Eagle vs Shark
Taika Waititi
New Zealand
2007
Dammit! I’m too complex!
93", 35mm
Color, English
about the film
Lily McKinnon is an awkward fast food waitress, excluded because she simply doesn’t fit. Wrong dress, wrong walk, wrong talk, wrong everything. Yet beneath all the wrong is a little bit of wonderful. She’s a best friend with no friends who sails through life on a rocky sea, grateful because she’s on a boat when some people in the world don’t even get to ride on a boat. She has a crush on a man who walks into the Meaty Boy burger bar every lunch time has an identical mole, above his lip, just like her. That man is Jarrod Lough, more interested in Lily’s pretty workmate. He doesn’t give a toss about the weird girl with the weird mole. He is a video game champion, determined to win respect but pushing all the wrong buttons. His social switch is permanently off. On the day Lily gets fired from her job at Meaty Boy, she musters up the courage to attend Jarrod’s annual “come as your favorite animal” costume party. Much like Wes Anderson’s films, Eagle vs Shark – an instant favorite at Sundance 07- is a hilariously funny yet painfully real tale of two oddballs, struggling to love.
about the director
Taika Waititi was born in 1975 in New Zealand. He is a film director, writer, painter, comedian and actor, best known for his short film Two Cars, One Night for which he was nominated for an Academy Award. He was one half of the comedy duo Humourbeats who were the recipients of New Zealand’s highest comedy award, the ‘Billy T’ in 1999.
awards
2007 HBO Comedy Festival: Best Screenplay
Newport Film Festival: Best Narrative Feature and Best Actress
Vladivostok Film Festival: Special Jury Prize
Sundance Film Festival
Berlin Film Festival
South by South West Film Festival
screenings
| February 14 Thursday, 7:00 PM AFM Fitaş Beyoğlu 2 |
| February 16 Saturday, 10:00 PM AFM Budak Caddebostan |
| February 22 Friday, 3:00 PM AFM Fitaş Beyoğlu 2 |
| February 26 Tuesday, 7:00 PM AFM Fitaş Beyoğlu 1 |
| March 02 Sunday, 1:30 PM AFM CEPA Ankara 4 |
credits
- Director
- Taika Waititi
- Screenplay
- Taika Waititi
- Cinematography
- Adam Clark
- Editing
- Jono Woodford-Robinson
- Cast
- Loren Horsley, Jemaine Clement, Brian Sergent, Craig Hall, Rachel House, Cohen Holloway
- Producer
- Ainsley Gardiner, Cliff Curtis
- Production Co.
- Whenua Films
- Distribütör
- The New Zealand Film Commission Level 3, 119 Ghuznee Street, PO Box 11 546, Wellington, New Zealand Tel: +64 4 382 7680 Fax: +64 4 384 9719 E-mail: Jason@nzfilm.co.nz
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