Next stop Oscar?

Taika Waititi’s Two Cars, One Night won the Grand Jury Prize for best international short at the AFI Los Angeles Film Festival. The story of a relationship which develops between two children in the car park of a rural NZ pub beat 50 other contenders in the international short category. Two Cars has already won a slew of international awards, including best drama at the Aspen Shortsfest, best short film at Berlin’s Panorama Film Festival and best fiction short at the Melbourne International Film Festival, and is now eligible for Oscar contention.