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Auckland – Tāmaki Makaurau
OFFICIAL MĀORI FILM WEEK PROGRAMME
AUCKLAND TĀMAKI MAKAURAU, AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND
JUNE 30 TO JULY 8 MATARIKI 2018
Ellen Melville Centre, Auckland CBD July 6 to 8, Pā Rongorongo, Auckland CBD June 30 to July 8
Central City Library, Auckland CBD, July 2 & 5, TSB Wallace Arts Centre, Auckland, June 30 to July 8
MĀORI FILM WEEK: FILM PROGRAMME 2018
FRIDAY 6.7.18 SATURDAY 7.7.18 SATURDAY 7.7.18 SUNDAY 8.7.18
Ellen Melville Centre Ellen Melville Centre Academy Cinema Ellen Melville Centre
Freyberg Square: Pioneer Women's Hall: 12 pm Mao'hi Nui Pioneer Women's Hall:
10 am Powhiri for 10 am Not Just Another (feature documentary) 10 am Seven Rivers Walking
International Delegation Mountain/Searching for the 12 pm Broken Barrier
11 am to 2 pm Long Lunch Bone People 2 pm Inuit Programme (feature presentation)
(DJ Session) 12 pm Mana Wairoa Shorts with Asinnajaq 2 pm Mana Wahine Shorts
6 pm Journey to Zygertron: 1 pm Māori Comicon Panel 3.30 pm Afternoon Tea
“Spacemen to Savages” 2 pm Māori Futurism Shorts 4 pm Out Of State 4 pm Waru
Experience with Troy Kingi 3 pm Māori Comicon Panel (feature documentary) (feature presentation)
4 pm Māori Futurism Shorts 6 pm Close/Poroporoaki
Pioneer Women's Hall: 6 pm The Breaker Upperers
2 pm Let Us Dance Helen Clark Room: Helen Clark Room:
3 pm United by Water 10 am to 4 pm 8 pm Te Makutu Shorts 10 am to 4 pm
4 pm Mana Wairoa Shorts Indigenous Worlds (horror and sci-fi collection) Indigenous Worlds
8 pm Indigenous Futurism (continuous programme) (continuous programme)
Shorts incl. Sound/Tracks Eleitina (Paddy) Walker Eleitina (Paddy) Walker
from Asinabka Festival Room & Marilyn Waring Room & Marilyn Waring
Room: 10 am to 4 pm Room: 10 am to 4 pm
Betty Wark Room: Imagined Worlds Imagined Worlds
Kaporangi Kiriata Lounge (continuous programme) (continuous programme)
VR demonstrations and
industry support Betty Wark Room: Betty Wark Room:
10 am to 4 pm Kaporangi Kiriata Lounge Kaporangi Kiriata Lounge
10 am to 4 pm 10 am to 4 pm
MĀORI FILM WEEK: ART PROGRAMME 2018
Pā Rongorongo TSB Wallace Arts Centre Freyberg Square & Bledisloe Lane
Kaporangi Kiriata – Natasha Kaporangi Kiriata: CineMarae Kaporangi Kiriata: Light Boxes
Keating, Kereama Taepa and Works by Natasha Keating, Tracey Kaporangi Kiriata illuminates the streets
Steven Paul Judd Light Activation Tawhiao, George Nuku, Tame Iti, of Tāmaki Makaurau with the art works
Sat 30 June, 6pm, then nightly until Sun Charlotte Graham, Ratu Tibble, Miigizi, of Natasha Keating, Tracey Tawhiao,
15 July; art exhibition daily Assinajaq and Matthew Randall. Charlotte Graham, Miigizi, Assinajaq,
Until Sun 22 July Kereama Taepa, Troy Kingi and Johnson
Tue – Fri, 10am – 3pm; Weekends, Witehira, Daily and nightly until July 9.
8am – 5pm; Closed Mondays
MĀORI FILM WEEK: ASSOCIATED EVENTS & SCREENINGS
Central City Library Kia Ora Shorts Whakapapa Film Festival of
Sci-Fi Māori Film for the Homeless Corban Estate Arts Centre Irsina & Matera, Italy
10 am Monday July 2 12 July, 13 July Friday July 6 to Sunday July 8
This will be followed by free food With very special guest Renae Maihi
served to homeless, from 12.30pm at Matariki Shorts
Pā Rongorongo. Lopdell Precinct. 4 July
Rangatahi Sci-Fi Māori Film Workshop
Wed 4 July, 10am–4pm Women of Waru (shorts)
TSB Bank Wallace Arts Centre
1 pm & 3 pm - 1 July, 8 July, 15 July
INVADERS – 1641: Steven Paul Judd (Cherokee) 2018
WELCOME TO MĀORI FILM WEEK – HE WIKI KIRIATA MĀORI
Wairoa Māori Film Festival presents He Wiki Kiriata Māori – Māori Film Week, a celebration of Māori and indigenous cinema
and multimedia in central Auckland. This year the theme is Māori Futurism, spread across nine days and seven venues, with
over 50 short films, feature dramas and documentaries. He Wiki Kiriata Māori presents a feast of futuristic and fantastic Māori
and indigenous art and culture, including Lightbox Art Exhibitions in Freyberg Place and Bledisloe Lane. Māori Film Week - He
Wiki Kiriata Māori is supported by Auckland Council and the New Zealand Film Commission.
