WAIROA MAORI FILM FESTIVAL 2006

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The Film Archive Te Anakura Whitia¯hua 84 Taranaki Street Wellington Tel: +64 4 384 7647 Fax: +64 4 382 9595 Email: [email protected] BROKEN BARRIER, 1952, STILL S COLLECTION, NZFA TE TAURIMA WHAKAATA MAORI I TE WAIROA Wairoa Maori Film Festival 2006 Koanga ~ Labour Weekend ~ October 20th to 23rd 2006 Gaiety Cinema & Theatre & Takitimu Marae, Wairoa CONTENTS WELCOME TO WAIROA 2 Message From The Chairperson 5 Message From the Festival Director 7 Festival Powhiri 9 Festival Awards Night & Musical Showcase 9 FESTIVAL AT A GLANCE 10 TE AO MAI NGA WHATU MAORI: THE WORLD THROUGH A MAORI LENS 12 SPECIAL SCREENINGS Opening Night Gala: Ngati 14 In Conversation with 15 Mana Wairoa: From The Archives 16 Festival Centrepiece: Trail of Te Kooti 17 Closing Night: Mark II 18 NGA TERENGA MAHARA: STREAMS OF CONSCIOUSNESS 20 DRAMATIC FEATURES & SHORT FILM SELECTION Feathers of Peace 22 The Flight of the Albatross 27 Indigenous Short Film Showcase 28 Maori Merchant of Venice 29 No. 2 29 Pollywood 2006 30 The River Queen 31 Ten Canoes 32 Te Rua 32 The Waimate Conspiracy 33 Whale Rider 33 NGA ARA KI TE WHAKAPONO: PATHWAYS TO BELIEF 34 DOCUMENTARY & REALITY SELECTION Based on a True Story: Fat Freddy’s Drop in Europe 35 CAAMA Aboriginal Documentary Showcase 36 Elena: Pushing the Boundaries 37 Finding My Way 37 The Gathering: Return of the Whale Dreamers 38 The Kaipara Affair 39 The Last Resort 39 Rangatahi Documentary Showcase 40 Siva Pacifica – Last Voices of Heaven 42 Squeegee Bandit 41 Tau Te Mauri – Breath of Peace 42 Time and Tide 42 OTHER INFORMATION 43 Ticket Pricing 43 Accommodation Options 43 Getting to Wairoa 43 Acknowledgements 43 INDEX 44 1 Design by AppleArt Gisborne Print by Brebner Napier WELCOME TO WAIROA

WAIROA HOPUPU HONENGENENGE MATANGIRAU A feature of the Wairoa River is the opposing currents within the river. These currents become one as they enter the river mouth. This reflects a traditional trait of the Wairoa people to have the ability to put aside their differences when engaged in a common purpose.

It is in this spirit that Te Roopu Whakaata Maori I Te Wairoa invites the people of Aotearoa and the World to our turangawaewae, our place to stand, to celebrate and rejoice in the best in Maori and international indigenous film-making.

2 TE TAURIMA WHAKAATA MAORI I TE WAIROA Wairoa Maori Film Festival 2006

Theme Year One: Mana Wairoa: Nga Terenga Mahara, Nga Ara Ki Te Whakapono Mana Wairoa: Streams of Consciousness, Pathways to Belief

The Best of A Celebration of Maori & Indigenous Film Movies ✯ Short Films ✯ Documentaries ✯ Wananga

PARTNERS Film Archive Gaiety Theatre & Cinema Takitimu Marae SUPPORTERS & SPONSORS Eastern & Central Community Trust Kahungunu Community Marae Kiwa Film & Television Lottery Grants Board Maori Television Moving Image Centre Ngatarawa Wines New Zealand Film Commission Palace Films Parihaka Peace Festival Pollywood Film Festival Screen Innovation Production Fund Te Iwi O Rakaipaaka Inc. Te Papa Tongarewa Te Puni Kokiri Wairoa District Council Wairoa Enterprise Agency Wairoa Visitors Centre Wairoa Taiwhenua Wairoa Waikaremoana Maori Trust Board Waituna Brewing Co.

Koanga ~ Labour Weekend ~ October 20th to 23rd 2006 Gaiety Cinema & Theatre & Takitimu Marae WAIROA | Hawke’s Bay | East | AOTEAROA New Zealand 3 TE TAURIMA WHAKAATA MAORI I TE WAIROA Wairoa Maori Film Festival 2006

Te Roopu Whakaata Maori I Te Wairoa – Wairoa Maori Film Festival Society Inc. wish to thank the following organisations and individuals for their generous support:

PARTNERS New Zealand Film Archive Gaiety Theatre & Cinema Takitimu Marae

SUPPORTERS & SPONSORS TOHEROA PAUA KINA Eastern & Central Community Trust Kahungunu Community Marae Moving Image Centre New Zealand Film Commission Wairoa Waikaremoana Maori Trust Board Pollywood Film Festival Wairoa District Council Ngatarawa Wines Kiwa Film & Television Te Puni Kokiri Waituna Brewing Co. Maori Television Te Iwi O Rakaipaaka Inc. Palace Films Wairoa Taiwhenua Parihaka Peace Festival Screen Innovation Production Fund Te Papa Tongarewa

PATRONS John Bayly Mika John Bluck Huia Brown Here Nissen Rena Owen Waana Davis Bic Runga Roger Donaldson Mayor Les Probert Barry Everard Don Selwyn Derek Fox Chris Sidney Mayor Bob Harvey Karen Sidney Te Arohanoa Taiapa Dame Georgina Kirby Lee Tamahori Huia Koziol Pauline Tangiora Pere Maitai Isabella Westbury

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Sonia Anderson Huia Koziol Huia Brown Doreen Taiapa Alan Chilcott Pauline Tangiora Festival Director – Leo Koziol

Wairoa Maori Film Festival 2006 Te Roopu Whakaata Maori i te Wairoa ~ Wairoa Maori Film Festival Society Inc. C/- P.O. Box 379 | WAIROA 4192 | Ph. 64.6.837.8854 | email: [email protected] www.manawairoa.com

4 MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIRPERSON

Te-ne- Koe

Haere atu ra e te Rangatira ! Haere atu ra e te Rangatira Tama Poata! Haere Atu Ra Korua…Moe! Moe! Moe Mai Korua!

We are now into another exciting Wairoa Maori Film Festival. This year’s four days of films will cover a wide range of subjects including archival reels.

We are opening with “Ngati” as the main feature on Friday night in honour of the lead actor, Wi Kuki Kaa, and the writer / producer, Tama Poata. Both Wi Kuki Kaa and Tama Poata have passed away since our last festival. They have inspired many over the years, and Source: United Nations. this year’s “River Queen” was Wi Kuki’s last “stand”.

