INDUSTRY
MFF INDUSTRY PASS For those working in the screen industry, these passes provide access to both industry only and public events as well as one ticket per screening. • You need a physical ticket to enter any event. These can be claimed by showing your Industry Pass at The Māoriland Hub, 68 Main St Ōtaki. • We recommend you select your tickets before the festival. Information on how to do this will be provided to pass holders via email. If you choose not to use a ticket, please return it to the Ticket Office so someone else can enjoy the film. • Your pass does not guarantee you a ticket if sessions are sold out. • Industry passes are not transferable. • Lost passes cannot be reprinted. • Closing Night Party. Due to limited numbers you must RSVP to attend this party by Friday 19th March 6 pm at the latest, to ensure your ticket. Industry passes can be collected from the Manuwhiri desk at the Māoriland Hub, 68 Main St Ōtaki from Tuesday, March 23, 2021. In case of cancellation, refunds will be made available. In this scenario, please consider donating your booking fee ($1.50 per ticket) as this supports Māoriland to pay our friends at iTicket to process all ticket changes.
Specia al Events Pōwhiri Wed 24 March - 11:00 AM Raukawa Marae The formal welcome to manuwhiri tūārangi and official guests of MFF2021. Raukawa marae is the principal meeting place of Ngāti Raukawa Au Ki Te Tonga. Raukawa Marae is one of five closely linked marae in the district. The other marae are Te Pou o Tainui (Ōtaki), Katihiku Marae (Ōtaki) Wehiwehi (Manakau) and Tukorehe (Kuku).
Official blessing of the Māoriland Filmmaker's Residency Wed 24 Mar - 1:30 PM Māoriland Hub The first filmmaker residence in Aotearoa, Māoriland Filmmaker's Residency is a dedicated home for Māori and Indigenous filmmakers to create their film projects whether at concept, pre, production or postproduction.
Mā āorila and Keynote e Address na Owen n Ren Wed 24 Mar - 6:00 PM Rangiātea Church The Māoriland Keynote address is a personal and historical perspective given by a prominent Māori filmmaker. It is presented at Rangiātea Church. Past keynote speakers were Tainui Stephens, Lawrence Makoare, Larry Parr, Julian and Mabelle Dennison, Rawiri Paratene, Heperi and Awatea Mita and Temuera Morrison. Multi-award-winning actor Rena Owen will deliver the 2021 address. Visit maorilandfilm.co.nz for more information.
Mahia te Mahi hei oranga mō te Iwi Working in support of the screen industry presented by Te Tumu Whakaata Taonga New Zealand Film Commission Rautaki Māori Wed 24 Mar - 2:00 pm Māoriland Hub
Te Aupounamu Māori Screen Excellence Award Wed 24 Mar - 4:00 pm Māoriland Hub Te Aupounamu Māori Screen Excellence Award has been established alongside Te Rautaki Māori o Te Tumu Whakaata Taonga; the New Zealand Film Commission’s Māori Strategy. The annual award recognises and celebrates members of the Māori filmmaking community who have displayed a high-level of contribution and/or achievement in screen excellence. CEO Annabelle Sheehan and Pouwhakahaere Te O Kahurangi Waaka will announce the 2021 recipient of the award at Māoriland Film Festival in the Māoriland Hub on Wednesday 24 March 2021 at 4pm, following our Te Rautaki Strategy Review hui on 2pm-4pm
OPENING NIGHT SCREENING
CO OUSINS Wed 24 Mar - 8:00 PM Memorial Hall Director: Ainsley Gardiner, Briar Grace Smith Producer: Georgina Conder, Ainsley Gardiner and Libby Hakaraia Language: English Duration: 98 mins Year: 2021 Nation: Ngā Puhi, Ngāti Wai,Te-Whānau a Apanui, Ngāti Pikiao and Ngāti Awa, Ngāti Raukawa, Ngāti Toa Rangatira, Te Āti Awa - Aotearoa Join the cast and crew of COUSINS for this red carpet screening. Based on Patricia Grace’s much loved novel, Cousins is co-directed by Briar GraceSmith and Ainsley Gardiner. Cousins is a powerful story of three cousins who spend a lifetime in search of each other, separated by circumstances yet connected by blood.
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In ndustrry How Is Everyone Going?