SPECIAL EVENTS
OFFICIAL MĀORI FILM WEEK POWHIRI
FREYBERG PLACE, AUCKLAND, 10 AM FRIDAY JULY 6
Nau Mai! Nau Mai! Haere Mai! Join us for the official Māori Film Week powhiri (traditional Māori welcome), welcoming film
makers from across Aotearoa and around the world. Our registration desk is also open right after the powhiri. Then settle in for
a weekend of great films!
6 PM RECEPTION & RED CARPET 7 PM PERFORMANCE 6 PM FRIDAY JULY 6, ELLEN MELVILLE CENTRE
Come on the JOURNEY TO ZYGERTRON, a very special night themed on "Māori Futurism" with a live performance of tracks from
"Shake Your Skinny Ass All The Way to Zygertron" by Troy Kingi, official launch of Māori Film Week on to the Auckland arts and
film calendar, and some vey special surprises and treats in store (look out for laser beams, robots, savages and spacemen…).
Complimentary non-alcoholic cocktails from Seedlip and ginger beer from Hakanoa.
1 PM TO 5 PM SATURDAY JULY 7 PIONEER WOMENS HALL, ELLEN MELVILLE CENTRE
Join us for the first ever Māori Comic Con, with very special guest Steven Paul Judd all the way from Oklahoma City!
1 pm Māori Comic Con Panel 1 (Tane Panel)
Russell Brown with Steven Paul Judd, Troy Kingi & Dan Taipua (invited)
2 pm Māori Futurism Shorts (Part 1)
Steven Paul Judd Retrospective, presented by Steven Paul Judd
3 pm Māori Comic Con Panel 2 (Wahine Panel)
Special guest Māori video game designers and sci-fi writers
4 pm Māori Futurism Shorts (Part 2)
A collection of Māori and Pasfika short films curated by Leo Koziol for the first ever Māori Comic Con event
POROPOROAKI
PIONEER WOMENS HALL, ELLEN MELVILLE CENTRE, AUCKLAND, 6 PM SUNDAY JULY 8
Haere Ra to those who have travelled for the first ever Māori Film Week, from near and far.
Wairoa Māori Film Festival would not be possible without the support of our many funders and partners including
New Zealand Film Commission and Auckland Council
COVER ART ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: Wheku – Kereama Taepa; Māori Font – Johnson Witehira)
ASINNAJAQ – “EYES CLOSED TIGHT” ARTWORK FOR HE WIKI KIRIATA MĀORI, 2018
LET US DANCE PIONEER WOMENS HALL, ELLEN MELVILLE CENTRE, AUCKLAND, 2 PM FRIDAY JULY 6 Jacques Navarro-Rivera 56 min French Polynesia 2018 Two specialized contemporary dancers arrive to Tahiti to manage "Masterclass" of therapy by the dance with the differentl abled community. A young contemporary choreographer living in Tahiti and a young Polynesian dancer follow these 3 weeks of transmission of knowledge. UNITED BY WATER PIONEER WOMENS HALL, ELLEN MELVILLE CENTRE, AUCKLAND, 3 PM FRIDAY JULY 6 Derrick LaMere 2017 55 min United States “You can flood the path, but we’ll always find our way back” The 5 tribes (Colville Confederated Tribes, Couer D'Alene, Kalispel, Kootenai Tribe of Idaho, Spokane) of the Upper Columbia River unite on the water in traditional canoes for the first time since the Grand Coulee Dam flooded their traditional waterways 76 years ago. Narrated by Sherman Alexie Directed by Derrick LaMere Sponsored by Upper Columbia United Tribes a War Pony Pictures Production.
ASINNAJAQ – “EYES WIDE OPEN” ARTWORK FOR HE WIKI KIRIATA MĀORI, 2018
MANA WAIROA SHORTS PIONEER WOMENS HALL, ELLEN MELVILLE CENTRE, AUCKLAND 4 PM FRIDAY JULY 6 & 12 PM SATURDAY JULY 7 A collection of award winning films from the Wairoa Māori Film Festivals – 2017 and 2018. (62 minutes) NEW TAKEOVER – Stan Walker Best Video Māori Music Awards 2017 Music Video Stan Walker 2017 4 min NZ Director: Shae Sterling (Māori) MEKE Tim Worrall (Māori) 2017 8 min NZ The arrival of a trainer's daughter into the midst of backstage preparations before an important boxing match threatens to destroy the relationship between fighter and coach. Meke – Best Actor Māori 2018 PUORO Komako-Aroha Silver (Māori) 2017 13min NZ A story following the journey of Jerome Kavanagh, a young Māori practitioner of taonga puoro (traditional instruments used in sacred, ritual and healing ceremonies) as he revives ancient ancestral practices in our contemporary world. (documentary) Puoro – Best Māori Short Wairoa 2018 NATALIE Director Qianna Titore (Māori) Producer Eloise Veber Exec Producer Michael Bennett (Māori) 2017 9 min NZ A coming of age drama set in the Far North’s Hokianga harbour. On the day that 14-year-old Natalie is given a precious waiata composed by her deceased Koro, she is unexpectedly thrown into a journey that will leave her changed forever. Natalie – Community Award Wairoa 2017 TAMA Directors Jared Flitcroft (Māori, Deaf) & Jack O’Donnell 2017 9 min NZ Tama is the result of a unique collaboration between deaf and hearing filmmakers. Tama is about a young Māori deaf boy who wants to learn the Haka. On a near fatal car trip, Tama has to confront his family. In his struggle he begins to grow from an undervalued youth into a proud young man. Best Māori Short Wairoa 2017 SUNDAY FUNDAY Dianna Fuemana (Pasifika) 2017 15 min NZ A teenager and a solo mum prepare to have their own fun on a Sunday. "Tiger knows exactly how the world looks at her, but still fights to be accepted by her peers. Acceptance in this case is to be left alone without question." — Craig Fasi, Pollywood - Award Winner imagineNATIVE 2017 HERE TO STAY General Fiyah feat Three Houses Down Director Samson Rambo 2018 Winner Best Music Video – Pacific Music Awards 2018