In welcoming everyone to the festival we hope you find pleasure in what is presented. We thank all the supporters who have seen the event as worthwhile, not only for Wairoa but for Aotearoa and the world in general.

In Peace

Pauline Tangiora Rongomaiwahine CHAIRPERSON

The Gathering: Return of the Whale Dreamers Featuring Festival Chairperson Pauline Tangiora. See also: Tau Te Mauri: Breath of Peace.

5 Mana magazine the Maori magazine for everyone “For almost 14 years now Mana magazine has been telling Maori stories, tapping into a rich vein of largely untold tales. It’s the same with film-making. So many of our people’s stories are now being brought to life on the screen. Mana recently honoured one of our great Maori actors, the late Wi Kuki Kaa, with an up-close and personal family memoir and a stunning cover featuring Wi Kuki in his last film role - Old Rangi in River Queen. It’s great that Wi Kuki’s huge contribution to the Maori film industry will be celebrated at this year’s Wairoa Film Festival. I’m pleased to be a patron of the Wairoa Film Festival. As well as showcasing our achievements in film, the Festival is an innovative way of attracting people to this beautiful area. Call me a little prejudiced about my home district, but visitors always comment on the beauty of Wairoa with its river, the Mahia Peninsula and the bordering Urewera National Park. This natural beauty is surpassed only by the warm hospitality of the local people.” Derek Fox – Ngati Kahungunu, Rongomaiwahine, Ngati Porou Editor of Mana Magazine Mana Magazine - our stories, our people, our history

Latest issue on sale now from leading newsagents. For subscriptions contact us at PO Box 1101 or check out our website www.manaonline.co.nz MESSAGE FROM THE FESTIVAL DIRECTOR

Te-ne- Koutou Katoa

From the time the idea of a Maori Film Festival for Wairoa was first mooted, the vision was an event that would be on-going and annual. So the vision continues, with this, the Second Annual Wairoa Maori Film Festival 2006 planned for Labour Weekend this year.

Last year’s event was the inaugural festival, a unique event that has brought us memories that will indeed last a lifetime. This year’s festival promises similar highlights – the unique energy that occurs when our Maori and indigenous dreamkeepers gather to share their visions and documentations, the “Ihi” that makes our Maori events so unique and spontaneous.

The theme of this year’s festival is: “Nga Terenga Mahara – Nga Ara Ki Te Whakapono”, “Streams Of Consciousness – Pathways To Belief”. From “Nga Terenga Mahara” we have the dramatised imagined visions of our Maori and indigenous scriptwriters, with an extensive dramatic feature and short film selection. For “Nga Ara Ki Te Whakapono” it is “seeing is believing” with stories of Maori and indigenous lives, dilemmas and celebrations here in Aotearoa and around the world in an extensive documentary selection.

This year we have an extensive international selection, from indigenous film-makers with a similar whenua-whanau focus as Maori. Watch the squabbling of two Australian Aboriginal Nannies – fighting over a deceased husband they shared – in “The Lore Of Love”. Witness the tragic arrival of Western belief systems to the Native American people in “Conversion”. Watch in wonder the whales off the South Australia coast, as they respond to the call of the “Whale Dreamers”, including Mahia’s own Pauline Tangiora.

Guest of honour at this year’s festival will be Barry Barclay. Veteran and pioneer of the Maori film world, Barry Barclay’s work is presented in a retrospective of his feature works “Ngati”, “Te Rua”, “Feathers of Peace” and “The Kaipara Affair.” On Saturday, I will have the honour of interviewing Barry Barclay in our inaugural “In Conversation With…” event, which is hoped will become an on-going feature of the Wairoa Maori Film Festival.

Our goal since the beginning has been to present a showcase of the best of Maori on film, Maori in film and international indigenous film. It is my hope, that upon reviewing this programme, you are in agreement this is a goal we are working diligently to fulfil.

He Wero Kia Koe, “Whaia Ou Moemoea Aio.”

Leo Koziol Rakaipaaka, Kahungunu FESTIVAL DIRECTOR

7 SPECIAL EVENTS

OFFICIAL FESTIVAL POWHIRI FESTIVAL AWARDS NIGHT & MUSICAL SHOWCASE

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OFFICIAL FESTIVAL POWHIRI ✯ Takitimu Marae 12.00 p.m. Friday October 20th 2006 Join us for the Official Festival Powhiri and Opening, followed by a Hakari Luncheon to be sponsored by Wairoa District Council.

FESTIVAL AWARDS NIGHT & MUSICAL SHOWCASE ✯ Wairoa War Memorial Hall 7.00 p.m. Saturday October 21st 2006 Join us for the Festival Awards Night and Maori Musical Extravaganza!

Awards to be presented this evening are: • Festival Prize (Best Overall Entry) Prize: Festival Trophy & $500 Prize • Best International Indigenous Entry Prize: Festival Trophy • Dramatic Short (Aotearoa) Prize: Festival Trophy • Best Short Documentary (Aotearoa) Prize: Festival Trophy • Best Long Documentary (Aotearoa) Prize: Festival Trophy

Following the Awards presentation, dinner will be served and the entertainment will commence. Planned for the night is a mix of archival film footage of the Maori Musical Experience from its earliest recordings to the present day, mixed up with live Kapa Haka and contemporary musical performances from local National Kapa Haka Matatini finalists, Te Rerenga Kotuku.

It is hoped to close out the night with dancing and a Maori Showband!

FESTIVAL AWARD FINALISTS All of the following entries are eligible for the overall Festival Prize (Best Overall Entry). Best International Indigenous Entry Chi-Mnissing-N-Daa-Yaan Stylin’ Up Conversion Tavake Endangered The Gathering: Return of the Whale Dreamers Finding My Way Time and Tide Scrub Dramatic Short (Aotearoa) Best Short Documentary (Aotearoa) Link Meet The Prick Te Heru –The Comb Guardians of the Mauri The Speaker So Far, Yet So Close Hawaikii Best Long Documentary (Aotearoa) The Last Resort Based on a True Story: Fat Freddy’s Drop in Europe Squeegee Bandit

Feature Drama (Aotearoa) – (NB: No individual prize category, eligible for Festival Prize) The Waimate Conspiracy

The Maori Musical Extravaganza! is presented in association with |

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10 11 Wi Kuki Kaa as Iwi in Ngati (1987) Stills Collection | | Ngä Kaitiaki O Ngä Taonga Whitiähua

12 TE AO MAI NGA WHATU MAORI: THE WORLD THROUGH A MAORI LENS SPECIAL SCREENINGS

13 OPENING NIGHT GALA: NGATI ✯ Gaiety Theatre & Cinema 6.00 p.m. Friday October 20th 2006

NGATI RETROSPECTIVE Feature | D: Barry Barclay | P: John O’Shea | 1987 | New Zealand | 89 min | 35 mm With: Tuta Ngarimu Tamati, Ngawai Harrison, Wi Kuki Kaa, Oliver Jones, Judy Mcintosh, Alice Fraser, Iranui Haig, Tawai Moana, Michael Tibble, Ross Girven, Connie Pewhairangi, Norman Fletcher, Luckie Renata, Kiri Mccorkindale, Paki Cherrington.

