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Watch: 15-year-old Queenstown boy wins film award after secret entry

by NZ Herald — December 30, 2020

Kane Viggers staring in his film ‘Miss You’. Phot / NZ On Screen

When a letter was handed to a Wakatipu High schooler in the pouring rain at Branches Camp he had no idea what it was about.

A moment later and Kane Viggers was elated — winning New Zealand On Screen’s ScreenTest schools’ comp after his teacher secretly entered him.

Jennifer Smart had encouraged the budding filmmaker to enter the national competition, but he’d shied away having not come up with any movies to match this year’s theme of ‘justice’.

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