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Filmmakers step out for NZ’s first International, Indigenous, Industry focused Film Festival 24-29th March 2015 OTAKI
PRESS RELEASE - for immediate release
Filmmakers from around the world will be arriving in Otaki this week ahead of the second Maoriland Film Festival.
Modelled on the hugely successful Sundance Film Festival, Maoriland is New Zealand’s first International Indigenous film festival and has attracted filmmakers from as far away as Greenland and Siberia. They will join indigenous filmmakers from Canada, USA, Australia and Latin America whose films have also shown in prestigous film festivals such as Berlin, Sundance and imagineNATIVE in Canada - the world’s largest indigenous film festival.
In the early 1920s Australian company Federated Feature Films Ltd proposed a New Zealand branch to produce feature films. Otaki was a suggested as a suitable place to establish a studio because of the town's varied scenery and "potent actinic rays" (white light). The New Zealand Moving Picture Company was established. At the end of the films produced in Otaki was the text plate “The home of Maoriland Films and the The Los Angelos (sic) of New Zealand's moving picture industry”
Now, nearly one hundred years on, the name Maoriland has been restored.
The Maoriland Film Festival is the first International, Indigenous, Industry focused Film Festival in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Our vision is to use a native lens
and iwi screens to bring the world’s best cinema stories,
those usually only seen at International Film Festivals, to
Otaki and to provide an opportunity to showcase our own
homegrown talent.
In 2015 filmmakers from Canada, USA,
South America and Europe (including the Sami from Norway and
Greenland), Australia and the Pacific join a large number of
Maori filmmakers and actors to share their films, meet,
talk and interact directly with the festival public over
five exciting days, 24th - 29th March 2015.
Films will be
screened at 5 truly unique venues, Raukawa Marae, the
historic Rangiatea Church, Hadfield Hall, the 1940’s art
deco theatre The Civic, and Te Wananga O Raukawa’s Nga
Purapura stadium.
With 120 short films, 11 feature films,
documentaries, dedicated school screenings, a youth
(rangatahi) Filmmaking Competition and numerous workshops to
select from there will be something for
everyone.
Maoriland Film Festival welcomes you all to
come to Otaki and Experience the World
Nau Mai, Haere
Mai ki
Otaki
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