New Zealand film dealing with the devastation of P on whānau smokes competition to take out Puerto Rico film award

by NZ Herald — 29 August 2022

A short film partially in te reo Māori and directed by Jennifer Te Atamira Ward-Lealand about the P problem in Aotearoa has won Best International Short Film at the Puerto Rico Film Festival.

Disrupt explores the devastation that methamphetamine has on a whānau and follows an elderly Māori woman’s desperation to help her grandson overcome his addiction.

The film screened in the city of Mayagüez in Puerto Rico and won the top award at the country’s annual film festival.

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