WAIROA M AORI FILM FESTIVAL J 2018 M Q B W UNE 1 TO 4
ATARIKI UEEN’S IRTHDAY EEKEND
KAHUNGUNU MARAE, NUHAKA & GAIETY THEATRE, WAIROA WWW.KIAORA.TV
OFFICIAL FESTIVAL PROGRAMME KAHUNGUNU MARAE, NUHAKA - GAIETY THEATRE, WAIROA JUNE 1 TO JUNE 4 MATARIKI 2018 PROGRAMME FRIDAY JUNE 1 Nuhaka
SATURDAY JUNE 2 Nuhaka & Wairoa
SUNDAY JUNE 3 Nuhaka & Morere
8 am Breakfast Kahungunu Marae 10 am United by Water Feature Documentary (58 min) Kahungunu Marae 11.15 am Kiriata Pasifika Pacific Islands peoples shorts from Moana-nui-a-Kiwa (72 min) Kahungunu Marae 12.30 pm Lunch Kahungunu Marae 1 pm Kiriata Aroha Love stories in short film form Kahungunu Marae (51 min)
8 am Breakfast Kahungunu Marae 10 am Seven Rivers Walking Feature Documentary (NZ) Kahungunu Marae (84 min) Nuhaka
2.15 pm Ma’ohi Nui Feature Documentary Kahungunu Marae (113 min) 3 pm Official Festival Powhiri Kahungunu Marae
5 pm Dinner Kahungunu Marae 6 pm Kiriata Motu Honu Turtle Island Shorts (65 min) Kahungunu Marae 8 pm Kiriata Maori Aotearoa Maori-themed and Maori-made shorts (56 min) Kahungunu Marae 10 pm Close
12 pm Lunch Kahungunu Marae 12.30 pm WARU (88 min) Feature, followed by a facilitated group discussion in whare kai (2 pm) Kahungunu Marae 2.30 pm Pakipumeka Iti Short documentaries (60 min) Kahungunu Marae 4 pm Out of State (84 min) Feature Documentary from Hawai’I – Kahungunu Marae Marae screenings end 5.30 pm Dinner Kahungunu Marae
6 pm Reception, Gaiety Theatre 7 pm Wairoa Maori Film Festival Awards Gala Gaiety Theatre, Wairoa
10 pm Close
7 pm Bush Cinema Short films and outdoor projections, Morere Hall 8.30 pm Bush Cinema (Pt 2) More short films, edgy and alternative fare to end the festival, Morere Hall 10 pm Close
SUNDAY JUNE 3 Wairoa
12.30 pm Kiriata Pasifika Pacific Islands peoples shorts Gaiety Theatre (72 min)
2 pm Tatau Tatau “Tutira Mai Nga Iwi” Short Film Boil-Up Mash-Up competition, Gaiety Theatre 4 pm Kiriata Maori Aotearoa Maori Shorts Gaiety Theatre (56 min)
6 pm The Breaker Upperers Gaiety Theatre Feature Film (81 min) 8 pm Close
MONDAY JUNE 4 9 am Poroporoaki – Kahungunu Marae, Nuhaka
TICKET SALES Full Festival pass with marae stay, meals, all screenings, awards night: $150 Awards Night Tickets $50 available from Wairoa District Council and Gaiety Theatre Marae Day Pass: $10 (Friday night, Saturday daytime, Sunday daytime) Bush Cinema: $10; Gaiety Cinema: $10 per screening
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SPECIAL EVENTS
OFFICIAL FESTIVAL POWHIRI KAHUNGUNU MARAE, NUHAKA, 3 PM FRIDAY JUNE 1 Nau Mai! Nau Mai! Haere Mai! Join us for the official festival powhiri (traditional Maori 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!
WAIROA MAORI FILM FESTIVAL AWARDS GALA 6 PM RECEPTION 7 PM AWARDS COMMENCE SATURDAY JUNE 3, GAIETY THEATRE, WAIROA Nau Mai! Nau Mai! Haere Mai! Join us at the Wairoa Māori Film Awards Gala! With live music, short films and awards presentations, this year's awards gala focuses on the musical and film talent coming out of Wairoa. Join us for a night of entertainment, glamour and excitement on the red carpet of East Coast, Aotearoa! On the night: - LIVE MUSIC from international musical trio NRG RISING! - The Māori Futurism audio-visual presentation creating an immersive environment of colour, sound and light - Presentation of the eighth annual Women in Film & Television Mana Wahine Award - Presentation of the second annual Pacific islanders in Film & Television Mana Pasifika Award - Special surprise performances and awards throughout the evening! - Guests are welcomed with complimentary gourmet kai and one complimentary glass of wine - Full cash bar available Tickets to the Wairoa Māori Film Awards Gala are the hot ticket for the commencement of the Matariki season, and we expect this event to sell out. Join Us!
