Step 1 - SHORT-FILM
​Shooting:  9-22 July 2018 - Auckland & Wellington

In post-production with Filmmaker Ed Davis
(Cameraman, Steady-cam, Director of photography, Lights, Sounds, SFX, Post Production)  in collaboration with Underbelly Production
Artistic Director & Author: France Hervé
Music: Bill Direen
Direction Assistant (script and pre-production): Frédéric Prévost
Script English version: Kenneth Spiteri & France Hervé 
Line manager (Set, props, design, child Cast) Tessa Mitchell​
CAST = Technical assistants + Craft making 
Featuring:
Kilda Northcott (The Mother), Kristian Larsen (Owen), Jeremy Randerson (Dalman), Kenneth Spiteri (Joe), Tessa Mitchell (Patricia), Bert Van Dijk (Ray), Sian Holmes (Ys)
 Moko Smith (Tattoo Artist), Aroha Yates Smith, Hayley May, 
Rufus Holmes (Teenage Owen),  Antonio Mahugo ( Young Joe), 
Thomas Marsh (Young Dalman)
John and Patricia Campbell ( Grand parents), 
Heather Lee, Arran Reardon, Ed Davis ( Ray's business partners)
 Salomon Randerson (Young Myrrdin)
Bill Direen (Myrrdin voice)
 

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SYNOPSIS:
An old woman, Wendy, losing her memory, gets her back tattooed with a maori motif on her 80th birthday.  The event is such a shock to her sons it causes them to make an urgent decision over her future. Meanwhile, they have their own imperatives to settle. Owen, the eldest, designer in aeronautics, is out of reach. Dalman, an actor living between hotels, is out of work. Joe is out of his depth in his new position as private driver for Ray, a tentacular powerful man. However, Joe takes his mother into his home: a very small house with an idyllic garden where with Patricia, his wife who is a landscaper, he places all his dreams. Their only bedroom is prepared for Wendy. But that very night she passes away.
It is only after scattering her ashes into the sea, that the brothers realise they did not take the time to discover what their mother had tattooed on her skin. On their way back, in exchange for their mother's remains, they catch the strangest of creatures: an original mythical being, escaping the temptation of definitive outline - an Octopus.

Featuring:  Kilda Northcott (Wendy), Kristian Larsen (Owen), Jeremy Randerson (Dalman), Kenneth Spiteri (Joe), Tessa Mitchell (Patricia), Bill Direen (Myrrdin),
Bert Van Dijk (Ray) , Moko Smith (Tattoo Artist), Rufus Holmes (Young Owen), Thomas Marsh ( Young Dalman), Antonio Mahugo ( Young Joe),
​Sian Holmes (Ys), Salomon Randerson (Young Myrrdin), Nassy, the Octopus.