Bird

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Title

Bird

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NZ On Screen

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You can’t choose your family. This 2011 short film explores the father-daughter dynamic between free-spirited Bird (Peter Hawes) and uptight Blessing (Dra McKay). When Bird nearly burns down the house, Blessing packs him off to the Golden Falls retirement home. Hippy Bird chaffs against the home’s confinements, and forces Blessing to reconsider what freedom and kindness might mean with regard to kin. Bird was co-directed by acclaimed advertising director Steve Ayson (The French Doors) and Jan...

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Video

Date created

2011

URL

https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/bird-2011

Related subjects

retirement / retirement home / elderly / grief / kauri / toke / marijuana / smoking / bird / pigeon / whakaaria mai / father / daughter / fire

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