In a remote seaside village, a stranger becomes involved in public and Poster for Ngati (1987) personal crises. NGATI is set in 1948 in Kapua, an imaginary small seaside Stills Collection; New Zealand Film Archive / town, the spiritual home of the local Ngati, or tribe. A young Australian Ngä Kaitiaki O Ngä Taonga Whitiähua arrives on holiday to visit a non-Maori family. The local meat processing plant is about to be closed down by the financiers from the capital. It is a moment when the far-thinking Maori people have to decide to take their lives into their own hands. Preceded by: TRINITY ROOTS: THE LITTLE THINGS Music Video | 3 mins | 2003 | DVD The world of a life through the eyes of Wi Kuki Kaa, to the sound of Trinity Roots. A TRIBUTE TO WI KUKI KAA AND TAMA POATA Compilation | 15 mins | DVD A tribute to the lifetime achievements in film and television of Wi Kuki Kaa and Tama Poata. TURANGAWAEWAE Short Film | D: Peter Burger | P: Catherine Fitzgerald | 2003 | New Zealand | 13 min | 35 mm Tiare, a Vietnam War veteran, lives homeless, wandering the city. He marks out his physical and spiritual world, building a place to stand, away from that of his ancestors and his descendants.

Presented in association with | Ngati (1987) Stills Collection; New Zealand Film Archive / Ngä Kaitiaki O Ngä Taonga Whitiähua

14 IN CONVERSATION WITH BARRY BARCLAY ✯ Gaiety Theatre & Cinema 4.00 p.m. Saturday October 21st 2006

IN CONVERSATION WITH BARRY BARCLAY SPECIAL EVENT Festival Director Leo Koziol in conversation for one hour with pioneering Maori film-maker Barry Barclay. The first in what the Wairoa Maori Film Festival hopes to make an annual highlight of the festival. “Born in 1944, Barclay is of Caucasian and Maori descent, his tribe being Ngati Apa. He grew up on farms in the Wairarapa, leaving at fifteen to begin studies for the Roman Catholic priesthood in Australia. He left after six years, returning to the Wairarapa where he worked for one year in radio before joining a Masterton-based rural film company as cameraman. Four years later he joined John O’Shea’s Pacific Films as a director of trade films, television commercials and documentaries. His documentaries of that period include: All That We Need, an energy conservation cinema documentary which opened the 1973 Tehran Film Festival; and Indira Ghandi, a 60 minute documentary profile of the Prime Minister shot in India in 1976 at the height of the Emergency. Of significance was the landmark Tangata Whenua series of documentaries [1974] on which he worked closely with the late , about Maori life and culture. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Barry was abroad and worked on projects in Sri Lanka, London, Paris and Amsterdam. He returned to New Zealand to write and direct The Neglected Miracle, a feature-length political documentary on the ownership of plant genetic resources, shot over two years in eight countries. In 1987, Barry became the first Maori to direct a dramatic feature - Ngati - which won Best Film at the Taormina Film Festival, Italy. In 1991 Barry wrote and directed the feature Te Rua, a fictional story about a group of Maori who set off for Berlin to claim back tribal carvings held in a museum there. His most recent film is The Feathers of Peace, a feature drama-documentary based on the Moriori people of Rekohu (the Chatham Islands). Most recently Barry has turned his hand to writing. His book Mana Tuturu: Maori Treasures and Intellectual Property Rights, published by: Auckland University Press was launched at the end of 2005.” Barry Barclay was the 2004 Arts Laureate Recipient of the Arts Foundation of New Zealand. (Barry Barclay Biography from Arts Laureate website, Arts Foundation of New Zealand)

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15 MANA WAIROA: FROM THE ARCHIVES ✯ Takitimu Marae 2.00 p.m. Sunday October 22nd 2006

MANA WAIROA ARCHIVAL SELECTION 2006 This selection of historic short films from around Aotearoa and the Wairoa District is an annual festival event that is sure to be a popular highlight, revealing the past lives of our diverse communities. The silent film component of this programme will include live Piano accompaniment by Tama Karena.

HIGHWAY: ROADING THE UREWERA, NEW ZEALAND, 1930 Scenes of the road construction in the Urewera; men working with pick and shovel and excavating the bluffs with dynamite. Supplies are taken by horseback to the workers at the PWD Camp at Hopurähine. Produced by the Government Publicity Office.

ESK VALLEY FLOODS 1938 AND ASSORTED SCENES Dramatic footage by an unknown film maker of the floods and its aftermath. The whole area from Napier to Wairoa and Gisborne in Poverty Bay was deluged by torrential downpours which at their worst measured as much as 13 inches in 24 hours. Railway lines, road and telegraph communications, and bridges were swept away, in some cases right out to sea, and emergency measures on a national scale were necessary.

JAMES OSLER HOME MOVIE COLLECTION 1930 – 1946 Jim Osler was the baker in Wairoa for many years. He and his family also operated Osler’s Tea & Luncheon Rooms. Jim was a still photographer and movie maker recording events in Wairoa, Mahia and Waikaremoana on his 16mm camera. A selection of these films will be shown. Subjects include the men leaving for war in 1940, ANZAC parades and processions, weddings and tangi. Along with fishing expeditions, axemen competitions, rodeo and horse racing.

WAR MEMORIAL MEETING HOUSE OPENED 1949 At Nuhaka in Hawkes Bay, a meeting house is opened as a memorial to those who died at war (D Company, 28th Maori Batallion). Local dignitaries meet the Prime Minister, Peter Fraser. Weekly Review 420, NFU production.

