Big Girls Don’t Cry opens NZ International Film Festival
Paloma Schneideman's debut feature, a New Zealand coming-of-age story, opens the country's film festival after winning major international awards.
Big Girls Don't Cry, a New Zealand coming-of-age film set around Omaha in the early 2000s, has opened the NZ International Film Festival. The film follows 14-year-old Sid as she navigates adolescence, sexuality and the arrival of her sister's American friend. Schneideman's debut feature has already won awards at Sundance and the Biarritz Film Festival before its New Zealand cinema release on 8 October.
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Big Girls Don’t Cry opens the NZ International Film Festival – and a vein
Off the back of a big win at Biarritz, Paloma Schneideman’s unmistakably New Zealand coming-of-age film has arrived to transport audiences to the lonely aching of adolescence. Ani Palmer plays 14-year-old Sid as she stumbles through a Kiwi summer around…