Young Kiwi film duo win at Houston Cinema Art Festival

Good enough for NASA
Young Kiwi film duo win at Houston Cinema Art Festival

The short film – Lani’s Space has won a special category award at the CineSpace competition for; Film Best Depicting Benefits to Humanity from the International Space Station.

The short film by Film Construction’s rising stars, Harriett Maire and Ferris Bradley – is about a solo father’s journey to understand his daughter’s love of space.

They were competing with 900 entries from around the world. The film was also screened at the Houston Cinema Art Festival in November 2016 along with 15 other finalists.

Created by NASA and the Houston Cinema Arts Society, Cinespace is a short film competition giving filmmakers around the world a chance to share their works inspired by and using actual NASA imagery.

The 21-year-old Director, Harriett Maire says, “When making a short film, you become so wrapped up and invested in the project that sometimes it can be difficult to objectively see whether it does what it set out to achieve, and tells a good story. Having this acknowledgement from Cinespace and Richard Linklater himself is incredibly humbling.

“We won $4000USD, which is just an astonishing amount of money. We plan to feed it into another creative project very soon. My dream in the hopefully not-too-distant future would be to buy the rights to turn one of my favourite New Zealand novels into a film.”

Film Construction CEO, Patrick McAteer says, “We’re so proud of these guys – it’s really exciting to be working with and mentoring them at the start of their careers. To win something like this will set them up for big things.”

Lani’s Space – a short film on Facebook: http://bit.ly/2eKTUQA

Visit Cinespace: http://cinespace16.org/

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