MAORI & PASIFIKA CINEMA - PROGRAMME 1

This collection of Māori-made short films is an expression of Tino Rangatiratanga or self-determination. For too long, non-Māori told Māori stories, today in a contemporary context the Māori people are making their own films, telling their own stories.

With guest curators:
Leo Koziol, director of the Wairoa Māori Film Festival
Deborah Walker, University of Auckland, New Zealand

And guest filmmakers: Hiona Henare and Eloise Veber

Free screening

(see also PROGRAMME 2 : PASIFIKA, August 7, 2pm)

Films in programme 1:

MOHAKA
Music video by Toni Huata (Māori), directed by Jharaiz Khiriona, 2017 3 min NZ
The latest music video from Toni Huata tells a story of her home village of Mohaka.

THE TUHOE COLOUR
Sebastian Vidal Bustamante, 2016 11 min NZ
The Tuhoe Colour showcases Tame Wairere Iti – the New Zealand artist and the creative space he created in Taneatua at the centre of the Tuhoe heartland.

SPIRIT WOMEN
Hiona Henare (Māori) & the Spirit Women Team, 2017 11 min NZ
Spirit Women brings together a tapestry of unique film self-portraits made by indigenous women from Aotearoa, Fiji, North America, Phillippines, Hawaii, Papua New Guinea and Australia.

NATALIE
Director Qianna Titore (Māori) / Producer Eloise Veber, 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. NZIFF 2017.

TAMA
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. NZIFF 2017.

ŪKAIPŌ WHENUA
Director Kararaina Rangihau (Māori) / Producer Hineani Melbourne (Māori), 2016 16 min NZ
“He wahine he whenua e ngaro ai te tangata” For women & land men are lost. Nanny Oriwa an elderly woman sends for her beloved grandson to come home from the city to sort the inheritance of her land. She is dying and fears that her land will be divided, and with it her family. NZIFF 2016. imagineNATIVE 2016.

NATIVE IN NUHAKA
Hiona Henare (Māori), 2017 16 min NZ
Native in Nuhaka is set against the backdrop of the annual Wairoa Māori film festival in idyllic Nuhaka, where local and international filmmakers gather annually to celebrate indigenous films and storytelling.