A shot from the film Stray with lead actor Kieran Charnock, featuring the North Otago landscape as a backdrop. Photo: Supplied
Stray, the first feature film by writer, director and producer Dustin Feneley, a New Zealand and Australian citizen, will have its world premiere at the world’s second oldest film festival in Moscow from April 19-26.
It was filmed in Cromwell, Alexandra, Luggate, Queenstown, Arrowtown and Otematata.
In 2016, after unsuccessfully applying for New Zealand Film Commission funding, the production team ran a successful campaign on the Boosted crowdfunding website and raised $125,000, the highest amount so far raised via donation-based crowdfunding for a New Zealand film.
Mr Feneley said the film would have a cinema release in the second half of this year.