Māoriland Pitch
Thu 25 Mar - 8:00 AM - online
Thu 25 Mar - 11:00 AM Māoriland Maara
A digital catchup with our Indigenous filmmaker whānau. A chance to find out what people are doing, and how we all are. To register for this session go to maorilandfilm.co.nz
Kia hiwa rā! $10,000 in funding to be won at the MĀORILAND PITCH. The Māoriland Pitch is an opportunity for Māori filmmakers from rangatahi to established practitioners to turn a brilliant idea into a production-ready project. Visit maorilandfilm.co.nz to register
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The following events are open to industry pass holders only
Aotearoa Film Celebration.
SHOWCASE: Ngā Pakiaka Incubator Programme (NPIP)
Thu 25 Mar - 4:00 PM Māoriland Maara
Fri 26 Mar - 1:30 PM Memorial Hall
It's a busy time for screen production. Let's share the success stories.
The Māoriland Ngā Pakiaka Incubator Programme was developed during the 2020 COVID-19 lockdown to support 8 rangatahi filmmakers to produce their first professional short films. Supported by the NZFC, the Sundance Institute Respond & Reimagine Plan, as well as Indigenous filmmakers across the globe, this showcase includes a sneak preview and kōrero from the NPIP.
Industry Workshop: Story Sovereignty and IP Fri 26 Mar - 11:30 AM Māoriland Maara What does story sovereignty mean? How do we hold onto the IP in a project?
Ticketed Event (Free entry to Industry Pass Holders)
Industry Workshop: Tuakana Teina Fri 26 Mar - 2:30 PM Māoriland Maara Ngā Pakiaka rangatahi film leaders seek answers from tuakana filmmakers about creating opportunities, and holding a space for them in the film industry.
The Māoriland Tech Creative Hub is a training space for rangatahi to upskill and unleash their creative potential using software and digital tools. Animation, graphic design, game development, VR, XR - M.A.T.C.H aims to pathway rangatahi Māori into high value jobs in the rapidly growing tech creative industries. and problem-solving skills to develop and build creative solutions for our future. In late 2020 the first cohort of rangatahi graduated from the first six-week M.A.T.C.H Animation Intensifier funded by the Ministry of Social Development. This unique Māori-led programme enables rangatahi to develop core animation skills delivered by some of the best in the NZ industry while being empowered with the social and cultural competence to thrive. Upon graduation M.A.T.C.H participants enter 12 weeks of employment. With cohort 2 graduating in early March, Māoriland is very proud to present a showcase of the work made by rangatahi M.A.T.C.H graduates at the Māoriland Hub.
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M.A.T.C.H will also platform leading technology from Māori creatives including:
Umurangi Generation Creative: Naphtali Faulkner Nation: Ngāi Te Rangi Umurangi Generation is a photography game set in a post-apocalyptic future. The player assumes the role of a photographer during a global disaster event, which Neoliberalism is unequipped to handle. “Umurangi Generation is the best work of Māori science-fiction to emerge from our fresh decade.”
Papa Reo Papa Reo is a multilingual language platform grounded in Indigenous knowledge and ways of thinking and powered by cutting edge data science. Papa Reo will enable smaller Indigenous language communities to develop their own speech recognition and natural language processing capabilities, ensuring that the sovereignty of the data remains with them and the benefits derived from these technologies goes directly to their communities.
He Paki Taketake He Paki Taketake showcases the storytelling talent of our community through the production of high-quality te reo Māori content for rangatahi and their whānau. Based at the Māoriland Hub in Ōtaki, He Paki Taketake will see the reversioning of animated films into te reo Māori. Visit He Paki Taketake at the Māoriland Hub and watch four of the reversioned series of Island of Mystery made by Adrenalin and voiced by tamariki and pakeke from Ōtaki in te reo Māori. Visit maorilandfilm.co.nz for full exhibition programme
M.A.T.C.H - Māoriland (Ahi) Tech Creative Hub Showcase Fri 26 Mar - 4:00 PM Māoriland Hub Content based on tech and creativity is a rapidly growing multi-billion dollar industry. In 2020 Māoriland launched the M.A.T.C.H Intensifier programme - a six week creative incubator for rangatahi Māori. Graduates of the programme share their impressive work.
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Njuokcamat (The Tongues)
NATIVE E Min nds Saturday 27 March - Māoriland Maara NATIVE Minds is a series of interactive discussions examining how Indigenous thinking shapes our existence and our view of the world
Innovation In A Time Of Covid
Njuokcamat (The Tongues)
10:00 AM
Director: Marja Bål Nango, Ingir Bål Language: Sámi Duration: 5 mins Year: 2019 Nation: Sámi - Norway
We always have and always will; consider new technologies and methods to make films.
