
This movie was created in room 11 at Pt England school and out of all the Manaiakalani films this film was the most creative and most interesting movie to watch, in my opinion. This movie was inspired by Dora the explorer and they came up with Sina the explorer who is Dora’s Samoan cousin and the other characters included in their story was swiper, backpack, map and boots who I’m guessing is a monkey but looks like a dog lol.
The reason why I think this film was the most interesting is because of their editing like the music timing green screen and speed, not only does the editing add a touch, is also the acting like it is on point including the singing.
The story is about Sina who needs help capturing swiper who has stolen her bag unexpectedly which happened to have her delicious Sapasui(Her lunch)so she calls for her trusty hand dandy map which was surprisingly not inside her bag(Lucky).
Her map then appears and explains to her that she has 3 paths she could go: something tree, dangerous dairy and the jungle gym. They first went to the Something tree where Swiper was gripped on and brushed his body through the tree, curled and twirled and soon became too high for Sina to climb or even reach. Sina and her friends (Boots and the map) probably left for. a while and the swiper vanished off somewhere else.
Later on Swiper popped up at the dangerous dairy where Sina had coincidentally spotted Swiper entering inside the dairy. She walked inside to confront Swiper a get her backpack back but Swiper just wouldn’t budge and kept hiding. Couple of seconds after Sina had tried to find Swiper at the dairy, Swiper had once again escaped from Sina’s sight.
They chased and turned as Swiper was becoming closer and closer then suddenly they arrived at the jungle gyms which they started crawling, walking over a bridge, climbing ladders, sliding down slides, making it through ropes, swinging past the flying fox and FINALLY they had managed to capture swiper and said…
“Swiper no swiping’ Which is originated and is a classic saying made by Dora herself. I loved this film and hopefully in the future I can see more episodes of Sina the explorer or other types of cartoons that I’ve watched as a young kid!
Movie link : Manaiakalani Film Festival – Sina The Explorer
Our Class movie link : I Have a Dream