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Lemi's Comic-Strip Capers

1997 Short film
  • Children
  • Fantasy

This debut short film from writer and director Patrick Gillies (Admit One and feature Offensive Behaviour) includes acts of industrial sabotage, insect activism and a classic cape-wearing superhero. A shadowy 'insect activist' (Richard White) wages war against a local factory but schoolboy Lemi (Mareko Mareko) is oblivious, absorbed in the world of his comics  especially the adventures of the the crime-busting Crimson Crusader. After Lemi is banned from a school trip, he discovers the activist's next target and grabs a chance to turn his fantasy into reality. The Crimson Crusader comic strip artwork is by Paul Potiki.