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16 FESTIVAL CENTREPIECE: TRAIL OF TE KOOTI ✯ Gaiety Theatre & Cinema 4.30 p.m. Sunday October 22nd 2006

THE TE KOOTI TRAIL RETROSPECTIVE Silent Feature | D: Rudall Hayward | Whakatane Films | 1927 | New Zealand | 103 mins | DVD | Silent Film with Live Piano Accompaniment The Te Kooti Trail is set in the Bay of Plenty in 1864 and is a dramatisation of events that occurred at Mill Farm, a small settlement at Te Poronu. The film is based on a newspaper serial written by Frank Bodle Original poster for The Te Kooti Trail (1927) which is heavily indebted to the account given by Hayward Collection | historian James Cowan in volume two of The New | Ngä Kaitiaki O Ngä Taonga Whitiähua Zealand Wars. The narrative begins with a prologue set in England in which a young British officer, Eric, is accused of a crime he has not committed, he is told to go “to the colonies or to the devil.” After an emotional parting with his sweetheart, Alice, he heads for New Zealand and becomes a member of the Corps of Guides led by Lieutenant (later Captain) Gilbert Mair. The film concerns the peace loving Ngati Pukeko who have been given a mill by Sir George Grey as a reward for their industry and friendliness to the British. The mill is attacked by a taua (war party) of one hundred men, sent by “the great military genius” Te Kooti. Adventures and conflict ensues.

Preceded by: Te Pairi Tuterangi as Te Kooti in The Te Kooti Trail (1927) HAWAIKII Hayward Collection | Mike Jonathon | Libby Hakaraia | 2006 | Ngä Kaitiaki O Ngä Taonga Whitiähua | New Zealand | 11 min The first day at school, a young Maori girl takes her first steps into the Pakeha world. Presented in association with |

17 CLOSING NIGHT: MARK II ✯ Gaiety Theatre & Cinema 7.00 p.m. Monday October 23rd 2006

MARK II RETROSPECTIVE Feature | D: John Anderson | P: Dan McKirdy | 1985 | New Zealand | 72 min | Video Closing night is the classic story about three fullas and an old Mark II Ford, and their adventures in 1980s Aotearoa. A community favourite to close out the second annual Wairoa Maori Film Festival. Three unemployed teenagers head south in an old Mark II Ford. The first telefeature produced by Television New Zealand. Mark II is important in its dramatisation of the lives of young in New Zealand. Eddie Aranui buys his uncle’s restored red and white Mark II Zephyr and heads out of Auckland with Matthew, his cousin and Kingi, their friend, to live out their fantasy of freedom on the road. Preceded by: THE SPEAKER Short Film | Te Arepa Kahi | 2005 | New Zealand | 14 min | 35 mm Director: Tearepa Kahi Screenplay: Tearepa Kahi, Savage Producers: Quinton Hita, Tearepa Kahi, Savage. Fat Cap Films. Festivals: Berlin 2006. The Speaker, follows a young tagger whose midnight marauding gets his younger brother in trouble with the cops.

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18 Nga Aho Whakaari, the leading industry association representing Maori working in Film, Video and Television in New Zealand, wishes the Wairoa Maori Film Festival every sucess with this celebration of the wonderful creativity, talents, and stories of our people.

He manako te koura, e kore ai! “Moumoukai te maunga, tu mai ra! Te whakaruruhau, te whare korero E kore, kore e riro. Waitirohia, te awa o Nuhaka, e rere ra! Te matapuna o te ora E kore e maroke. Rakaipaaka te iwi, e noho ra! Kahungunu Community Marae, ‘Nga whare rau o Te Tahinga-o-te-ra’ Nuhaka E kore e ngaro. Tihei mauriora!” is proud to be a sponsor of the Te Iwi O Rakaipaaka Inc. is proud to be Second Annual Wairoa Maori Film Festival 2006 A sponsor of the Second Annual Wairoa Maori Film Festival 2006

Te Iwi o Rakaipaaka Inc. Kahungunu Community Marae Ngati Rangi Street, R D 8, NUHAKA 4192 Cnr Ihaka & Mataira St, Nuhaka. AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND Chairman phone: 06 837 8794 Ph: (64) 06 837 8608 – Fax: (64) 06 837 8603 Email Secretary (bookings) phone: 06 837 8712 [email protected] www.rakaipaaka.co.nz

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20 NGA TERENGA MAHARA STREAMS OF CONSCIOUSNESS DRAMATIC FEATURE & SHORT FILM SELECTION

21 FEATHERS OF PEACE ✯ Gaiety Theatre & Cinema 10.00 a.m. Monday October 23rd 2006

FEATHERS OF PEACE RETROSPECTIVE Feature Documentary | D: Barry Barclay | P: Ruth Kaupua-Panapa | EP: Don Selwyn | 2000 | New Zealand | 82 mins | DVD A documentary about the near-genocide of the Moriori people of the Chatham Islands brought on by a series of massacres by invading Maori in the 1830s and various oppressive acts subsequent to that invasion, including the rulings of the Native Land Court in the early 1870s. Feathers of Peace traces the final impact that both races had on the indigenous Moriori of the Chatham Islands. Moriori were a peaceful people who, at the behest of their chief Nunuku, vowed never to take up arms against another human being. Moriori men wore white feathers in their beards to denote their peaceful intent. Preceded by: CONVERSION Short Film | D: Nanobah Becker | P: Courtney Schmidt | 2006 | USA | 9 mins | DVD | Albuquerque, New Mexico | In Navajo, with English Subtitles A visit by Christian missionaries has tragic consequences for a family on a remote corner of the Navajo Reservation. Conversion is an entry to the Wairoa Maori Film Festival. Presented in association with |

The Feathers of Peace (2000) Hayward Collection | | Ngä Kaitiaki O Ngä Taonga Whitiähua

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LATE CONFIRMATIONS

The following are late confirmations for the Wairoa Maori Film Festival 2005. Check out our website for screening times and location: www.manawairoa.com

I KNOW I’M NOT ALONE Feature Documentary | USA | 2005 | D: Michael Franti | P: Michael Franti | Music: Michael Franti | 95 mins | DVD | San Francisco World Festival | Slamdance International Film Festival | Maui International Film Festival | Rotterdam International Film Festival A musicians journey through war in the Middle East. Michael Franti, world-renowned musician and human rights worker, travels to Iraq, Palestine and Israel to explore the human cost of war with a group of friends, some video cameras and his guitar. A compelling soundtrack, visual and musical montages and Franti’s intimate voiceovers make the film speak to the MTV, X, Y & Z generations, as well as the baby-boomers. A true armchair travel film pulling the audience into these war zones in the company of Michael’s guitar, eloquence and wit - you feel the humanity, artistic resilience and sometimes horrific experience of what it’s like to live under the bombs and military occupation. With its guerrilla style footage captured in active war zones, the documentary is unlike the many academic and politically driven pieces in the marketplace, instead offering the audience a sense of intimate travel and the opportunity to hear the voices of everyday people living, creating and surviving under the harsh conditions of war and occupation. “Watch this film then insist that Michael Franti becomes President of the United States!” -Anthony Minghella (Academy Award Winning Director, English Patient, Cold Mountain) “I Know I’m Not Alone” is an antidote to despair. With soulful music and boyish charm, Michael Franti sings his way through two brutal occupations--Iraq and Palestine, breaking through the hate and revealing the oneness of our human family. -Medea Benjamin (Founder-Global Exchange) Presented in association with the Parihaka Peace Festival