INDIGENOUS FUTURISMS SHOWCASE PIONEER WOMENS HALL, ELLEN MELVILLE CENTRE AUCKLAND, 8 PM FRIDAY JULY 6 A special showcase of indigenous futurism and fantasy works, including a curated collection of shorts presented by the Asinabka Festival of Canada. Guest film makers, artists and musicians / DJs in attendance. 8 pm PART 1: SOUND/TRACKS & FUTURISM SHORTS Artists / film makers in attendance. WAIORA Toni Huata 3 min 2017 A new futurism themed music video by Toni Huata screening exclusively at Māori Film Week. SOUND/TRACKS Short films from the Sound/Tracks project bringing together indigenous artists, film makers and musicians to make a 4 minute indigenous futurism short film. Participants include Ziibiwan Rivers, Vov Abraxas, Xquisite Ghost and Asinnajaq. THE GIFT Steven Paul Judd 2017 8 min USA After returning home from his grandfather’s funeral, a young Native American boy opens a mysterious gift bequeathed to him by his grandfather. “Steven Paul Judd’s gorgeous paean to 80s movies features fairies in native mischief.” - LK. THREE THOUSAND Assinajaq 2017 14 min CanadArtist Asinnajaq throws a creative net into the National Film Board of Canada’s audiovisual archive, weaving historic footage of the Inuit into a stunningly original animation. In 14 minutes of luminescent cinema, she recasts the past, present and future of the Inuit in a surprising new light. TE AHI KAI PO 2018 Shae Sterling (Māori) NZ 6 min Ria Hall - Te Ahi Kai Pō - A lyrical and poetic music video. 8.30 PM Intermission - DJ Set by special guest DJ Zibiiwan Rivers, visuals from the Kaporangi Kiriata artists of 2018
INDIGENOUS FUTURISMS SHOWCASE (CONTINUED) 9.30 pm PART 2: FUTURE NATIONS INDIGENOUS FUTURISMS SHORT FILM PROGRAM Length: 35 min Curated by Asinabka Festival “With some of the most frequent tropes of science fiction, we see the conquest of foreign worlds, or the taming of the “final frontier”. But, what do Indigenous Nation’s from Turtle Island (North America) look like without the interference of colonialism? What stories and imagined futures are Indigenous peoples telling through film and video? In the recent blockbuster film Black Panther, we saw what an African Nation could look like without the interference of colonialism. Among other things, it looked like success, it looked like technological advancement, and it looked like political sovereignty and independence. Similarly, Indigenous futurisms also imagine realities and futures where Indigenous peoples are respected, where dystopian worlds are saved with the help of mythical Indigenous beings, or where the Indian Reserve becomes the site of safety during a zombie apocalypse. Future Nations is a collection of short Sci-Fi films from Turtle Island, which challenge stereotypes of Indigenous peoples, and that re-imagines what Indigenous futures can look like.” – Asinabka Festival DIRT Yamantaka // Sonic Titan • 2018 • 1:22 • Canada • English Dirt is a short animated Album trailer for the Canadian music group Yamantaka // Sonic Titan. Dirt is the soundtrack to an imagined unreleased 1987 anime about Pureland, a post-apocalyptic flooded world where they discover an exodus ship called the A’nó:wara, which has the last piece of uncorrupted, arable soil. THUNDERBIRD STRIKE Elizabeth LaPensée • 2017 • 1:30 • USA/Canada The experimental stop motion animation Thunderbird Strike follows a thunderbird flying from the Tar Sands in Alberta to the Straits of Mackinac in the Great Lakes, protecting the land and waters against resource exploitation activities. (Photo, below) WAKENING Danis Goulet • 8:50 • 2013 • Canada • English & Cree In the near future, the environment has been destroyed and society suffocates under a brutal military occupation. A lone Cree wanderer Weesakechak searches an urban war zone to find the ancient and dangerous Weetigo to help fight a gainst the occupiers. (Photo: Opposite) HOVERBOARD Sydney Freeland • 2013 • 6:14 • USA • English A short fiction film about an imaginative young girl and her teddy bear on a quest to travel in time after watching ""Back to the Future Part II."" STAR WARS - TRASH COMPACTOR SCENE Zoe Leigh Hopkins and Onkwawenna Kentyohkwa • 2014 • 3:13 • Mohawk The winning entry to #TIFFStarWars, a contest put on by the Toronto International Film Festival, where participants were to re- create the “trash compactor scene” from the original Star Wars film in their own Indigenous language. THE 6TH WORLD Nanobah Becker • 2012 • 15 minutes • USA • English Navajo Astronaut Tazbah Redhouse is a pilot on the first spaceship sent to colonize Mars. But a mysterious dream the night before her departure indicates there may be more to her mission than she understands.
