Waihoroi Shortland

Películas

Boy
Weirdo
Es 1984 y Michael Jackson es el rey del pop- incluso en Waihau Bay, Nueva Zelanda. Aquí conocemos a Boy, un niño de 11 años que vive en una granja con su abuela, una cabra y sus hermano pequeño Rocky (que cree que tiene poderes). Poco después de que su abuela se vaya a un entierro durante una semana, el padre de Boy, Alamein, aparece de la nada. Habiendo imaginado una versión heróica de su padre, Boy descubre la realidad: un incompetente criminal de poca monta que sólo ha vuelto para recuperar el botín que enterró antes de entrar a la cárcel. Aquí es donde la cabra aparece...
The Maori Merchant of Venice
Hairoka (Shylock)
A modern day take on the classic bard tale - with Silver as a movie producer.
Crooked Earth
Writer
Will Bastion returns home from the army after an absence of 20 years to bury his father, the former chief of thee Maori tribe, Ngati Kaipuku. The eldest son, he is reluctant to inherit his fathers role, so it is taken more willingly by his younger brother, Kahu. Kahu is the leader of a band of drug dealers and trouble-makers who ride horses through the middle of town, wrecking peoples gardens. Under the guise of refusal of a land settlement, Kahu makes a large marijuana deal with some murdering city folk. Will must choose between loyalty for his brother and his father, Maori tradition, and contemporary financial issues.