NRG RISING NRG RISING NRG RISING NRG Rising is the world’s first mother daughters trio to front fresh, fun and conscious reggae, showcasing soulful vocals & soothing harmonies. NRG Rising's fresh, female reggae has two main themes; one of fun, good times and love, and the other sharing messages that support selfdetermination through personal development, including messages of belief, strength, and understanding. Fresh indigenous world music with an R & B sound and feel developed from a reggae foundation. Soothing to the soul, healing to the heart and like rich chocolate for your tasting pleasure. Band Members: Benita Tahuri, Anahera-Pono Tahuri-Whakatope, Honey Tahuri-Whakatope, Bevin Hira
POROPOROAKI KAHUNGUNU MARAE, NUHAKA, 9 AM MONDAY 5 JUNE And now the end is near, join us to poroporoaki and farewell folks 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 Wairoa District Council COVER ART ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: Wheku – Kereama Taepa; Māori Font – Johnson Witehira)
KIRIATA MOTU HONU KAHUNGUNU MARAE, 6 PM FRIDAY JUNE 1 New short films from Turtle Island (North America), including works by Steven Paul Judd and Assinajaq who are two of the Kaporangi Kiriata international guests artists of the Wairoa Māori Film Festival in 2018.
WE ARE THE HALLUCI NATION Music Video A Tribe Called Red 2016 3 min Canada
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.
CREATURA DADA Caronline Monnet 2016 3 min Canada Six powerful native women gather up to celebrate a new beginning and the end of the world as we know it.
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 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.
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.
THREE THOUSAND Assinajaq 2017 14 min Canada Artist 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 (photo, above).
KIRIATA MĀORI KAHUNGUNU MARAE, 8 PM FRIDAY JUNE 1 GAIETY THEATRE, 4 PM SUNDAY JUNE 3 A diverse collection of new Māori-made and Māori-themed short film works, from Aotearoa and Australia.
NEW TAKEOVER Music Video Stan Walker 2017 4 min NZ Director: Shae Sterling (Māori) ROTO Louise Potiki Bryant (Māori) 2017 8 min NZ Inspired by Lake Wānaka in Te Wai Pounamu, acclaimed artist Louise Potiki Bryant presents a striking dance film that explores our consciousness and emotional state, embodied within the word “roto” meaning both “lake” and “within”. With this film the lake becomes a metaphor for our consciousness, and the surface of the lake is likened to our emotional state.
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)
TŪRANGAWAEWAE Neihana Lowe (Māori) 2017 4 min NZ A film that uses spoken word to confront questions about cultural identity.
PĀPĀ Ryan Alexander Lloyd (Māori) 2017 7 min NZ A tender portrait of a seemingly elusive father is told through the memories of his daughters. A bold short film with with an original score and sound design by Rosalind Hall (THE SILENT EYE)
SHADOW CUT Lucy Suess 2018 13 min NZ Shadow Cut is a portrait of the intimate relationship between artistic and thoughtful fifteen-year-old Boy and his best friend, Girl. Boy and Girl decide to take the long way home from school. But when Girl senses Boy is hiding something, their romp around their small rural town soon exposes their dreams, fears and secrets. Ultimately leading to a late night decision, that could change their lives forever.
HOW THE LIGHT GETS IN Any Beyersdorf 2017 15 min Australia single mother living on the fringes of society with her two girls wakes in the night with a unique problem – a light, shining from within her – taking over her life as it takes over her body. With Whirimako Black and music by Leonard Cohen (sung by SAY LOU LOU) and composed by John Kilbey. (Photo above: Whirimako Black in HOW THE LIGHT GETS IN).
UNITED BY WATER KAHUNGUNU MARAE, 10 AM SATURDAY JUNE 2 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. “With archival footage from the last Salmon Ceremony in 1940 and the 2016 tribal reunion at Kettle Falls, UNITED BY WATER offers an expansive and historical look at an important history that is often overlooked.” – Big Sky Documentary Film Festival 2018
KIRIATA PASIFIKA KAHUNGUNU MARAE, 11.15 AM SATURDAY JUNE 2 GAIETY THEATRE, 12.30 PM SUNDAY JUNE 3
WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE Music video Aarahdna 2 min NZ Director: Sophie Findlay MOON MELON Trina Peterrz 2017 9 min NZ A group of young Polynesian women trying to break cultural boundaries and gender stereotypes within their community find themselves and something else.
AIGA Isack Hoppitt 2017 8 min Australia In the wake of their mother’s death, Leiloa must teach her younger brother to cope without Mum’s cooking.