NOT JUST ANOTHER MOUNTAIN ELLEN MELVILLE CENTRE, PIONEER WOMENS HALL AUCKLAND 10 AM SATURDAY JULY 7 NOT JUST ANOTHER MOUNTAIN Chris Davis 2017 31 Min New Zealand Auckland's One Tree Hill is a much-loved local icon, known to many internationally through the U2 song. The silhouetted image of a single tree on the volcanic summit is burned into the mind of many New Zealanders - so when that tree was cut down by a Māori activist, it provoked a strong emotional response from many. SEARCHING FOR THE BONE PEOPLE Zihán Chang 2017 25 Min New Zealand Mathilde Caër, a young French Literature scholar came to New Zealand in search of her long-time literary hero, Keri Hulme. She decided to undertake a journey with the view of fulfilling her fascination with the land and the people. MA’OHI NUI IN THE HEART OF THE OCEAN MY COUNTRY LIES ACADEMY CINEMA, 12 PM SATURDAY JULY 7 Director Annick Ghijzelings 2018 Belgium 113 min In French / Tahitian (English Subtitles) An ancestral voice recites the past, present and future of the Ma'ohi, the people of Tahiti. She speaks to Tanaoa, a young man in search of the fading identity of his people. Eye-witness accounts recall the nuclear testing done by French colonizers from 1966 − 1996 on the French Polynesian atolls Moruroa and Fangataufa, near Tahiti. The words can be heard to the hollow rumbling sound of a bomb explosion in slow- motion, resembling the roar of traditional Polynesian drums. The Ma'ohi sensed the horror around them, yet they were disempowered and could not turn away. Deceived and compelled through money and the seductions of modern life and dispossessed of their land, they gradually lost connection to their Polynesian ways, their resources, their language and their ocean. But the Ma'ohi spirit is resilient, it resists and it survives. Poet and political activist Flora Devatine’s ethereal words recapitulate and empower the voices of a people seeking the path of independence. Berlinale 2018
INUIT PROGRAMME: NIPIVUT OUR VOICE ACADEMY CINEMA AUCKLAND 2 PM SATURDAY JULY 7 A collection of short films that showcase the range of Inuk storytelling, curated by Assinajaq. (Film maker in attendance) QULLIQ- ARNAIT COLLECTIVE - 10 mins AVILIAQ: ENTWINED - Alethea Arnaquq-Baril - 15 mins In the 1950s, two Inuit women attempt to protect their relationship when pressure from their new colonial culture forces them to marry men. THREE THOUSAND Assinajaq 2017 14 min CanadArtist Asinnajaq throws a creative net into the National Film Board of Canada’s audiovisual archive, weaving historic footage of the Inuit into a stunningly original animation. In 14 minutes of luminescent cinema, she recasts the past, present and future of the Inuit in a surprising new light. Artist / film maker in attendance. NOWHERE LAND - Bonnie Ammaq - 15 mins This short documentary serves as a quiet elegy for way of life, which exists now only in the memories of those who experienced it. Bonnie Ammaaq and her family remember it vividly. When Bonnie was a little girl, her parents packed up their essentials, bundled her and her younger brother onto a long, fur-lined sled and left the government-manufactured community of Igloolik to live off the land as had generations of Inuit before them. KABLUNAT - Glenn Gear - 11 mins Based on an Inuit legend from Labrador, “Kablunat” explores the complex and intersecting histories of early Inuit and Settler life on the coast. Employing archival images, animation, collage, and time-lapse video, the retelling of this origin story unfolds in a poetic space between past and present, myth and lived experience INUKSHOP - Jobie Weetaluktuk - 2 mins This short-length film is part of the Digital Nation Project, a selection of film shorts produced by APTN in collaboration with the National Film Board for the Winter Olympics in Vancouver.
