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STUDENT SCHOLARSHIPS NOW AVAILABLE CLOSE MAY 24 5 PM

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PRESENTING THE WAIROA MAORI FILM FESTIVAL 2013 PROGRAMME

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Kahungunu Marae, Nuhaka, and its smaller adjacent whare Te Tahinga Marae, will be home for a full weekend of screenings of new Maori and global indigenous film making. This year we've partnered with the local Morere Hot Springs community with extended opening hours at the pools, a shuttle to and from the marae, and a very special closing night celebration at the Morere Hall at the Morere Tea Rooms. Come join us at a film festival like no other! Nau Mai! Nau Mai! Haere Mai! Wairoa Maori Film Festival 2013!

Kahungunu Marae: Thursday May 30

3 pm Festival Open for Registrations
7 pm Reception for Film Makers at Morere Hall (Morere Tea Rooms) - all welcome

Hot Springs Open Until 8 pm for Festival Guests 
Overnight Accommodation Available at Marae

Te Tahinga Marae: Friday May 31

No screenings

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Kahungunu Marae: Friday May 31

10 AM OFFICIAL FESTIVAL POWHIRI

11 AM PASSING THE FLAME Canada
Director Katherine Marielle 65 min

12.15 PM LUNCH BREAK

1 PM WHANAU SHORTS
Booger - Tui Ruwhiu 3 min
Dog On Duty - Lennie Hill 7 min
I'm Going to Mum's - 13 min
The Chuck In - 10 min
Black Buster - 10 min
Kaitiaki - Tamati Ihaka 7 min 

2 PM SURFERS IN PARADISE Tahiti


3 PM HE TAONGA WHAKAIRO O TARANAKI
 10 min

3.10 PM ROAD TO THE GLOBE
- Mike Jonathon 52 min

4 PM BUSES ARRIVES

4.30 PM
SPECIAL POWHIRI

5 PM DINNER 

5.30 PM PASIFIKA SHORTS
Night Shift Zia Mandviwalla - 14 min 
Black Buster - 10 min

6 PM TROPFEST SHORTS
Sounds Perfect - Allan George 7 min
Booger - Tui Ruwhiu 3 min

6.15 PM MEET THE FILM MAKERS


6.30 PM PREMIERE MAORI SHORTS 2013
Butterfly - Renae Maihi 15 min
Maumahara - Tamati Ihaka 14 min
Wide Eyed - 11 min
Hitch Hike - 12 min
I'm Going to Mum's - 13 min
Dog On Duty - Lennie Hill 7 min
One Armed Bandit - Michael Reihana 13 min


8 PM BREAK (Cup of Tea)

8.30 PM MT ZION - Tearepa Kahi 98 min

Overnight accommodation available at marae.

Te Tahinga Marae: Friday May 31



11 AM TAGIKAKS ONCE WERE HUNTERS
Kia Jaaskelainen Finland 55 min


12 PM REDFERN NOW Australia
"Pretty Boy Blue" Director Rachel Perkins

1 PM REDFERN NOW Australia
"Joyride" Director Catriona McKenzie





2 PM SMOKE TRADERS Canada

3 PM REDFERN NOW Australia
"Stand Up" Director Rachel Perkins



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Kahungunu Marae: Saturday June 1

8 AM BREAKFAST

9 AM THE FLIGHT OF TE HOOKIOI

10 AM MEXICO SHORTS
The Doldrums or How to Cure Sadness 12 min
The Last Council

10.30 AM AUSTRALIA SHORTS
The Oysterman
The Chuck In

11 AM MAORI BOY GENIUS 84 min
Pietra Bretkelly

12.30 PM LUNCH BREAK

1 PM HEROES FOR MAORI EDUCATION 23 min 

1.30 PM TATARAKIHI CHILDREN OF PARIHAKA 65 min Paora Joseph


3 PM BUSONG by Auraeus Solito

4.30 PM In Conversation with Auraeus Solito

5 PM CHILDREN OF THE BOMB (Tahiti)

6 PM Reception    
                     

6.30 PM TE ARA A TAWHAKI SHORTS
(SPECIAL PRESENTATION)

Everything Looks Beautiful by Jenny Fraser
Mokihi by Ratu Tibble
Little Print
Fool's Love by Kerry Barber
The 6th World

