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Night Shift

Parental guidance recommended for younger viewers 2012 14m Short film
  • 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.