OUT OF STATE ACADEMY CINEMA AUCKLAND 4 PM SATURDAY JULY 7 Director Ciara Lacy 2017 84 min US / Hawaii. Shipped thousands of miles away from the tropical islands of Hawaii to a private prison in the Arizona desert, two native Hawaiians discover their indigenous traditions from a fellow inmate serving a life sentence. THE BREAKER UPPERERS ACADEMY CINEMA, AUCKLAND, 6 PM SATURDAY JULY 7 From the producers of Hunt for the Wilderpeople comes a new offbeat comedy. Fifteen years ago Mel and Jen discovered they were being two-timed by the same man. Bitter and cynical they formed, The Breaker Upperers, a small-time business breaking up couples for cash. Now, in their late-thirties business is booming. They’re a platonic, couple who keep their cynicism alive by not getting emotionally involved with anybody else. When they run into an old victim, Mel develops a conscience and their friendship unravels. Directors: Jackie Van Beek, Madeleine Sami 81 min 2018 Comedy New Zealand
TE MAKUTU SHORTS ACADEMY CINEMA, AUCKLAND 8 PM SATURDAY JULY 7 (Mature Audiences) A collection of darker themed films – suspense, horror, fantasy and sci-fi themed Māori and indigenous short films, including: KARIRI Music video Rob Ruha feat Tiki Taane 2017 3 min Director: Shae Sterling (Māori) GAS CAN Mattias Graham 2017 15 min Canada A Cree family in 1970s Saskatchewan must ask an old Farmer for help when their car runs out of gas while moving to the city. Long synopsis: Gas Can is a narrative short film (15min) about the cycles of privilege and racism on the prairies. The film follows the story of Anthem, a Cree man moving to the city with his family. Along the way, they run out of gas and Anthem asks an old friend -- the Farmer -- for help. The Farmer agrees, but not unconditionally, and he turns his back on them when they need it most. Anthem and his family are left with no choice but to take back what was promised, and when the Farmer sets off after them in a rage he’s left stuck when his own truck runs out of gas. THE HAMMER AND THE LAMB Jules F. Chin Greene (Māori) 2018 6 min Czech Republic In a world where multiracial, indigenous children are placed in settlement camps, a young woman escapes one night and encounters a mysterious flickering light. A re-telling of the Biblical story of Moses and the Burning Bush, The Hammer and the Lamb examines the psychology of self-sacrifice for women of color. FUTURE NATIONS Kent Monkman • 16 min. • Canada • 2005 • English Against the terrifying backdrop of a biological apocalypse, a Native teenager makes a perilous journey to the city for food, and to rescue his secret boyfriend, a drag queen named Tonya. LGBT Themes. MUD (Hashtł’ishnii) Shaandiin Tome 2017 10 min USA A women’s craving for a connection with her son, which is hindered by alcoholism. RONNIE BODEAN Steven Paul Judd 2015 13 min USA (photo below) Ronnie BoDean (film star Wes Studi) is the ultimate anti-hero – hungover, streetwise and badass, with a hustler’s heart of gold. When Ronnie faces his greatest challenge yet, babysitting his jailed neighbour’s precocious kid, the results are both hilarious and life-affirming. TE MAKUTU, THE CURSE Jonathan Zsofi 2017 20 min NZ Two star-crossed lovers in colonial New Zealand incur the wrath of a deadly spirit that follows them into the present where they must decide between lives apart or love and death.
SEVEN RIVERS WALKING PIONEER WOMENS HALL, ELLEN MELVILLE CENTRE SUNDAY JULY 8, 10 AM, AUCKLAND Gaylene Barnes, Kathleen Gallagher 2017 84 min NZ Who can deny that the city rivers of Christchurch and the braided rivers of the Canterbury Plains have been poisoned and depleted for the sake of agri-business? In one of the many personal anecdotes that drive this film, a fisherman recalls how the mighty Rakaia once pushed its way a mile out to sea. Aerial footage shows us the river today as it slinks into the sea, obliterated by the first breaker that crosses its path. In the polarised political environment of 2017, this film is a disarmingly peaceable one. It places the hope of change in a shared love of Canterbury’s rivers and riparian environments and a profound appreciation of their ecology. Filmmakers Gaylene Barnes and Kathleen Gallagher have taken their cues from the diverse collectives of Cantabrians who have been walking and rafting the length of the rivers, from the mountains to the sea, to educate themselves and others, about the damage done and the opportunities available for remedial action. Anglers, rafters, trampers, Ngāi Tahu, Fish and Game, Forest and Bird, natural scientists, farming families, old and new, all bear witness, some as designated experts, all as sentient inhabitants of the only planet we’ve got. (Notes: NZIFF)
BROKEN BARRIER ELLEN MELVILLE CENTRE, PIONEER WOMEN HALL AUCKLAND SUNDAY JULY 8 12 PM JOHN O SHEA, 1952, 69 min NZ Feature Tom, a cynical freelance journalist, meets a Māori family who offer him a job on their farm, where he falls in love with their daughter, Rawi. Her parents oppose the relationship, and he starts to discover the differences in the two cultures. Broken Barrier is the romantic story of Tom Sullivan, a young journalist, and Rawi, the Māori girl he meets and falls in love with. While writing a series of articles on Māori life in the rugged North Island country of New Zealand, Tom is befriended by Rawi's family. The two fall swiftly in love, but her family disapproves of her marrying a white man. Finally, a quarrel results and Rawi returns to the city to continue her career as a nurse. Their romance resumes when Tom follows her there; however, his family and friends raise a barrier against her. This, plus his unflatteing articles about the Māoris, once again thrust them apart. Tom goes off to the timber country, and in a stirring climax is saved from a raging forest fire by the sacrifice of a Māori friend. He is reconciled with Rawi and in their marriage is seen the hope of better understanding between the races. "Broken Barrier marked the first New Zealand dramatic feature to be made since 1940. Its production saw directors John O'Shea and Roger Mirams crowding into a Vauxhall with two silent cameras, one picked up "from a dead German in the Western Desert". Ditching dialogue for 'spoken thoughts', the pioneering film examines cultural complications in a romance between a Pākehā journalist (Terence Bayler) and a Māori nurse (Kay Ngarimu, aka Keita Whakato Walker). According to O'Shea, some viewers considered it "a dirty movie" for spurring mixed race relationships." -NZ On Screen
