WAYS TO SEE

2019 • Short Film

Genre: Drama/Thriller
Duration: 15 minutes
Rating: R13, contains themes of suicide
Funder: New Zealand Film Commission
Production Company: Sandy Lane Productions

A young girl, Amaia, looks for her missing father with the help of a mysterious woman. To make sense of a family tragedy, Amaia reinterprets what she knows of an old pūrākau (story). A dark, yet beautiful, exploration of grief.

FESTIVALS & AWARDS

2019 Short Film GOLD Award New Zealand Cinematography Awards

Tammy Williams (Director Of Photography)

2019 Emerging Cinematographer Of The Year Award 

Tammy Williams for 'Ways To See'

2019 Official Selection New Zealand International Film Festival

2019 Official Selection ImagineNATIVE Film Festival (Toronto, Canada)

2019 Official Selection Rotorua Indigenous Film Festival (Aotearoa New Zealand)

2019 Wairoa Māori Film Festival (Aotearoa New Zealand)

2020 Official Selection Māoriland Film Festival (Aotearoa New Zealand)

2020 Official Selection Vision Maker Film Festival (Nebraska USA)

2020 Official Selection Skábmagovat Film Festival (Finland)

2020 Sydney & Melbourne Lift-Off Festival (Australia)

2021 Official Selection Birrarangga Film Festival (Australia)

2022 Official Selection Melbourne Women in Film Festival (Australia)

CAST

  • Manawanui Maniapoto Mills

    ‘AMAIA’

    Agent: Johnson & Laird

  • Awhina-Rose Ashby

    ‘WOMAN IN BLACK’

    Agent: GMC

  • Jodie Hillock

    ‘MARIA / AMAIA’S MOTHER’

    Agent: GMC

  • Troy Kingi

    ‘AMAIA’S DAD’

    Agent: Karen Kay