24 MADE IN TAIWAN Documentary | New Zealand | 2006 | D: Dan Salmon | 44 mins | DVD New Zealand’s favourite sons, Oscar Keightley and Nathan Rarere team up to give us one of the most entertaining and humorous science trips that won’t be found in a classroom. In a film that celebrates cultural convergence through the wonders of molecular biology, Keightley and Rarere brave the DNA challenge and send saliva samples to a lab in the UK to find out where their ancestors originated from. What seems like a straightforward test ends up becoming a journey of self-discovery for these two, with a few curve balls thrown in. The DNA results set them off on a Pacific voyage as they try and retrace their ancestors’ migratory footsteps but why do the boys end up in Taiwan? (TV3)

DEAD LETTERS Short Film | New Zealand | 2006 | D: Paolo Rotondo | P: Gemma Gracewood and Fraser Brown | 14 mins | 35 mm On the ‘home front’ in 1943, Ngarie and Gerald sort air graph letterforms destined for New Zealand soldiers abroad. A tiny act of heroism brings together this unlikely pair in an unconventional love story that cleverly blends fact with fiction. With Yvette Reid as Ngaire and Gareth Reeves as Gerald. Paolo Rotondo is well known as an actor with lead roles in Stickmen, The Ugly and Shortland Street. He has written and directed theatre and his short films include The Freezer.

TAME ITI: MAN BEHIND THE MOKO Short Documentary | New Zealand | 2005 | D: Chelsea Winstanley | P: Chelsea Winstanley & Desray Armstrong | EP: Rhonda Kite | 22 mins | DVD Tame Iti has an established media profile portraying a radical Maori activist. Apart from this dominant media persona, there are other sides to Iti that range from artist and musician to social worker, family man to entrepreneur. But is the man misunderstood? He looks scary but is he really? Is he an extremist or the equivalent of a redneck? For the first time, Tame Iti is seen and heard in a different environment, one other than the 7 second sound bite most New Zealanders are used to. He speaks openly about his life so far and offers the viewer the opportunity to understand where his motives for his actions come from. We also hear from Tame Iti’s peers who knew him as a young activist and we find out that he has many other interests’ besides the political wagon. (TVNZ) Presented in association with Kiwa Film & Television.

25 Ahakoa kei whea, Ahakoa áwhea, Ahakoa péwhea, Kórero Máori!

Máori language – everywhere, every day, in every way! ting dcas roa i B or á M g n ti or pp y su Proudl

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Telephone 04-915 0700 Facsimile 04-915 0701 Email [email protected] Web-site www.tmp.govt.nz THE FLIGHT OF THE ALBATROSS ✯ Takitimu Marae 2.00 p.m. Monday October 23rd 2006

THE FLIGHT OF THE ALBATROSS IN TE REO MAORI Feature | D: Werner Meyer | 1995 | New Zealand | 88 mins | DVD | In Te Reo Maori | Language Reversioning by Kiwa Films Cast includes: Taungaroa Emile, Julia Brendler, Suzanne Von Borsody, Pete Smith, Diana Ngaromotu – Heka, Peter Tait, Jack Thompson, Joan Reid, Eva Rickard, Grant Tilly A German teenager comes to New Zealand and falls in love. A young Maori boy, on the verge of a criminal future, returns to his idyllic island home and falls in love with a promising young musician from Berlin. As they begin to experience the fears and joys of first love they are plunged into a life-and- death adventure together. Preceded by: WHAKATAKA TE HAU Music Video | D: Candida Keithley | 2005 | New Zealand | 4 mins | DVD The Karakia “Whakataka Te Hau” was set to music by students at Te Atarangi and filmed as a short story / music video for Maori Television. GUARDIANS OF THE MAURI Waitakere City Eco Docu-Drama, Digital Animation | 2005 | 20 minutes | DVD An animated underwater adventure in a Waitakere stream. Presented in Te Reo Maori. Presented in association with |

27 INDIGENOUS SHORT FILM SHOWCASE ✯ Gaiety Theatre & Cinema 10.00 a.m. Saturday October 21st 2006 (76 mins total playing time)

HAWAIKII Short Film | D: Mike Jonathon | 2006 | New Zealand | 11 min The first day at school, a young Maori girl takes her first steps into the Pakeha world.

THE SPEAKER Short Film | D: Te Arepa Kahi | P: Quinton Hita, Tearapa Kahi, Savage | 2005 | New Zealand | 14 min | 35 mm | Festivals: Berlin 2006. The Speaker follows a young tagger whose midnight marauding gets his younger brother in trouble with the cops.

CONVERSION Short Film | D: Nanobah Becker | P: Courtney Schmidt | 2006 | USA | 9 mins | DVD | Albuquerque, New Mexico | In Navajo, with English Subtitles A visit by Christian missionaries has tragic consequences for a family on a remote corner of the Navajo Reservation. Conversion is an entry to the Wairoa Maori Film Festival.

TE HERU – THE COMB Short Film | D: Gunther Tuhi | 2005 | New Zealand | 8 mins | DVD A young couple falls in love but there is conflict with their brother’s acceptance. Te Heru is an entry to the Wairoa Maori Film Festival.

LINK Short Film | D: Paul Roukchan | P: Edward Sampson | 2006 | New Zealand | 10 mins | DVD In this New Zealand short film Ben Mitchell (Shortland Street) plays a soldier sent to volatile East Timor reluctantly leaving his alcoholic mother Shirleen Shah (Jinnah), and troubled brother to cope with his absence while he faces his own uncertain future. Link is an entry to the Wairoa Maori Film Festival.

SCRUB Short Film | D: Douglas Watkin | Australia | 10 Mins | DVD A biker has conformed into mainstream society. Scrub is an entry to the Wairoa Maori Film Festival.

TAVAKE Short Film | D: Paul Stoll | P: Sarah Del Seronde | 2005 | Tonga | 14 mins | DVD | Sedona International Film Festival Set in the kingdom of Tonga, this film looks at the influence of western culture through the relation of a father and son. Tavake is an entry to the Wairoa Maori Film Festival. It is hoped to have a panel discussion with the film-makers at the conclusion of the screening.