MANA WAHINE SHORTS PIONEER WOMENS HALL ELLEN MELVILLE CENTRE, 2 PM SUNDAY JULY 8 A very special collection of short films by award winning wahine film makers Sima Urale, Renae Maihi and Ainsley Gardiner. Preceded by a stunning music video by our goddess Aaradhna. Our “Mana Divas” showcase for today: WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE – Aarahdna (3 min) 2017) O TAMAITI – Sima Urale (15 min) 1996 STILL LIFE – Sima Urale (11 min) 2001 COFFEE AND ALLAH – Sima Urale (14 min) 2007 BUTTERFLY – Renae Maihi (15 min) 2014 MANNAHATTA – Renae Maihi (15 min) 2017 MOKOPUNA – Ainsley Gardiner (12 min) 2008 WARU PIONEER WOMENS HALL, ELLEN MELVILLE CENTRE 4 PM SUNDAY JULY 8, CENTRAL AUCKLAND (AFTERNOON TEA & DISCUSSION 3.30 PM) Directed by Briar Grace-Smith, Ainsley Gardiner, Renae Maihi, Casey Kaa, Awanui Simich-Pene, Chelsea Cohen, Katie Wolfe, Paula Jones New Zealand 86 min 2017 English, Māori Comprised of eight vignettes that document the funeral of a young Māori boy, Waru is a formally complex reflection on tragedy, responsibility, and the intimate grain of a community united in the face of grief. Made up of eight short films, each 10 minutes in length and directed by a different filmmaker, Waru is a formally unique and narratively ambitious endeavour. Each of these stories, presented as a continuous shot in real time, is an approach to the same traumatic event: the death of a young boy, Waru, at the hands of his caregiver. Using as its departure point the tangi (funeral) of the small boy, the film takes the perspectives of eight different women, all of whom are connected in varying degrees to Waru's family and community. Each vignette has a remarkable feeling of immediacy; taken together, the films affect like a thunderclap. A Pandora's box of difficult questions — around responsibility, guilt, shame, and poverty — is opened. These stories do not only dwell in the dark moments, however. From the schoolroom to the community kitchen to a television studio, humour, warmth, pride, and courage provide textured insight into a complex society. The first feature film made by Māori women in almost 30 years, and shot in only eight days (one day per short), Waru is not only an unconventional achievement in filmmaking, it is a remarkable tribute to the female eye, in particular, those of eight extraordinary Māori. (Jane Schoettle – Toronto International Film Festival)
Last Nomads of Everest INDIGENOUS WORLDS Helen Clark Room, Ellen Melville Centre Saturday July 7 & Sunday July 8 10 am to 4 pm Indigenous Worlds A continuous programme of indigenous documentaries and experimental works. 10 AM TO 11 PM HONEY AND OLD CHEESE Yassine El Idrissi 25 min Morroco Arabic 2017 Hassan (17) prepares to leave his mountain village in Morocco. He is going to his father in the Netherlands. But how do you leave your home, and what do you take with you? Hassan has got himself a visa. He is preparing to leave the mountain village Tizi N’oucheg behind and join his father in the Netherlands. Everyone in the village knows he'll soon be a foreigner. In a moving and occasionally comic portrait, Hassan says farewell to his friends, the land and its traditions. LAST NOMADS OF EVEREST Nischal Poudyal 28 min Nepal 2017 Last Nomads of Everest is a documentary exploring the wilderness of the snowy Himalayas. Covered in the snow is the Nurkum village that lies around Everest region at the height of 4000 m above sea level. This documentary tells the story of the last Sherpa family holding the traditional Sherpa profession of Mountain cow husbandry in the most extreme weather condition. Aesthetically presented, this documentary tries to show the redemption and pain while holding the old way of tradition in the backdrop of modernist way of life. The poignant and spiritual glimpses of the Sh erpa village, the people, the amazing costumes and their religious ceremonies are the glares of this cinematic treat. 11 PM TO 12 PM TAPUN SA WIN Sandra Pratt 14 min USA 2017 This is the traditional Dakota legend of beautiful Tapun Sa Win, a human Dakota woman who married Star Man of the Sky People. JUST ONE WORD 12 min Canada Jani Lauzon 2017 Just One Word – Synopsis Kim Morin is a successful Metis lawyer surrounded by luxury, security and Contemporary Native Art. Inner peace? Not so much. Kim needs things to be perfect. She wants the wrongs in her community and her family to be right. FROM THE EDGE OF SANITY Milana Majar 26 min Syria/Bosnia and Herzegovina 2017 The documentary "From the Edge of Sanity" is interwoven with the destiny of a Christian family from Syria. At the peak of the war two sons and a daughter of Younes Ayoub and Helen Alashehab leave the war-torn fatherland. Fear of terrorists and a desire to preserve the family together forced the 65-year-old Helen to go after their children. The family sold most of the property to pay smugglers to take them to Europe.The hero of the film, seventy years old Younes Ayoub, remains in Damascus...
