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Waru
Film (Trailer) – 2017
2018 Asia Pacific Film Festival (Los Angeles)
Grand Jury Award for Outstanding International Narrative Feature
2018 Seattle International Film Festival (United States)
Audience Award for Best Film
2018 Wairoa Māori Film Festival (New Zealand)
Mana Wairoa Grand Prize for Advancement of Indigenous Rights
2017 SWANZ Script Writer Awards (New Zealand Writers Guild)
Best Feature Film Script
Festivals include
2017 New Zealand, 2017 Toronto, 2017 imagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival (Canada - Opening Night Film)
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