1Nite in Auckland - a digital feature by Amarbir Singh
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A gritty award-winning New Zealand digital feature, 1Nite is the debut film from Indian-born director Amarbir Singh. A gritty award-winning New Zealand digital feature, 1Nite is the debut film from Indian-born director Amarbir Singh.Among its talented ensemble cast, the film features Bruce Hopkins aka "Gamling" from Peter Jackson's Lord Of The Rings trilogy. 1Nite is a multi-layered urban narrative, and features NZ-born Rajiv Varma playing an immigrant Sikh taxi driver who is struggling to come to terms with his new life.
Set in and around one of New Zealand's most notorious inner city streets - Karangahape Road - the film has an aesthetic reminiscent of the darkness, wetness, coldness, and loneliness of a thousand city stories. It follows a disparate group of locals who experience what will be for most of them a night of truths and revelations.
1Nite was made with a crew of two - Singh and his cinematographer/editor, Cristobal Aruas Lobos, himself a Chilean migrant to New Zealand.
Read Lumiere's review of the 1Nite DVD here.
20/2/07