Mara and Kaja 12 PM TO 1 PM LISTEN Min Min Hein 13 min Myanmar 2017 "Listen" is a documentary portrait of revolutionary artist Chaw Ei Then. Exiled from her homeland of Myanmar, she uses visually striking and emotionally unsettling performance art and artwork as a means of dissent, both to express her political views and to give voice to her victimized experience and inner struggles. LITTLE AINU GIRL Sugihara Tune 20 min Japan/China 2017 The travelogue of a little Ainu girl, Ruino, who goes to Taiwan to eat, sing, dance, and meet the indigenous people there. HINOWU: HAND GAMES 6 min USA Danny De Leon 2017 During a hand game tournament in Northern California, Danny de Leon interviewed tribal members about the importance of the hand games. THE BOY FROM TOKSOOK BAY 10 min Danny De Leon 2017 USA Interview with Byron Nicholai, a native Alaskan Yup'ik Singer, who has traveled the United States singing his traditional songs. He has performed for former Secretary of State John Kerry and former President Barack Obama. CRY WOLF Dianne Ouellette 2 min Canada 20017 Cry Wolf When I was five I lived on a farm and I had a beautiful dog. Y DOSBARTH MELYN - THE YELLOW CLASSROOM Dafydd Sills-Jones 2017 Wales UK 10 min This film offers a glimpse inside 'the yellow classroom' - the name widely given to classrooms for 5-7 year olds in Wales - at a bilingual primary school on the West Wales coast. The children cross several boundary-lines countless times each day; between learning and playing, between Welsh and English languages, between the human and natural worlds. We watch them on a typical day, as they begin to find their place in the world. 1 PM TO 2PM THE WAY OF THE ESCAPED Mattei Tom 20 min France 2016 In Corsica, in the ruins of Bitalza, Marcu, Battistu and Arcangelu spend their days under the mountain. One night they meet a stranger, a ukrainian man. A strange climatological phenomenon then appears. MARA AND KAJA, DOLINA, SAVA RIVER 15min Croatia 2017 Documentary short film about Mara and Kaja who live in the valley of the Sava River. They are two sisters aged 80, who live alone, have no children. They do not have any electricity, telephone, television, radio or cell phones. Nothing they do not need, they say. They do not know who the president, or prime minister, or cares. They are asylum simple beauty of life. SOVEREIGN'S WATER 16min USA Verel Moon 2017 In 2002 over 70,000 adult Salmon died at the mouth of the Klamath due to low flows and high water temperatures. In the summer of 2014 the conditions were exactly the same and the tribes took an active position in getting water released from the dams.
Gwala Rising 2 PM TO 3 PM K'INA KIL : THE SLAVER'S SON 19 min USA Jack Kohler 2017 Through a lens focused on the Native experience, K'ina kil is the story of Tintah, a young Native man, as he searches for purpose and peace in California's raucous, brutal Gold Rush. Near the minefields, Indian girls are kidnapped, for sex, and those natives who refuse to bend the will of the white men are hunted for profit. This charter-driven story tells of our country's fortune and shame during California's painful beginnings. GWALA RISING Whitney Anderson 13 min USA 2016 Gwala Rising in the Bwanabwana Islands depicts the revitalization of traditional conservation practices in the islands of Papua New Guinea. The community of Anagusa Island is combating the effects of climate change and protecting the coral reefs they rely on using gwala: the traditional practice of setting aside a reef or forest area to allow the ecosystem to recover. Gwala is helping the community of Anagusa Island prosper - empowering men and women with improved access to food and livelihoods. NOA AND NOEL Chris Wong (Anishinaabe), Candy Ranae Fox, Howard Adler 15 min 2017 New Zealand English, Cree & Māori A Beautiful conversation and exchange between a Cree Elder, Noel Starblanket, and a Māori language speaker, Noa Campbell. NIISOTEWAK Jules Koostachin 2017 16 min Canada NiiSoTeWak translates to “walking the path together”, and Cree traditional teachings claim that although identical twins are born with two separate bodies, they share only one heart. Through the eyes of spirited ten-year-old Inninewak (Cree) twin boys, Tapwewin (Speaking Truth) and Pawaken (Totem) explore and question the essence of their Being in relation to the world and people around them. STRONGFALA KULCHA / STRONG CULTURE Jarryd O'Keefe 2017 3 min Australia A warrior chief in a small village in Vanuatu prepares for a traditional war dance ceremony that honours the ancestral culture of his people. RECLAMATION Viveka Frost 2018 4 min Venezuela, Bolivian Republic A short poetic documentary film about Indigenous Identity. FLAT ROCKS Courtney Montour 2017 10 min Canada 79-year-old Louis Diabo battles against the construction of Canada’s St. Lawrence Seaway during the 1950s to save his farm and the Kahnawake Mohawk community. Flat Rocks weaves together breathtaking present-day footage of Kahnawake with archival photos dating back over 80 years revealing the community’s way of life threatened by the Seaway. A poetic narration in the Kanien’kéha (Mohawk) language voices the community’s connection to the water. 3 PM ENCORE SCREENING: THE DAY’S FAVOURITE FILMS Audiences throughout the day provide feedback on the films, and we end the day with an hour of the day’s favourites.
