This weeks’ Entertainment Weekly has a short short blurb mentioning Eagle Vs. Shark. The sentence may be short but the photograph is good.
KIWI DIRECTOR’S FIRST-NIGHT NERVES Anna Chalmers
25 January 2007
Dominion Post
© 2007 Fairfax New Zealand Limited. All Rights Reserved.
WELLINGTON film-maker Taika Waititi says the premiere of his first feature film, Eagle vs Shark, at a United States film festival was nerve-racking, but went well. The Oscar-nominated Waititi said last night’s debut, in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition section [...]
Posted on: Thursday, Jan. 25, 2007
by Sundance Spy
From Academy Award nominated director Taika Waititi (for his short film Two Cars, One Night) comes the best indie romantic comedy of all time.
Lily is a sweet shy weird indie girl who meets a clueless video game geek named Jarrod while working at a fast food restaurant Meaty [...]
EAGLE VS. SHARK
New Zealand, 2006, 87 Minutes, color
Director:
Taika Waititi
Screenwriter:
Taika Waititi
Which is the more dangerous predator: an eagle or a shark? That’s a trick question. Don’t try to answer it. You’ll have your own opinion by the [...]
US Release Date Announced for Kiwi Feature
Media Release - NZPA
18 January 2007
(c) 2007 New Zealand Press Association
Leading North American distributor Miramax Films has announced a 1st June release date for Taika Waititis wickedly offbeat debut feature EAGLE vs. SHARK. The film has also been honoured with selection at three major international film festivals.
EAGLE vs. SHARK [...]
The Guy Capper and Jemaine Clement claymation collaboration will premiere all four episodes at the Cuba St Carnival Feb.23, 2007. So, if you are in Wellington go see “Life After Death”, “The Pen”, “Getting Shorn” and the Premiere of “How to Baa.” Read about the outdoor showing here or here. (It’s being book-ended after a [...]
TOLERANT BEASTS
By Julie JACOBSON.
Mar 1 2004
Dominion Post
(c) 2004 Independent Newspapers Ltd. All rights reserved.
Duo Humourbeasts take a slightly impolite poke at Maori myths. There might be a message, but mainly it’s `stupid comedy’.
JEMAINE CLEMENT’S Y chromosomes have gone walkabout. The 30-year-old actor, half of comedy duo the Humourbeasts, is full of the joys of [...]