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28 MAORI MERCHANT OF VENICE ✯ Gaiety Theatre & Cinema 1.00 p.m. Sunday October 22nd 2006

MAORI MERCHANT OF VENICE IN TE REO MAORI Feature Te Reo Maori | D: Don Selwyn | 2002 | New Zealand | 158 mins | 35 mm | He Taonga Films The Maori take on Shakespeare’s pound of flesh’ drama is a story of deep seated social and religious prejudice, in which the Jew (Shylock) as a long memory of oppression, but revenge is not so sweet. The Maori Merchant of Venice tells Shakespeare’s story of conflict between Antonio, a Christian merchant, and Shylock, a Jewish moneylender and the resolution provided by a strong woman, Portia. Cast includes: Waihoroi Shortland, Ngarimu Daniels, Scott Morrison, Te Rangihau Gilbert. Composer: Clive Cockburn, Hirini Melbourne. Presented in association with | He Taonga Films

NO. 2 ✯ Gaiety Theatre & Cinema 2.20 p.m. Monday October 23rd 2006

NO. 2 FEATURE DRAMA Feature | D: Toa Fraser | 2006 | New Zealand | 96 mins | 35 mm | Berlin Film Festival 2006 Cast: Ruby Dee, Tuva Novotny, Rene Naufahu, Mia Blake, Taungaroa Emile, Xavier Horan, Miriam McDowell A family reunion suffused with the charm of Oceania is the focus of this directorial debut which New Zealand dramatist Toa Fraser has adapted from his own one-person play, “No. 2”, in order to create a vibrant and multi-voiced ensemble piece. At the centre of the film is Nanna Maria, an ageing Fijian matriarch, who lives on a suburban estate in Auckland. (Berlin Film Festival) Preceded by: BLUE WILLOW Short Film | D: Veialu Aila-Unsworth | 2006 | New Zealand | 14 mins | 35 mm | Animation Blue Willow is an animated fable.Taking you into the heart of the traditional Chinese porcelain plate, this short brings the blue lines to life and weaves a haunting story of love and family betrayal. Programme presented in association with the |

29 POLLYWOOD 2006 ✯ Takitimu Marae 12.00 p.m. Sunday October 22nd 2006

POLLYWOOD 2006 SPECIAL PRESENTATION (63 MINS) Pollywood is a Pacifica short film programme curated by Craig Fasi of The Moving Image Centre that promotes short films Starring, Written and Directed by New Zealand-based Pacific Islanders.

WHEN THE FALLS Popp Lilo | 20mins A son struggles with the aspect of living with one abusive parent, after the loss of his beloved mother. During this struggle he finds himself faced with the challenge of succeeding in a new-found career path.

ALL THE TIME 2005 | Writer & Director Jerry Tauamiti | New Zealand Broadcasting School | 14 mins Completed as an end of year project at the New Zealand Broadcasting School, Jerry Tauamiti’s film ‘All the Time’, tells of a father’s struggle with his Christian faith as his son falls terribly ill.

IN YOUR ABSENCE 2006 | Director | Angela Gribben | 5 mins Two women. One falling out of love, the other falling in love. ‘In Your Absence’ is an exploration of the beginning and ending of love. It is a visual display of two sides of the same story. ‘In Your Absence’ is the most private of glimpse into the lives of the two women. There’s no narrative, no dialogue. It is a film that encourages the viewer to subconsciously fill in the details (names, places, reasons, excuses ) by using their own personal experiences with love to piece together a story that best fits each woman. This is a film that will appeal to anyone who has loved.

NIUE – THIS IS YOUR LAND Writer & Director Mella Lahina | 14 mins Mella, a third generation NZ born Niuean Female surfer, visits her Island of heritage for the first time only to discover there is no surf on Niue. But Mella’s visit opens her eyes to the Islands other beautiful qualities, the magical water, warm people, and clean unpolluted land. However she also discovers the low population has left the countries future hanging by a thread. This documentary is a record of Mella’s journey to regaining her identity and first steps at becoming part of the solution in Niue’s restoration of itself.

TALULA TALULA 10 mins Whilst digging up the back yard of an old state house in the suburb of Aranui, an old reel of film was found in the house’s sewage pipes. It is believed that the precious footage dates back to the turn of the 20th century. The enormous discovery and mystery surrounding the creation of this film leads only to one conclusion – that Pacific Islanders were indeed the first film makers.

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30 THE RIVER QUEEN ✯ Gaiety Theatre & Cinema 7.00 p.m. Sunday October 22nd 2006

THE RIVER QUEEN FEATURE DRAMA Feature | D: Vincent Ward | 2005 | New Zealand, UK | 114 mins | 35 mm | World Premiere, Toronto International Film Festival 2005 Principal Cast: Samantha Morton, Kiefer Sutherland, Cliff Curtis, , Anton Lesser, David Rawiri Pene, Stephen Rea The haunting interior landscape of New Zealand - its verdant green canopy tumbling into roiling, shadowy rapids - is the otherworldly universe that frames this film. Nature’s terrible powers have long guided the visually astonishing work of Vincent Ward; The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey remains one of the most pictorially lush films ever made. But in River Queen, we contend wtih an additional force of nature: a mother’s indomitable strength of will when forced to protect her son. (Toronto International Film Festival) Preceded by: BREAK Short Film Experimental Dance | D: Shona McCullagh | W: Shona McCullagh | P: Ashley Stuart Coupland | 2006 | New Zealand | 14 mins | 35 mm | Human Garden Productions A long-term relationship is ending. Set in rural New Zealand a depressed mother makes the difficult decision to leave her son and partner. The film explores the relationship a nine year-old boy has with his mother and the ultimate loss of his trust. Programme presented in association with the |

Oscar Nominee Two Cars, One Night

31 TEN CANOES ✯ Gaiety Theatre & Cinema 12.00 p.m. Saturday October 21st 2006

TEN CANOES FEATURE DRAMA Feature | D: Rolf de Heer | 2006 | Australia | 92 mins | 35 mm | Screenplay: Rolf de Heer. In consultation with the people of Ramingining | In English, Ganalbingu and other Australian Aboriginal languages, with English subtitles | Rated M medium level violence With: Crusoe Kurddal, Jamie Dayindi Gulpilil Dalaithngu, Richard Birrinbirrin, Peter Minygululu, Frances Djulibing, Sonia Djarrabalminym, Cassandra Malangarri Baker, Philip Gudthaykudthay, David Gulpilil Ridjimiraril Dalaithngu | Festivals: Cannes (Un Certain Regard), Sydney 2006; Special Jury Prize, Cannes Film Festival 2006 “Let us now praise the men and women who spent weeks in the bush of Arnhem Land in the Australian Northern Territory and waded waist deep through tropical swamp alive with mosquitoes, leeches and crocodiles to give us the awesomely beautiful Ten Canoes. Unquestionably the best, most perfectly realised of the many films Dutch expat Rolf de Heer has made in Australia, Ten Canoes was developed in collaboration with traditional communities living in Raminining. It tells their stories and is spoken in their dialects, although David Gulpilil provides an amusingly nonchalant English narration. As a group of Aboriginal tribesmen sets out on an annual goose-egg-gathering expedition, an elder pointedly regales his restless young companion with an ancient tale about a young man desiring the youthful wife of a senior tribesman...” (Synopsis- New Zealand Film Festival) Presented in association with the | | Australia TE RUA ✯ Gaiety Theatre & Cinema 2.00 p.m. Saturday October 21st 2006

