Squeegee Bandit
Directed by Sándor Lau
A hustler survives washing car windows on the mean streets of Auckland, New Zealand.
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Overview
- Genre
- Minorities, Biography, Foreign Worlds, Contemporary Issues, and Human Rights
- Synopsis
Starfish is a Mäori man who survives by washing car windows at intersections on the mean streets of South Auckland, New Zealand. He’s a born hustler with an extreme personality—magnetic charisma, infectious humour, and a vicious temper. SQUEEGEE BANDIT follows Starfish’s struggles through nine months, three cars, two women, thirty residences, three weeks of homelessness, a hundred run-ins with the cops, one court date, a kilo of marijuana, a closet full of skeletons, finding God and the Zen of window washing.
- Stage
- finished
- Running time
- 75 minutes
Credits
- Sándor Lau ... director, co-producer
Production Details
- Prod. Co.
- Sandor Lau Creations, Kiwa Film
- Country
- New Zealand
- Years of Production
- 2005-2006
- Locations
- Auckland, New Zealand
- Prod. Partners
- Rhonda Kite, Kiwa Film
Distribution Details
- Release year
- 2007
- Festivals
- Auckland Intl Film Festival, Australian Intl Film Festival, ImagineNATIVE, FIFO Tahiti, Big Sky, Arizona Intl Film Fest, Visions du Reel Switzerland, Bendfilm, DOK Leipzig, Dreamspeakers, Winnipeg Aboriginal Film Fest, Urban TV Fest Spain, Anuu Ru Aboro
- Awards
- nominee Best Digital Feature NZ Screen Awards, Nominee SPADA NZ New Filmmaker of the Year, Winner Best Techical Contribution to a Digital Feature NZ Screen Awards, nominee Best Editing Quantas NZ TV awards, Best Documentary Nepal Intl. Indigenous Film Fes
- Distribution
- Arkles Entertainment, theatrical release, New Zealand
- Broadcast (Acq.)
- Maori TV, the Venture Channel
- Language
- English (occasional Maori)
- Subtitles
- English, French
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