THE BOY FROM RAROTONGA Joshua Teariki Baker 2017 18 min NZ A grandmother is forced to look after a grandson she never knew she had. Now in a difficult situation, she must learn to accept the mistakes of her past and reconnect with family she thought had forgotten about her.
SALAMASINA’S DAUGHTERS Aruna Po-Ching 2017 14min NZ Salamasina’s Daughters is set in South Auckland, New Zealand, following two Samoan female chiefs, specifically orators, tulafale, a role traditionally for men only. Aruna Po-Ching follows a 73-year old grandmother and a cultural language teacher and we discover their challenges when speaking as a tulafale and what they are doing with their chief titles to serve their family and community.
KA PIKO Bryson Chun (Hawaii) 2017 9 min USA/Hawaii When his girlfriend dies during childbirth, Makana, a young Hawaiian man, must complete an indigenous birthing ritual with his girlfriend's overbearing father.
MY FRIEND MICHAEL JONES Ian Leaupepe & Samson Rambo 2018 15 min NZ Set in Ōtara, New Zealand, 'My Friend Michael Jones' features an eclectic ensemble of Pasifika characters dealing with issues relating to anxiety disorder, bullying, LGBTQI and suicide prevention. Photo (above): Villa Junior Lemanu as MJ/Michael Jones.
KIRIATA AROHA KAHUNGUNU MARAE, 1 PM SATURDAY JUNE 2
IF ONLY Music Video Teeks NZ 3 min 2017 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. Photo (above): Eds Eramiha, Temuera Morrison and Cian Elyse Waiti in MEKE.
KOTUKU RERENGA RUA (KOTUKU’S SECOND FLIGHT) Tim Worrall (Māori) & Aaron Smart 2017 3 min NZ A larger-than-life Māori academic is returned to the land of the living by the power of love and the strength of his culture. This three minute documentary is made in Måori and subtitled in English.
BLUE MOON Olive Jeffares 2017 9 min NZ A girl deals with the aftermath of a break-up by spending the day alone and writing in the process.
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.
LAST DRINK AT FRIDA’S Bjorn Stewart (Kuku Yalanji tribe) 12 min Australia Sydney, 1944. A lonely married jazz singer and a troubled Indigenous soldier find solace in an underground speak easy, where the rules of the outside world don’t apply.
FMRL Ngaru Garland (Māori) 13 min NZ A 24-hour romance between Tom, the awkward art student who can’t talk to anyone, and Ally, the friendly drug dealer who can’t open up.
MA’OHI NUI IN THE HEART OF THE OCEAN MY COUNTRY LIES KAHUNGUNU MARAE, 2.15 PM SATURDAY JUNE 2 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 slowmotion, 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
SEVEN RIVERS WALKING KAHUNGUNU MARAE, 10 AM SUNDAY JUNE 3 Directors Gaylene Barnes, Kathleen Gallagher 2017 84 min NZ With walkers, rafters, farmers and fishing folk, we journey the alpine to spring rivers of Canterbury. This lyrical documentary from New Zealand is an intimate portrait of the struggles around water – globally the most precious resource of our time.
WARU KAHUNGUNU MARAE, 12.30 PM SUNDAY JUNE 2 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)
PAKIPUMEKA ITI KAHUNGUNU MARAE, 2.30 PM SUNDAY JUNE 3 A diverse collection of short documentaries from Aotearoa and around the world.
INANGA Philadelphia Mete King (Māori) 2017 5 min NZ A film that brings us along for the ride with a local community working to help inanga (whitebait).
NOA AND NOEL Chris Wong (Anishinaabe), Candy Ranae Fox, Howard Adler 15 min 2017 New Zealand English, Cree & Māori w/ Eng. Subs 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.
AKAU – BEGINNINGS Rowena Baines 2016 11 min NZ This short documentary follows the story of Te Teira Rakete, one of the first students to participate in the Akau architecture and design course in Kaikohe. Despite coming from humble beginnings, he is empowered by the chance to help design a local marae and the door to his future opens wide.
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.
OUT OF STATE KAHUNGUNU MARAE, 4 PM SUNDAY JUNE 3 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. It's from this unlikely setting that David and Hale finish their terms and return to Hawaii, hoping for a fresh start. Eager to prove to themselves and to their families that this experience has changed them forever, David and Hale struggle with the hurdles of life as formerly incarcerated men, asking the question: can you really go home again? OUT OF STATE will be poreceded by the following short film:
“PRAISE SONG FOR OCEANIA” Justyn Ah Chong (Olonā Media) 2017 5 mins United States "Praise Song for Oceania" is a video poem about the ecologies, histories, politics, economies, and the cultures of the Ocean. Poem is written by Chamorro poet Craig Santos Perez and video was created by Hawaiian filmmaker Justyn Ah Chong of Olonā Media.
