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Sione's Wedding

Film (Trailer and Excerpts) – 2006

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Mature

Hit Pasifika comedy Sione's Wedding follows four 30-something guys, on a mission to find a girlfriend before their best friend's wedding. Through their bumbling efforts at romance, the film captures the colour and humour of the Samoan community in Auckland, the world's largest Polynesian city. The breakthrough Pasifika-Kiwi movie was a major hit on its March 2006 Kiwi release. Oscar Kightley (who plays the romantically inept Albert) wrote the script with James Griffin. Joining Kightley on-screen are fellow Naked Samoans Shimpal Lelisi, Robbie Magasiva and Iaheto Ah Hi. Read more about Sione's Wedding here

Man, we're gonna be banned from our own funerals.
– Albert (Oscar Kightley)

Acknowledgements

Made with funding from the NZ Film Commission, in association with NZ On Air, Village Skycity Cinemas and Joseph P Moodabe

Music

Opening credits song 'I Do Believe' performed by Tha Freestyle, featuring Mareko, Flowz and Lapi Mariner


Closing credits song 'Forever' performed by Aaradhna, featuring Kevin Soul


'Knowing You So Long' (song at Sione's wedding ceremony) performed by Bella Kalalo, Teuila Blakely and Joy Vaele


Songs by Dawn Raid Entertainment. Soundtrack includes tracks by Nesian Mystik, Mt Vaea Band, Adeaze, Savage, The Bleeders, Deceptikonz, and Ladi6

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