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For the first time, a short-film produced in Hawaii is accepted into the Sundance Film Festival.
The movie is about a Samoan chief whose life takes a disastrous turn. This is Chief Sielu Avea's first effort at dramatic acting. Director Brett Wagner says he was confident about the film because of the acting, script and cinematography.
"There's definitely a luck factor as well because they receive 8,000 submissions every year, five thousand of those were short films so that was what we were competing against and it's just a dream come true," said Wagner.
It wasn't easy getting here. There were difficulties shooting at sea, in storms, in moving cars going through Chinatown in the dark.
"All these things are very difficult. But I felt like every day of the shoot, we came away with something that just felt magical. Something that felt like - a gift," said Wagner.
The movie is about a Samoan chief whose life takes a disastrous turn. This is Chief Sielu Avea's first effort at dramatic acting. Director Brett Wagner says he was confident about the film because of the acting, script and cinematography.
"There's definitely a luck factor as well because they receive 8,000 submissions every year, five thousand of those were short films so that was what we were competing against and it's just a dream come true," said Wagner.
It wasn't easy getting here. There were difficulties shooting at sea, in storms, in moving cars going through Chinatown in the dark.
"All these things are very difficult. But I felt like every day of the shoot, we came away with something that just felt magical. Something that felt like - a gift," said Wagner.
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