Night Shift
- Drama
- Pasifika
In this multi award-winning short film, Salote, a cleaner, struggles through a shift at Auckland Airport while hiding the painful reality of her life from those around her. Anapela Polataivao (from comic duo Pani and Pani, and TV series The Market) plays Salote. Night Shift was the fourth short from writer/director Zia Mandviwalla (Eating Sausage, Clean Linen, Amadi). The film enjoyed a successful festival run at home and abroad, picking up a number of awards, including Best Film, Actor and Screenplay at Kiwi fest Show Me Shorts; it was nominated for Best Short at the Cannes Film Festival and the Sundance Film Festival.
Press kit for Night Shift (scroll down), NZ Film Commission website
Big Idea interview with writer/director Zia Mandviwalla, August 2012
Backstage interview with Zia Mandviwalla, May 2012
Finch interview with director Zia Mandviwalla (scroll down)
Fashion Quarterly interview with Zia Mandviwalla, February 2019











