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Night Shift
    View Trailer2012, 15 minutes, color, New Zealand, Shorts Competition
    Salote, an airport cleaner, starts another long night shift. She keeps her head down, does her job, and gleans the means for her survival from what others leave behind.

    About the Director

    A Zoroastrian Indian by birth, Zia Mandviwalla immigrated to New Zealand in 1996. Mandviwalla’s work has traveled to film festivals worldwide and won a host of awards. In 2008, she spent four months in India working alongside Nandita Das on Das’s award-winning, multilingual directorial debut, Firaaq. In 2009, Mandviwalla was the recipient of New Zealand’s SPADA New Filmmaker of the Year Award. Night Shift is her fourth short film.

    Cast and Credits

    Director: Zia Mandviwalla

    Screenwriter: Zia Mandviwalla

    Executive Producers: Maile Daugherty, Michael Bennett

    Producers: Chelsea Winstanley, Matt Noonan

    Cinematographer: Ari Wegner

    Editor: Dave Coulson

    Art Director: Michael Williams

    Music: Warren Maxwell

    Principal Cast: Anapela Polataivao, Leon Dobrinski, Desond Malakai, Anapela Nimeti, Bree Peters

    Contact: Lisa Chatfield / New Zealand Film Commission / lisa@nzfilm.co.nz

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