“It’s Traveled Beyond What We Ever Thought” – Our Chat With the Director of ‘Three Wise Cousins’

Three Wise Cousins is one of the best success stories to come out of our filmmaking shores this year. In its first week of release, it scooped up almost $200,000 playing in just eight screens. For scale, Doctor Strange gained six times as much money but in 178 screens!

The romantic comedy follows a 22-year-old Samoan-Kiwi looking to impress a woman who only wants to go out with a ‘real island guy’. So, he journeys to Samoa to get advice from those who can teach him best – his cousins.

The film is available on Blu-ray, DVD and iTunes. We had a chat with filmmaker Stallone Vaiaoga-Ioasa about the film’s success, the audience it tapped into, and his thoughts on Disney’s upcoming Moana.