THE BREAKER UPPERERS GAIETY THEATRE, WAIROA 4 PM SUNDAY JUNE 3 2018 81 min New Zealand Directors Jackie Van Beek & Madeleine Sami Executive Producer: Taika Waititi (Māori), James Wallace Producer: Carthew Neal, Ainsley Gardiner (Māori), Georgina Conder Principal Cast: Jackie van Beek, Madeleine Sami, Celia Pacquola, James Rolleston, Ana Scotney 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.
KIRIATA NGĀHERE / BUSH CINEMA MORERE HALL, MORERE 7 PM TO 10 PM SUNDAY JUNE 3 PART I: 7.00 PM
KARIRI Music video Rob Ruha feat Tiki Taane 2017 3 min Director: Shae Sterling (Māori)
TE AKAU Eraina A McGrath 2017 16 min NZ A story about first love, loss, loneliness and having to make a decision that could change her life forever.
TWO STEPS BEHIND Onehou Strickland 8 min NZ Pressures from the world they live in begin to make Chris think twice about older brother Mana and himself. Whether he lets this rule their brotherhood will see the course of his life forever.
SONS OF 71 Douglas Brooks 2017 12 min NZ Two brothers meet on the quiet winter streets of small-town New Zealand. A long way from the sweltering heat and chaos of the Vietnam War, a connection with family may be the one thing a returning soldier needs.
UKTENA AND THUNDER Joseph Erb 2017 9 min United States This story is a very old Cherokee story. Long ago, two boys feed a small starving snake. It grows up to be a large Uktena that fights Thunder.
CALVING Nathan Adler 2017 2 min Canada Waking up after thousands of years of being encased in ice, the voice of a creature is heard, emerging to find that the world is a much different place, although some things remain the same, he is hungry, and he is still an Apex predator, at the top of the food chain.
NEEMKOMOK Douglas Cushnie 2017 20 min United States Isadora, an Indigenous Californian (Gabrielino/Tongva) woman, faces a battle to survive after being emancipated from the abusive Los Angeles mission where she was raised in the early 1800's. She's helped by Domingo, a Franciscan friar, on the journey to bring her to a Native village where she can finally be safe. Photo (above): Nitzia Chama as Isadora in NEEMKOMOK.
Intermission PART II: 8.30 PM
A TRIBE CALLED RED: THE VIRUS Music video A Tribe Called Red Canada 2017 3 min A music video on indigenous futurism themes.
THE VIOLENCE OF A CIVILIZATION Adam Khalil 2018 10 min United States An urgent reflection on indigenous sovereignty, the undead violence of museum archives, and postmortem justice through the case of the "Kennewick Man," a prehistoric Paleo-American man whose remains were found in Kennewick, Washington, in 1996. Sundance 2018
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).
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).
VIVA DIVA Daniel Flores 2017 15 min United States Rozene and Diva are partners on a road trip to get their gender affirmation surgeries. Along the way Rozene comforts Diva with humor when Diva has trouble reconciling she has HIV. Relying on sex work to pay for their operations, Rozene places an ad on Craigslist as they drive through the place where she grew up.
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.
G’DAY CUZ Tom Avery 2017 10min Australia A man wishes to join a white power group but first must undertake a DNA test. Unfortunately he discovers he is not as white as he thinks is.
KIRIATA NGĀHERE / BUSH CINEMA KAPORANGI KIRIATA - OUTDOOR PROJECTIONS MORERE HALL, MORERE 7 PM TO 10 PM SUNDAY JUNE 3 PART I: PROTEST (7.00 pm)
LAND OF THE FREE Dianne Ouellette (Métis), Margaret Orr 2017 3 min Canada A spontaneous improvisation with the violin creates a response to the land.
STANDING ROCK Gabriel O'Byrne 2017 17 min United States Minimal in its narrative form, this is a poetic documentary on what life was like at the Standing Rock campsite during the #NoDAPL protests. It does not aim to educate the audience on why the protests were happening, or where the movement lies today. Instead, this film shows in a very non-intrusive manner, the kind of people that stood up to the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the kind of environment they were living in.
RALLY FOR JUSTICE Howard Adler (Ojibwa) 2018 12min Canada This video documents the Rally for Justice held for Tina Fontaine & Colten Boushie on Friday Feb. 23, 2018, on Unceded Algonquin Territory, in Ottawa Canada.
PART II: INDIGENOUS FUTURISM (8.00 pm)
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)
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.