7 PM MANA WAIROA GALA FESTIVAL AWARDS DINNER EVENING

Overnight accommodation available at marae

Te Tahinga Marae: Saturday June 1



9 AM YOGA & MEDITATION

9.45 AM PASSING THE FLAME Canada
Director Katherine Marielle







11 AM REDFERN NOW Australia
"Family" Director Catriona McKenzie

12 PM REDFERN NOW Australia
"Raymond" Director Wayne Blair



1.30 PM CANNING PARADISE 

90 min Olivier Pollet France
 






 

 

 

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Kahungunu Marae: Sunday June 2

Brunch served continuously 9 am to 11 am

9 AM GUATEMAYA THE UNIFICATION OF WISDOM 80 min Cassidy Rast



10.15 AM RAPA NUI TVNZ Waka Huia

11.20 am  TONGAN ARK 69 min



12.30 PM Lunch Break



1 PM South Seas Film & TV School

ROLLER DERBY SAVED MY SOUL
VOICES OF OUR FUTURE

1.30 PM THE SAPPHIRES 103 min



3.10 PM THE BEAUTIFUL MAORI HEAD OF ROUEN


4 PM MABO

5.30 PM  Dinner

Screenings relocate to Morere

Overnight accommodation available at marae

Te Tahinga Marae: Sunday June 2



9 AM YOGA & MEDITATION


10 AM HIRA HUATA TVNZ Waka Huia

10.30 AM MY ADOPTED FAMILY Tahiti

11.30 AM KAHUNGUNU 11 TVNZ Waka Huia

12 PM LAKE WHATUMA

12.30 PM REDFERN NOW

"Sweet Spot" Director Leah Purcell





1.30 PM IHAKA WHAANGA

2 PM AUNTY TUMANAKO TAURIMA


3 PM SMOKE TRADERS

4 PM ALLAN BALDWIN IN FRAME

5 PM Screenings close
 

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  Morere Hall Sunday June 2

7 pm Closing Night Celebration at Morere
Hot Springs Open Until 8 pm for Festival Guests 

7 pm Maori Music Video Collection

8 pm UNDERGROUND SHORTS 2013

TE MOON WITCH Lennie Hill 5 min
OUT OF YOUR LEAGUE 18 min
THE DAMAGING TRUTH 14 min

COME HOME Michael Joyce
DARK TEACHINGS Aidan Dickens 7 min
ONE DAY Nathaniel Hinde 5 mins
THE HUNTER Margaret Harvey 11 min

WRONG Lennie Hill
VITI by Dustin Bancroft 15 min


9.30 PM Close

Monday June 3

8 AM BUS DEPARTS FROM MORERE

8.30 AM POROPOROAKI AT 
KAHUNGUNU MARAE (ALL WELCOME)

9 AM BUS DEPARTS FOR AUCKLAND

The Indigenous Storytelling Imperative

NZ Film Commission
NZ On Screen
Film Archive
Film Hawkes Bay
World of Taika
Michael Reihana
Haka Boy
Skabmagovat

Ngati Ranana
Islands in the World Fiji

imagineNative
FIFO Tahiti

Beyond 
Hawaiiki
Last year, Tony Coolidge from Taiwan traveled to Nuhaka and the Wairoa Maori Film Festival. These Maori film studies students will be travelling to Taiwan later this year as part of a new cultural exchange between his group ATAYAL a and AUT Te Ara Poutama. More details coming soon...
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CONTACT US
Wairoa Maori Film Festival Society Inc.
C/- PO Box 85, NUHAKA
WAIROA DISTRICT
Aotearoa New Zealand
Email: maorimovies@gmail.com
www.manawairoa.com 
Ph.Chairperson - Huia Koziol (+64)(0)6.837.8854 
Ph. Festival Director - Leo Koziol maorimovies@gmail.com (+64)(0)211.434.113

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About the Festival

The Wairoa Maori Film  Festival was founded in 2005 with the purpose of supporting, recognising and presenting the indigenous storyteller narrative. We are a non profit, non political organisation Te Roopu Whakaata Maori i Te Wairoa - Wairoa Maori Film Festival Inc.
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