DAY

5Rātapu / Sun 27th March

10:30 - 11:45 12:00 - 13:00 13:30 - 15:00 15:15 - 16:30 17:00 - 18:30 18:30 - 19:45 20:30 - 22:00

MĀORILAND DOCO #5 KEWEKAPAWETAN -

RETURN AFTER THE FLOOD (Canada)RIIS FROM AMNESIA: UNCOVERING THE FORGOTTEN LEGACY(Canada)

MĀORILAND DOCO #6LADY OF THE LAKE (Burma)

SOLOMON (Burma)

MĀORILAND DOCO #7IN FOOTBALL WE TRUST

(Hawaii/USA)(repeat)

THE PRICE OF PEACE (NZ) NATIVE SLAM FILMS (repeat)

MĀORILAND DOCO #8HAUTOA MA -

THE RISE OF MĀORI CINEMA& panel discussion

THREE WISE COUSINS(NZ)

(to be moved to Ngā Purapura if bad weather)

10:00 - 11:15 11:30 - 13:00 13:15 - 14:15 14:30 - 16:00 16:30 - 18:15

MĀORILAND DOCO #9 VOYAGE: INTO THE DEPTHS

OF KANALOA (Hawaii)RING OF FIRE (Canada)

MĀORILAND DOCO #10A PARISH APART (NZ)

VANUATU WOMEN’S WATER MUSIC (Vanuatu)

WHERE GOD LIKES TO BE (USA)THE POWER OF INDIGENOUS MUSIC:

NGATAHI - KNOW THE LINKS (NZ) & music films from around the world

MĀORILAND DOCO #11 ONE MORE WIN (Cook Islands)

VENUE KEY RAUKAWA MARAE - Mill Rd CIVIC THEATRE - Main St NGA PURAPURA - 145 Tasman Rd MEMORIAL HALL - Main St ŌTAKI MĀORI RACING CLUB - 47 Te Roto Rd

DAY

1Rāapa / Weds

23rd March

09:30 - 10:30 11:00 - 12:30 12:30 - 14:30 15:45 - 16:30 18:00 - 19:30 20:30 - 22:00

OPENING PŌWHIRI RAUKAWA MARAEHAUTOA MA -

THE RISE OF MĀORI CINEMA (NZ) 52 mins

MĀORILAND HONOURS RAUKAWA FILMMAKER,

LARRY PARR

OPENING OF ARTISTS’ INSTALLATIONS AND ARTISTS’ KŌRERO

MĀORILAND KEYNOTE ADDRESSACTOR/WRITER

TE WAIHOROI SHORTLAND

MAHANANZ Film Festival Premiere

09:30 - 12:30 12:30 - 13:30 SCHOOLS ONLY 13:45 - 14:45 SCHOOLS ONLY 15:30 - 17:00 18:00 - 19:30 19:30 - 21:00

No screeningMĀORILAND SCHOOL SHORTS #1

A selection of short films from around the world 7+

MĀORILAND SCHOOL SHORTS #2 A selection of short films from around the world 7+

MFF KŌRERO #1 KAITIAKITANGAPapatūānuku, our earth, is under immense

pressure. Films are a powerful tool. No screening THREE WISE COUSINS (NZ)

DAY

2 Rāpare / Thur

24th March

09:30 - 12:00 SCHOOLS ONLY 13:00 - 14:30 SCHOOLS ONLY 15:15 - 16:30 SCHOOLS ONLY 17:00 - 18:00 18:30 - 20:15 20:30 - 22:00

E TU WHĀNAU RANGATAHI FILM AWARDS STUDENT WORKSHOPSActing, directing, craft

MĀORILAND SHORTS: WHĀNAUA selection of short films

connected to family

PUBLIC INVITED TO VIEW AWARD WINNING E TU WHĀNAU FILMS IXCANUL (VOLCANO) (Guatemala) FREE WHĀNAU FILM IN THE PARK

BORN TO DANCE (NZ)

09:30 - 10:30 10:45 - 12:30 13:00 - 14:00 SCHOOLS ONLY 14:05 - 15:00 15:30 - 17:00 18:00 - 19:30 20:30 - 22:00

MĀORILAND SHORTS: WHĀNAU A selection of short films

connected to family

MĀORILAND SHORTS: WHENUA A selection of short films

connected to land

VOYAGE: INTO THE DEPTHS OF KANALOA (Hawaii)

MFF KŌRERO #2DAVE WHITEHEAD

Sound workshop

MFF KŌRERO #3Panel discussion about filmmaking in

the Pacific Islands, plus short film AHO’EITU (Tonga)

HISTORIAS DE LA SIERRA MADRE (Mexico) MEKKO (USA)

DAY

3Rāmere / Fri 25th March

09:30 - 10:30 10:45 - 12:05 13:00 - 14:15 14:30 - 16:00 16:15 - 17:15 17:30 - 19:00 20:00 - 21:30

SHORT FILMS FROM BASQUE TO BOLIVIA

ARTALDE (Spain) MINERITA (Spain)

MFF KŌRERO #4 A panel discussion & short films, indigenous filmmakers discuss

their challenges.