TE RUA FEATURE DRAMA Feature | D: Barry Barclay | P: John O’Shea | EP: 1991 | New Zealand | 105 mins | 35 mm | Made in association with New Zealand Film Commission, Berlin Senate and Film Commission, Avalon / NfU Studios Cast includes: Wi Kuki Kaa, Nissie Herewini, Tilly Reedy, Peter Kaa, Matiu Mareikura, Gunter Meisner, Maria Fitzi, Donna Akersten, , Dalvanius. Music by Dalvanius. “Te Rua tells a tale that explicitly has to do with cultural sovereignty. A group of rural Maori set off for Berlin to recover three carvings which last century were stolen from their ancestral house by a German and one of their own relations. The carvings are now stored - or so the story has it - in the basement of a Berlin Museum. “This picture marks quite a stylistic breakthrough for New Zealand film in that Barry Barclay has managed to appropriate the technical apparatus of cinema into the Maori oral storytelling tradition” - (Costa Botes, “Barclay’s Te Rua tougher on outside”, The Dominion, November 25, 1991) Presented in association with | Wi Kuki Kaa as Rewi in Te Rua (1991) Stills Collection | | Ngä Kaitiaki O Ngä Taonga Whitiähua

32 THE WAIMATE CONSPIRACY ✯ Gaiety Cinema 12.00 p.m. Monday October 23rd 2006

THE WAIMATE CONSPIRACY FEATURE DRAMA Feature | D: Stefen Lewis | 2006 | New Zealand | 111 mins | DVD | Dark Horse Productions With: Jim Moriarty, Helen Pearse-Otene, Powley Pearse-Otene, David McPhail, Mark Hadlow, Janice Gray “This good humoured, deeply fanciful mock documentary about a land claim has a distinctively Cantabrian flavour. The 2005 discovery of a cannonball buried for 138 years in a paddock throws Waimate into turmoil. It’s all some locals need to confirm their long-held belief that local Maori were forcibly removed from their tribal lands in a bloody battle in the winter of 1866. The town is divided as a hotly contested claim eventually ends up in the District Court. Cameraman Dave is embedded with George Kepa (Jim Moriarty) and his whanau – for whom the concept of ‘behind closed doors’ does not seem to exist: we’re privy to their every desperate strategy. This ‘vérité’ footage is intercut with candid interviews with townspeople, including the farmer at the centre of the dispute and with the crucial courtroom drama. Mark Hadlow and David McPhail provide expert caricatures of the white man’s law – and a good many other cast members appear to be having just as much fun playing themselves. Helen Pearse-Otene lends gravity as George’s niece whose legal training is sorely challenged in the fray.” – New Zealand Film Festival 2006 “This is an inspiring work. It’s as if the camera left the film-set for a bit and came out right amongst us. That’s exactly what we were seeking to achieve with Ngati” – Barry Barclay. The Waimate Conspiracy is an entry to the Wairoa Maori Film Festival.

WHALE RIDER ✯ Gaiety Theatre & Cinema 4.30 p.m. Monday October 23rd 2006

WHALE RIDER FEATURE DRAMA Feature | D: | 2003 | New Zealand | 90 mins | 35 mm Cast includes: Keisha Castle-Hughes, Vicky Haughton, Rawiri Paratene, Cliff Curtis. A contemporary story of love and rejection as a young girl fights to fulfil her destiny. Niki Caro’s second feature Whale Rider has become the top grossing NZ feature ever released in the USA (except for The Lord of The Rings) and its young star (Keisha Castle-Hughes) was nominated for an Academy Award. It is set in a small New Zealand coastal village where Maori claim descent from Paikea, the Whale Rider. Preceded by: SO FAR, YET SO CLOSE Short Documentary | D: Sophie Zhang | 2005 | New Zealand | 26 mins | DVD This success story tells how a boy from Huntly used music to teach Maori culture to pupils at a school for blind children in Tianjin, China and gave them hope for their future. A story of dreams that shows how a love of music transcends race, culture and disability. So Far, Yet So Close is an entry to the Wairoa Maori Film Festival.

33 Meet The Prick - Tama Iti

NGA ARA KI TE WHAKAPONO PATHWAYS TO BELIEF DOCUMENTARY & REALITY SELECTION

34 BASED ON A TRUE STORY: FAT FREDDY’S DROP IN EUROPE BASED ON A TRUE STORY: FAT FREDDY’S DROP IN EUROPE Documentary | 2006 | D: Libby Hakaraia | 57 mins | DVD

This documentary follow’s Aotearoa music phenomenon Fat Freddy’s Drop as they make their way around Europe on a musical tour adventure. Pacific purveyors of hi-tek soul Fat Freddy’s Drop are a seven-piece family of musicians who’ve grown up together in Wellington. Emerging through a multitude of incarnations from funk jam bands to reggae sound systems, jazz covers to live Detroit style techno, their debut album called Based on a True Story was released in the UK on 27th June to rave reviews. Paul Clark of the BBC says the album is a “belnd of digital dub rhythms, soulful ballads, sun-flecked brass and plaintive vocals and the perfect way to dip your toes into the warm musical waves currently rippling in the South Pacific.” Preceded by: STYLIN’ UP Short Documentary | 2005 | 13 mins | Australia | DVD An annual community hip hop event in Brisbane is focused on indigenous talent. Stylin’ Up is an entry to the Wairoa Maori Film Festival.

