the girls, the movie brought to life the colour and humour of the Samoan community in Auckland, the world's largest Polynesian city. A breakthrough Pasifika-Kiwi film, Sione's Wedding broke box office records when it opened in Kiwi cinemas in March 2006. Oscar Kightley (who plays the romantically inept Albert) wrote the script with James Griffin. Makerita Urale writes 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 Bridget Jones

Key Cast & Crew

Robbie Magasiva

As: Michael

Iaheto Ah Hi

As: Stanley

Shimpal Lelisi

As: Iosefa

Chris Graham

Director

Teuila Blakely

As: Leilani

Oscar Kightley

Writer, As: Albert, Associate Producer

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Produced by

South Pacific Pictures

Source

South Pacific Pictures

Acknowledgements

Made with funding from the NZ Film Commission, in association with NZ On Air, Village Skycity Cinemas and Joseph P. Moodabe

Music

Opening credits song 'I Do Believe' performed by Tha Freestyle, featuring Mareko, Flowz and Lapi Mariner

Closing credits song 'Forever' performed by Aaradhna, featuring Kevin Soul

'Knowing You So Long' (song at Sione's wedding ceremony) performed by Bella Kalalo, Teuila Blakely and Joy Vaele

Songs by Dawn Raid Entertainment. Soundtrack includes tracks by Nesian Mystik, Mt Vaea Band, Adeaze, Tha Freestytle, Savage, The Bleeders, Deceptikonz, and Ladi 6