IMAGINED WORLDS Eleitina (Paddy) Walker Room & Marilyn Waring Room, Ellen Melville Centre Saturday July 7 & Sunday July 8 10 am to 4 pm Imagined Worlds A continuous programme of documentaries and experimental works themed on indigenous futurism. 420 IN MAHIA Kahu Kuranui (Māori) 2018 4 min NZ Take a trippy trip to Zygertron, as Troy Kingi’s beats awaken a world of Māori space age moonlight daydreaming. ASTRO BLACK DESTINATION PLANET ROCK Soda_Jerk 2008 5 min Australia The three future originators of hip-hop – DJ Kool Herc, Afrika Bambaataa and Grandmaster Flash – are abducted and transported across the galaxy to Planet Rock where they are schooled in the alien language of turntablism. (photo, below) ASTRO BLACK RACE FOR SPACE Soda_Jerk 2010 6 min Australia Race for Space gives life to Sun Ra's claim to have been abducted by aliens who schooled him in the radical potential of music. While working as a piano man in Chicago in 1943, Sun Ra is contacted by Morpheus who offers him a choice of two destinies. ASTRO BLACK WE ARE THE ROBOTS Soda_Jerk 2010 6 min Australia We are the Robots re-imagines the iconic scene in Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) where scientists use a synthesizer keyboard to communicate with an alien mothership. ASTRO BLACK ARMAGEDDON IN EFFECT Soda_Jerk 2008 6 min Australia Armageddon in Effect begins with the discovery of an ancient stone crosshairs at an archeological site in Egypt. Sixty years later a giant alien mothership emerges from a menacing cloud over New York City, hijacking President Ronald Reagan's TV statement in order to transmit a pirate broadcast from Chuck D, Flavor Flav and Sun Ra. AGOPHOBIA Benjamin Ross Hayden 2013 24 min Canada A time beyond humanity within a digital world. Agophobia is a new fear of the distant human past in a future where technology has manifested alL life. The Ram encounters fantastical beings, engaging to defy his place and escape. RAGNAROK Agne Agodeme 2017 8 min Lithuania The storm is coming. The Eagle is captured by the spirit of the doom. A bullet is fired to the eagle’s fatal battle. HUIA BOY 7 Fires Collective 2017 7 min Canada/NZ A transformative love story, reflecting the desire for the return of the sacred Huia bird, an extinct species in New Zealand. Made as part of 7 Fires (See HARD OUT). HARD OUT Howard Adler, Jessie Short, Candy Renae Fox 2017 3 min Canada/NZ A man wakes up lost and confused on the beach, and it’s a mystery of how and why he got there. This film was made as a part of an International Two-Spirit, Takatāpui, Indigenous GLBTQ+ filmmaking initiative called 7 Fires. It was collaboration between the Mispon Film Festival (Regina), Wairoa Māori Film Festival (Nuhaka, New Zealand), and the Asinabka Film Festival (Ottawa). NAME THAT FOREST MOVIE Jenny Fraser 2018 15 min A social critique of Australia social mores.
SPECIAL EVENTS
Kaporangi Kiriata: CineMarae
Te ao mai ngā whatu Māori – The World Through Māori Eyes
AV Gallery, 26 June – 22 July
Image: Tracey Tawhiao, Poster for Wairoa Māori Film Festival (2014)
CineMarae brings together, for the first time, a collection of artworks inspired by the kaupapa of the long-running Wairoa Māori Film Festival.
The collection includes works by Natasha Keating, Tracey Tawhiao, George Nuku, Tame Iti, Charlotte Graham, Ratu Tibble, Miigizi, Assinajaq,
Kereama Taepa, Johnson Witehira and Matthew Randall.
For fourteen years, the Wairoa Māori Film Festival has brought together film makers and artists on the East Coast of New Zealand to support
Māori film making and Māori art. Alongside the annual presentation of films, many Māori artists have supported the kaupapa of the festival
through commissioned and inspired art works. CINEMARAE is the first time these works have been brought together in one exhibition. This
collection commemorates an exhibition held at Taumata Gallery, Newton, in 2005 that first launched the Wairoa Māori Film Festival kaupapa
in Auckland. It was held under the patronage of Dame Georgina Kirby.
Moving image art works were presented as part of the film festival. Painted and printed art works have become the worldwide imaging
(posters, programme and online) for the festival. Commissioned works were also gifted as trophies to award winners each year, and many
works have been gifted to guests of the festival in the spirit of manaakitanga. Curated by Leo Koziol
All of the events occurring at Mana whenua hosts of
Māori Film Week are proudly part the 2018 Matariki Festival are
of the Tāmaki Makaurau Auckand Te Kawerau a Maki
Regional Matariki Festival 2018
of Auckland Council
www.matarikifestival.org.nzMĀORI FILM WEEK – HE WIKI KIRIATA MĀORI would not be possible without
our many sponsors and partners:
WITHOUT WHOM…
Festival Trust: Rebecca Collins, Witi Ihimaera, Leo Koziol, Louisa Tipene-Opetaia, Deborah Walker-Morrison (Chairperson)
Festival Programming, Planning & Operational Team: Aroha Rawson, Maria Tanner, Diana Hegan,
Lance Loughlin, Cory Lowe, Annie Rowntree, Kim Hegan, Jenni Gomes, Kayley Watene
Whenua Jury 2018: Aroha Awarau, Michael Bennett, Anahera Higgins, Jani Wilson
Moana Jury 2018: Craig Fasi, Ngaire Fuata, Misa Tupou, Stella Muller
Guest Artists 2018: Kereama Taepa (Wheku), Johnson Witehira (Māori Font), Natasha Keating (Trophies)
Lightboxes: Tracey Tawhiao, Charlotte Graham, Asinnajaq, Steven Paul Judd, Migiizi
Māori Film Week – He Wiki Kiriata Māori is presented by Kaporangi Kiriata Māori Film Arts Trust &
Te Roopu Whakaata Māori I Te Wairoa – Wairoa Māori Film Festival Society Inc
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