Summer, girls, beer, drugs, gangs … It’s not easy being eleven. Boy and his brother Rocky try to find their potential in the shadow of their larger-than-life father Alamein

Prod companies: Whenua Films, Unison Films.

Budget: n/a

Backers: Film Fund of the New Zealand Film Commission.

Producers: Ainsley Gardiner, Cliff Curtis, Emanuel Michael.

Intl sales: NZ Film.

Local distrib: Transmission Films.

Director: Taika Waititi.

Screenplay: Taika Waititi.

DoP: Adam Clark.

Production design: Shayne Radford

Cast: James Rolleston, Te Aho Eketone-Whitu, Taika Waititi.

Shooting from March 16 to May 9 at Waihau Bay, East Coast, New Zealand.

Contact:Ainsley Gardiner, producer, Whenua Films Limited, ainsley@whenuafilms.co.nz

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