Two Cars, One Night
A tale of first love. While waiting for their parents, two boys and a girl meet in the carpark of a rural pub. What at first seems to be a relationship based on rivalry soon develops into a close friendship. We learn that love can be found in the most unlikely of places.
Courtesy of Te Tumu Whakaata Taonga New Zealand Film Commission
- New Zealand
- 2004, 11 min
- Director: Taika Waititi
- Director of photography: Adam Clark
- Editor: Owen Ferrier-kerr
- Screenplay: Taika Waititi
- Music: Craig Sengelow
- Cast: Rangi Ngamoki, Hutini Waikato, Te Ahiwaru Ngamoki-Richards
- Art Director: Simon Harper
- Producer: Ainsley Gardiner, Catherine Fitzgerald
- Production: Defender Films Ltd
Taika Waititi
Taika Waititi is of Te-Whanau-a-Apanui descent and hails from the Raukokore region on the east coast of New Zealand’s North Island. His first short, Two Cars, One Night (2004) earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Live Action Short Film. He co-wrote, co-directed, and starred in the horror comedy film What We Do in the Shadows (2014). His most recent directing credits include the superhero film Thor: Ragnarok (2017) and the black comedy Jojo Rabbit (2019). Jojo Rabbit received six Academy Award nominations and won Best Adapted Screenplay. In addition to directing an episode of the television series The Mandalorian (2019–present), he also voices the character IG-11, for which he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance.