​ACHIEVEMENTS

Recognition for the films I have worked on.

 

2024

• Official Selection, Pacific Island Film Festival In New York, (Search For Hawaiki.)

• Official Selection, Wairoa Māori Film Festival, (Search For Hawaiki.)

• Official Selection, Wairoa Māori Film Festival, (Dive.)

• Official Selection, Wairoa Māori Film Festival, (Bringing Mere Home.)

• Official Selection, Wairoa Māori Film Festival, (The Lascar.)

• Official Selection, Whanau Marama NZIFF Short Connections Category. (The Lascar.)

• Official Selection, NZ Webfest, (Search For Hawaiki.)

• Official Selection, NZ Webfest, (Dive.)

• Official Selection, Māoriland Film Festival, (Search For Hawaiki.)​

• Official Selection, Show Me Shorts Film Festival (Search For Hawaiki.)

• Official Selection, Vision Feast Film Festival NZ (Search For Hawaiki.)

• Official Selection, Vision Feast Film Festival NZ (Dive.)

• Official Selection, AFIN International Film Festival Australia, (Dive.)

• FINALIST, Best Live Action Screenplay, AFIN International Film Festival Australia, (Dive.)

• NOMINEE, Best Live Action Short, AFIN International Film Festival  Australia, (Dive.)

• 2024 - NOMINEE, Best Live Student Short, AFIN International Film Festival Australia, (Dive)

• NOMINEE, Best Director, Vision Feast Film Festival NZ (Search For Hawaiki.)

• WINNER, Best Writing, NZ Web Fest 2024 (Dive)

• WINNER, Best Actor, Top Of The South Film Festival (Dive/Redlight)

• WINNER, Best International Short, AFIN Film Festival (Dive)

• WINNER, Best Short Film, New Zealand Indian Short Film Festival, (The Lascar.)

• WINNER, Jury Best Short Film, Alameda Film Festival, (The Lascar.)

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2023​

• Official Selection, New Zealand's Vision Feast Festival, (Bringing Mere Home.)

• Official Selection, Whanau Marama NZIFF Nga Whanaunga Category, (Bringing Mere Home)

• Official Selection, Māoriland Film Festival, (Bringing Mere Home.)

• WINNER, Best Visionary Acting, New Zealand's Vision Feast Film Festival, (Bringing Mere Home.)

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2022​

• NOMINEE, Best Actor, Top Of The South Film Festival, (Bringing Mere Home.)

• NOMINEE, Best Picture, Top Of The South Film Festival, (Bringing Mere Home.)

• Official Selection Top Of The South Film Festival, (Bringing Mere Home.)

• WINNER, People's Choice Award, Top Of The South Film Festival (Bringing Mere Home.)

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2021​

• Official Selection Cannes Film Des Antipodes Festival (The Haka.)

• Official Selection, FLICKFAIR Film Festival, (Stuntman.)

• Official Selection, Beverly Hills Film Festival, (Stuntman.)

• Official Selection, Love Your Shorts Film Festival, (Stuntman.)

• FINALIST, Houston International Film Festival, (Stuntman.)

• WINNER Best Aotearoa film, Top Of The South Film Festival (The Haka.)

 

​2020

• Official Selection, Whanau Marama NZIFF, (Stuntman.)

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2019

• Official Selection, Seattle Latino Film Festival, (One Thousand And Fifty Minutes.)

• Official Selection, Whanau Marama NZIFF, (Births, Deaths, and Marriages.)

• Official Selection, Golden Nikau Film Festival, (Beneath The Mountains.)

• NOMINEE, Best Editing, Top Of The South Film Festival, (Beneath The Mountains.)

• Official Selection, Top Of The South Film Festival, (Beneath The Mountains.)

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2018

• Official Selection, Whanau Marama NZIFF, (One Thousand And Fifty Minutes,)

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2014​

• WINNER, Best Of The Strange Award, V48 Hour Film Festival