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Taika Waititi is a New Zealand filmmaker, actor and comedian. Waititi began his film career in the early 2000s by directing short films. His short film Two Cars, One Night (2003) got him an Academy Award nomination for Best Live Action Short Film. His first feature film, Eagle vs Shark, was released in 2007.
His first feature film, a romantic comedy called Eagle vs Shark, was released in U.S. theatres for limited distribution in 2007. [26] Waititi co-wrote the film with Loren Horsley. [27] That year, Waititi wrote and directed one episode of the TV show Flight of the Conchords and directed another. [28]
What We Do in the Shadows is a 2014 New Zealand mockumentary [3] horror comedy film written and directed by Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi and the first installment in the What We Do in the Shadows franchise. The film also stars Clement and Waititi, along with Jonathan Brugh, Ben Fransham, Cori Gonzalez-Macuer, Stu Rutherford, and Jackie van ...
Budget. $1.35 million. Box office. $1.2 million. Eagle vs Shark is a 2007 New Zealand romantic comedy film written and directed by Taika Waititi and financed by the New Zealand Film Commission. The film had its world premiere at Sundance in the World Cinema Dramatic section of the festival. It received mixed reviews.
Boy is a 2010 New Zealand comedy-drama film, [ 2] written and directed by Taika Waititi. The film stars James Rolleston, Te Aho Aho Eketone-Whitu, and Waititi. It is produced by Cliff Curtis, Ainsley Gardiner and Emanuel Michael and financed by the New Zealand Film Commission. In New Zealand, the film eclipsed previous records for a first week ...
Box office. US$ 23.2 million [ 1] Hunt for the Wilderpeople is a 2016 New Zealand adventure comedy-drama film written and directed by Taika Waititi, whose screenplay was based on the book Wild Pork and Watercress by Barry Crump. Sam Neill and Julian Dennison play "Uncle" Hector and Ricky Baker; a father figure and foster son who become the ...
Two Cars, One Night, full film, YouTube video, on the official Searchlight Pictures channel. [2] Two Cars, One Night is a 2003 New Zealand short film written and directed by Taika Waititi. [3] The film is about two young boys and a girl meeting in the carpark of a rural pub in Te Kaha, New Zealand. What at first seems to be a relationship based ...
New Zealand filmmaker Taika Waititi is the recipient of various awards and nominations, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, a Writers Guild of America Award, and nominations for the Golden Globe Awards and Primetime Emmy Awards, among others. In 2005, Waititi received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Live Action ...