Mountain Scene
December 29, 2020
By MATTHEW MCKEW
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’.
Kane, 15, still had no intention of entering the comp when he was later struck with a moment of inspiration, exaggerating his own misery to formulate the plot of a short film called