Framing Difficult Truths 11:30 AM Sexual harm, violence, sex; taboo subjects are part of our reality. In this NATIVE Minds session, we discuss with Indigenous filmmakers the way we might tell these difficult stories. We include a screening of multi awardwinning Sami film NJUOKCAMAT, Tongues. (This film is rated R16.)
During a blizzard on the tundra, a Sámi woman is herding her reindeer when she is attacked by a man. Her sister senses that something is wrong and starts looking for her. Wrapped in fear and confusion, both women will unite in their fight for revenge. Directed by sisters Marja Bål Nango and Ingir Bål, Njuokcamat is a strong visual and exploratory film story that deals with the taboo theme of abuse of women in Indigenous communities in Northern Norway.
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Nativ ve Min nds
New Māori Creativity 1:30 PM A new generation of Māori storytellers speak of new techniques and new platforms for diverse audiences.
He Ahurea Hou 3:00 PM In order to change the Industry we ourselves need to change; a discussion around workplace behaviors, social media toxicity, meaningful collaborations, and an Indigenous code of ethics.
9:00 AM
10:00 AM
11:00 AM
12:00 PM
11:00 AM Powhiri
9:30 AM MRFF - Koakoa Shorts 10:00 AM Wairua Shorts (PG)
5:00 PM
7:00 PM
8:00 PM
2:00 PM Te Tumu Whakaata Taonga -New Zealand Film Commission Rautaki Māori – Mahia te Mahi hei oranga mō te Iwi.
6:00 PM 6:00 PM Māoriland Keynote - Rena Owen
5:00 PM Daughter of a Lost Bird (Canada) 3:30 PM He Tū Wāhine
8:30 PM Baby Done (NZ) (M)
4:00 PM Industry: Aotearoa Film Celebration 1:30 PM Nga Pakiaka Incubator Programme Showcase
6:00 PM Dream Team (Chukchi) PG
2:30 PM Industry Workshop: Tuakana Teina
12:30 PM Industry Lunch
4:00 PM M.A.T.C.H Māoriland (Ahi) Tech Creative Hub Showcase
10:30 AM Docos from Latin America (PG) 11:00 AM Wai Shorts
5:30 PM Rangatahi BBQ
2:30 PM Ushui: The Moon and the Thunder (Colombia)
6:30 PM Bingo Shorts (PG)
1:00 PM Ka Huaka'i: The Journey to Merrie Monarch (USA) 11:30 AM NATIVE Minds: Framing Difficult Truths (R16)
8:30 PM Semillas de Lucha (Ecuador) (M) 7:00 PM Out of this World (M)
11:30 AM Haumaru Shorts (M)
10:00 AM Je m'appelle Humain (Canada)
8:00 PM Opening Night Screening - Cousins (Aotearoa) (PG) 7:00 PM Monkey Beach (Canada) (M)
12:30 PM Whakapapa Shorts (PG) 11:30 AM Industry Workshop: Story Sovereignty and IP
10:00 AM NATIVE Minds: Innovation in a Time of COVID
4:00 PM
2:30 PM Aotearoa Shorts (PG)
11:30 AM Hononga Shorts
10:00 AM Rangatahi Shorts For Tamariki - Island of Mystery (Te Reo Māori)
Rangiatea
1:30 PM Official Blessing of the Māoriland Filmmaker's Residency
12:30 PM Whānau Shorts (PG)
10:00 AM Whenua Shorts (PG)
Māoriland Hub
2:00 PM
11:00 AM Māoriland Pitch
9:30 AM MRFF - E Tū Whānau Awards
Māoriland Maara Memorial Hall
1:00 PM
11:30 AM MRFF - He Herenga Waka
3:00 PM
Raukawa Marae
1:30 PM NATIVE Minds: New Maori Creatives
3:00 PM NATIVE Minds: He Ahurea Hou
1:00 PM Love and Fury (Canada)
3:00 PM Homies (NZ) (PG)
1:30 PM Uma: La Crisis del Agua en Bolivia (Bolivia)
7:30 PM Free Whanau Outdoor Screening - Lady Buckit and the Motley Mopsters (PG)
5:30 PM Dawn Raid (NZ) (M)
8:15 PM Finke (Australia)
5:30 PM Closing Night Screening - Run Woman Run (Canada) (PG)
8:00 PM Red Carpet Party - Troy Kingi
4:00 PM Industry Drinks