NZ short doco wins top USA Award

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Award winning New Zealand director Valerie Reid has scooped another international award with her short documentary 'Sand Dancer' winning Best Documentary at its very first USA screening at The Foursite Film Festival in Utah USA - March 2007. Foursite ran for 5 days with audiences of 800 per screening. . The film was screened by invitation.

'Sand Dancer' has also been selected to screen at the prestigious Tribeca Film Festival - New York, USA. Tribeca was established by Robert De
Niro.. Morgan Freeman and Penelope Cruz were in attendance last year.
Past winners include Oscar winner Director Martin Scorsese. www.tribecafilmfestival.org

Over 4700 films are submitted from which 200 are selected to screen. 'Sand Dancer' is the only NZ short film to be accepted.

'Sand Dancer' has picked up the following awards in the past 5 months.

Winner Audience Choice Award - Golden Horse International Short
Competition, Taipei, Nov 2006

Winner Best Documentary Award at MAGMA International Shorts Fest NZ
Nov 2006

Winner Best Documentary Foursite Film Festival Utah USA March 2007
Finalist Nominee for Best Culture and Environmental Film Award Wet
West Int F F NZ Jan 2007

Valerie would like to acknoweldge the generous help of Chris Jones, Michelle Koortse, Mark Soster , Tahi Richards, Rob Battersby, Gordon Andrews, Slipstream and Lisa Imbruglia. Sand Dancer features iconic NZ sand artist Peter Donnelly.

ENDS

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