Curious Director Zia Selected for Sundance

Curious Film writer/director Zia Mandviwalla’s short film Night Shift will compete in the 'Shorts Competition' as part of the Sundance Film Festival, which runs from January 17th to 27th, 2013.

 

Selected to screen at Cannes last year, Night Shift also made headways in 2012 at the Melbourne International Film Festival, The New Zealand International Film Festival and The Sorta Unofficial New Zealand Film Awards (The Moas).

 

The film tells the story of airport cleaner Salote who tries to make it through another long shift. She does her job, does not draw attention to herself, and carves out her survival from what commuters leave behind.

 

“The news that we are selected to screen in competition at the Sundance Film Festival is fantastic,” says Mandviwalla. “Night Shift wouldn't be the film that it is without the support and hard work of an exceptional cast and crew,” she adds.

 

Produced by Curious Film founder and executive producer Matt Noonan along with Chelsea Winstanley (based in Auckland), Night Shift was funded through the New Zealand Film Commission’s (NZFC) Premiere Shorts programme. Executive producers are Maile Daugherty and Michael Bennett from A Collective Intake of Breath.

 

Night Shift is award-winning director Mandviwalla’s fourth short film. Over the past few years,

Mandviwalla has been named SPADA’s New Filmmaker of the Year in 2009, Best Director and Best Short Film at Fitzroy Shorts, Melbourne, and a Grand Jury nomination at the South Asian International Film Festival in New York. Her work has screened at global festivals in London, New Zealand and Pusan.

 

Since 1985, the Sundance Film Festival brings the most original storytellers together for its annual program. For more information on Night Shift screening times visit: http://filmguide.sundance.org/film/13170/night_shift