FIRST NATIONS FILMS Fresh from the

imagineNATIVE Film Festival

ABORIGINAL FILMMAKING:THE NEW WAVE

Short Films & Panel

NATIVE AMERICAN FILMSShort films & panel

IN FOOTBALL WE TRUST(Hawaii/USA) MEKKO (USA)

09:30 - 10:30 10:45 - 12:05 13:00 - 14:00 14:10 - 15:10 15:30 - 17:00 18:00 - 19:30 20:00 - 21:30 21:30-11:00

MĀORILAND SHORTS: WHAKAPAPAShort films connecting

us to each other

MĀORILAND SHORTS: WAIRUAShort films connecting

our spirits

SÁPMI NATIONSFresh from

Skábmagovat film festival

HEENETIINEYOO3EIHIIHO’(LANGUAGE HEALERS) (USA)

GOLDILOCKS AND THE BEARS (Canada)JILEL (Marshall Islands) ĀINA (THAT WHICH FEEDS US) (Hawaii)

& CLOUD MAKERS (Canada) FIRESONG (Canada) CHASING THE LIGHT (USA)

DAY

4Rāhoroi / Sat26th March

10:00 - 11:30 11:45 - 13:00 13:15 - 15:00 15:30 - 16:30 16:45 - 18:15 18:30 - 20:00 20:15 - 22:00

SÁPMI NATIONSFresh from Skábmagovat film festival

NATIVE AMERICAN FILMSShort films & panel WHERE GOD LIKES TO BE (USA)

FIRST NATIONS FILMS Fresh from the

imagineNATIVE Film FestivalLE DEP (Canada) NATIVE SLAM FILMS IXCANUL (VOLCANO) (Guatemala)

11:00 - 12:30 13:00 - 14:30 15:00 - 16:30 17:30 - 19:00 19:00 - 20:15 20:15 - 00:30

MĀORILAND DOCO #1SONS OF HALAWA (Hawaii)

THE ROOTS OF ULU (Hawaii)

MĀORILAND DOCO #2WAITING FOR JOHN (Hawaii)

MĀORILAND DOCO #3TE KUHANE O TE TUPUNA (Rapanui)

MĀORILAND DOCO #4TRICK OR TREATY (Canada) No screening

RED CARPET PARTYMODERN MĀORI QUINTET

& GUESTS

Full details available at

maorilandfilm.co.nzAll film screening tickets are $6 or a gold coin koha for outdoor

screenings and workshops.

Tickets available at

iticket.co.nzand from March 14 at the Māoriland

Ticket Office, Main Street Ōtaki.

See as many movies as you can, and have a wonderful time!

PROGRAMME

23 MARCH TO

27 MARCH

2016

PROGRAMME23 MARCH - 27 MARCH 2016

FRONT PANELBACK PANEL CONCERTINA FOLD / EACH PANEL = 115mmx210mm (FINISHED SIZE)

Kiriata | Feature films:

NZ FILM FESTIVAL PREMIERE OF MAHANA

Directed by Lee Tamahori (Once Were Warriors) Mahana brings Witi Ihimaera’s Bulibasha to the big screen in splendid style. Starring Temuera Morrison and Nancy Brunning, Mahana is a gripping story of fantasy, feuds, and family.

International feature filmsMāoriland Film Festival brings these international feature films to Aotearoa:

LE DEP Canadian feature awarded Best Emerging Talent at imagineNATIVE.

MEKKO Award winning feature film by leading Native American Filmmaker Sterlin Harjo.

FIRE SONG The Audience Choice winner at ImagineNATIVE in 2015.

IntroductionThe Māoriland Film Festival is held annually in Ōtaki on New Zealand’s Kāpiti Coast, just an hour outside of Wellington, New Zealand’s capital city.

Ōtaki has beaches, rivers, forests and mountain ranges and a welcoming community with a thriving Māori culture. This is what makes the Māoriland Film Festival unique.

