Sundance: Boy's Taika Waititi and James Rolleston

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Society & Culture

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🗓️ 11 February 2010

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Taika Waititi is the writer, director and star of "Boy," which premiered at this year's Sundance Film Festival. James Rolleston is his pre-teen co-star. The film, based on Waititi's Oscar-nominated short, is a funny and affecting coming-of-age story set in a rural New Zealand village. Waititi previously directed "Eagle vs. Shark."

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0:35.5	It's the Sound of Young America.
0:36.9	I'm your host, Jesse Thorne.
0:38.8	This is the second in our series of shows recorded live on tape
0:42.4	at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.
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0:58.3	James Rolliston is the 11-year-old star of the movie,
1:02.4	Boy, which premiered at Sundance,
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