MFF2016 celebrates Indigenous films from around the globe with the Sámi in the Arctic, through Europe, Canada and the Middle East and across the Americas to Australia and around the Pacific including Aotearoa.

From March 23 - 27th (Easter), we invite you to spend the five days of the festival immersed in films, workshops and kōrerō with the filmmakers. Vote for your favourite film and be part of the positive buzz that is MFF2016.

Nau mai!

Pakipūmeka | Documentaries MFF2016 showcases incredible documentary films from Burma, Mexico, South America, the Pacific, USA, Canada and Aotearoa.

Gain another perspective about the 2007 Urewera Raids in THE PRICE OF PEACE (NZ). Find out about the lives of young Native Americans in WHERE GOD LIKES TO BE (USA). Discover the reality of professional football for young Pacific Islanders with IN FOOTBALL WE TRUST (USA).

MFF2016 also focuses on the environment with films such as ĀINA - THAT WHICH FEEDS US, and CLOUD MAKERS (USA).

WorkshopsWant to know more about filmmaking from the filmmakers themselves including acting, hip hop, sound and storytelling?

Sign on for the MFF2016 workshops.

Details at maorilandfilm.co.nz/workshops

Red Carpet Gala You loved them at MFF2015! THE MODERN MĀORI QUARTET will take to the Civic Theatre’s stage on Saturday the 26th of March with special guests Jamie McCaskill, Matu Ngaropu and songstresses Kali Kopae and Awhimai Fraser. Dress up, Walk the Māoriland Red Carpet and kanikani to MMQ! Tickets limited to 300 only www.iticket.co.nz

Kiriata Poto | Short filmsMFF2016 screens nearly 100 short films from around the Indigenous world.

Explore how different Indigenous cultures connect with intrinsically human themes including: Whānau (Family), Whenua (Land), Whakapapa (connections to each other) and Wairua (Spirituality).

Māoriland will also screen films from our festival partners Canada’s ImagineNATIVE Film & Media Arts Festival (the world’s largest indigenous film festival) and Skábmagovat (the premiere Sápmi film festival).

BE SURE TO CHECK THE PROGRAMME FOR REPREAT SCREENINGS OF SELECTED

FEATURE AND SHORT FILMS

E tū whānau rangatahi filmsEach year, the Māoriland Film Festival holds the E Tū Whānau Rangatahi Filmmaking Awards.

The E Tū Whānau Rangatahi Filmmaking Awards challenges young indigenous filmmakers to submit films of any genre that are inspired by one of the E Tū Whānau core values.

Visit maorilandfilm.co.nz/rangatahi-filmmaking-competition/ for details.

Director’s noteThe small whānau behind the scenes have been working hard to make this our best festival yet. We’ve been out and about from Ōtaki to Ōpōtiki to Canada, the Pacific and many places in between. It has been an honour and pleasure to view a lot of fine kiriata and to bring these to you. Tēnā koutou katoa.

Thank you to all who support the Māoriland Film Festival, especially our patrons, co-presenters and friends of the Festival.

To all our rangatahi who are our storytellers both now and in the future: We hope that you will be uplifted and inspired by what you see, and by the wisdom of filmmakers from around the world. Ka nui ngā mihi maioha atu nei.

And to our growing whānau of indigenous filmmakers from around the world, who have travelled to be with us, or who have sent us their films: We are honoured by your trust and aroha. As we grow our indigenous film circle around the globe we have much to look forward to.

Tūrou Hawaiki. Have an extra-ordinary Māoriland Film Festival 2016!

Libby Hakaraia

Key event at MFF2016THE NATIVE SLAM A 72 hour film competition involving teams of indigenous filmmakers takes place three days before MFF2016. The results of this international indigenous filmmaking collaboration will screen on Saturday 26th and again on Sunday 27th, with the filmmakers present. Who will win the first Native Slam?

Free whānau outdoor screeningsJoin us at the Ōtaki Māori Racing Club to watch two hugely entertaining family-friendly films from Aotearoa:

BORN TO DANCE (dir. Tammy Davis) is New Zealand’s first dance film and features choreography from multi award winner Parris Goebel. It is a tale of Tū (Tia Maipi) who dreams of becoming a professional Hip Hop dancer.

Self funded film THREE WISE COUSINS has taken New Zealand by storm! This is a story of rediscovery and the pursuit of love, as ‘Plastic Samoan boy’ Adam heads home to Samoa to connect with his roots. THREE WISE COUSINS promises to make you laugh out loud!

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