35 CAAMA ABORIGINAL DOCUMENTARY SHOWCASE ✯ Takitimu Marae 12.00 p.m. Monday October 23rd 2006 (98 mins. Total playing time) A selection of Australian Aboriginal documentaries, presented in association with the Central Australia Aboriginal Media Association:

YELLOW FELLA Short Documentary | D: Ivan Sen | 2005 | Australia | 25 mins | DVD ”I’m not black, I’m not white, I’m a yellow fella and I’m gonna stay that way”. In 1978, Tom Lewis appeared in the Australian feature film, The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith. The life of the character he played was hauntingly close to his own, a young, restless man of mixed heritage, struggling for a foothold on the edge of two cultures. Tom’s mother is a traditional Indigenous woman of southern Arnhem Land, his father a Welsh stockman who he never really knew. Yellow Fella is a journey across the land and into Tom’s past, as he attempts to find the resting place of his father and to finally confront the truth of his most inner feelings of love and identity. (CAAMA)

CROOKHAT AND CAMPHOO Short Documentary | D: David Tranter | 2005 | Australia | 23 mins | DVD | Alywarr with English Subtitles Two old men, Alyawarra elders who are Master spearmakers, share their cultural knowledge on a journey through the red sand and Spinifex of their country, unravelling the secrets of an ancient craft and its relationship to their heritage. Using traditional tools and methods, Crook Hat (Donald “Crook Hat” Thompson Kamarre) and Camphoo (Reggie “Camphoo” Pwerl) talk about spearmaking, bush knowledge and the ‘old ways’, hoping to maintain a culture disenfranchised by a modern world. With patience, dignity and an ever-present sense of humour, these two men open the door to a dry and harsh land where magic happens. (CAAMA)

THE LORE OF LOVE Short Documentary | D: Beck Cole | 2005 | Australia | 25 mins | DVD Jessi Bartlett is an Aboriginal girl on the brink of womanhood. Her Pintubi grandmothers take her on an incredible journey back to their homelands where they teach her about the lore of love: traditional way.

ENDANGERED Short Documentary | D: Tracey Rigney | 2005 | Australia | 25 mins | DVD Endangered takes a look at the scarcity of the eligible Aboriginal male and the effects this has on Aboriginal women looking for love, and the survival of Aboriginal people and culture. Presented by Endangered Pictures Pty Ltd.

36 ELENA: PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES ✯ Takitimu Marae 1.00 p.m. Friday October 20th 2006 (75 mins. Total playing time)

ELENA Documentary | 2004 | New Zealand | 50 mins | DVD Follow Elena as she visits her Rongomaiwahine whanau in Mahia, and then goes on to present Elena’s Musical Symphony at the Michael Fowler Centre in Wellington. Preceded by: MA TATOU: WAIROA MAORI FILM FESTIVAL Short Documentary | Maori Television | 2005 | New Zealand | 25 mins | VHS | In Te Reo Maori Maori Television profiles the inaugural Wairoa Maori Film Festival 2005.

FINDING MY WAY ✯ Takitimu Marae 10.00 a.m. Saturday October 21st 2006 FINDING MY WAY Long Documentary | D: Charles Kassatly | 2005 | Canada | 52 mins | DVD A feature length documentary that looks at the root issues of homelessness and its causes. It follows three successful, formerly homeless subjects who survived years of addiction and the cold streets of Toronto and how they are supported in this path by the Anishwambe Mission. The documentary deals with destitution, faith and hope. Finding My Way is an entry to the Wairoa Maori Film Festival. Preceded by: CHI-MNISSING-N-DAA-YAAN Short Documentary | D: Ellen Monague | 2005 | Canada | 22 minutes | DVD A boat ride to an Island First Nation reveals the importance of roots, history and home. Chi-Mnissing-N-Daa-Yaan is an entry to the Wairoa Maori Film Festival.

37 THE GATHERING: RETURN OF THE WHALE DREAMERS ✯ Gaiety Theatre & Cinema 2.00 p.m. Friday October 20th 2006

THE GATHERING - RETURN OF THE WHALE DREAMERS NZ PREMIERE Feature Documentary | P: Kim Kindersley, Elaine Seiler, Julian Lennon, Steve Tribbeck | EP: Wayne Young, David Jowsey | 2006 | Australia | 90 min | DVD The Gathering documents an event in 1998 when indigenous elders from around the world gathered on the South Australia coast, invited there by Bunna Lawrie of the Mirnings, an Aboriginal people who believe the region is a portal into the Dream Time. Among the guests: Julian Lennon, a Bashi wisdom poet from Congo, Hawaiian Pua Mahoe, Maori Pauline Tangiora, Yolngu elder Jonny Barramula, and Siraku Tegri, of the Colombian Uw’a tribe. Named “Best Film” at the Byron Bay Film Festival, The Gathering tells the epic story of a people disconnected from their sacred ancestral lands, from their culture, and from the whales with whom they have an uncanny spiritual bond. (Maui Film Festival) Website: www. whaledreamers.com Preceded by: MY PLACE Short Documentary | 22 mins | DVD

Presented in association with the | Te Papa Tongarewa National Museum of New Zealand

38 THE KAIPARA AFFAIR ✯ Gaiety Theatre & Cinema 10.00 a.m. Sunday October 22nd 2006

THE KAIPARA AFFAIR SPECIAL PRESENTATION Documentary | D: Barry Barclay | 2005 | New Zealand | 136 mins | DVD| M Offensive Language “It would come as no surprise to anyone who’s met Barry Barclay that he was astonished when, last December, he was named one of the Arts Foundation Laureates. ‘I was gobsmacked, of course,’ he said at the time. ‘I walked about in a daze for a couple of days and then I felt like heading for the toetoe.’ Such modesty, though typical, is misplaced. In a filmmaking career now in its fourth decade, Barclay (Pakeha and Ngati Apa) has stretched the boundaries of the medium, creating a diverse body of work that is original, thought-provoking and strikingly – though never self consciously – indigenous. In collaboration with a novice historian by the name of Michael King, Barclay made the Tangata Whenua series in 1974, television’s first serious examination of the Maori world; his debut feature Ngati, the first by a Maori director, is still the one I tell people overseas that they should watch first if they haven’t seen a New Zealand film, and it was a fitting tribute that it was the main event on Maori Television’s first night; and The Feathers of Peace in 2000, again standing on the shoulders of King’s work laid to rest the persistent myths about the origins and the fate of the Moriori. Among the many qualities that make him the prince of our documentary filmmakers is his willingness to invest time in his projects. And The Kaipara Affair, his provocative yet often lyrical examination of the threat posed to the Kaipara Harbour by rapacious commercial fishing and development, is the work of a man who took his time. He lived for almost three years in the small settlement of Tinopai on the harbour’s north side, getting to know the story he wanted to tell and winning the confidence of the people he needed to talk to. And he eases the viewer in slowly, too: we’re 26 minutes into the film before the issue that everyone’s been skirting around is precisely spelt out. The payoff is remarkable. The Kaipara Affair is a document of urgent importance to a nation still too easily inflamed by the rhetoric of politicians who rail against race-based privilege. It’s a sobering reminder of the damage still be caused to the natural environment by heedless development which seeks to use the hinterland simply as a playground for city-dwellers. It’s a chilling indictment of the ponderousness of a centralised bureaucracy whose protocols demand endless consultation and expert reports when locals are calling for action and leadership. And it’s a timely and lucid reminder of the principles of tino rangitiratanga and the obligations contained in the Treaty of Waitangi.” — Synopsis, Peter Calder, New Zealand Film Festival 2005 THE LAST RESORT ✯ Takitimu Marae 12.00 p.m. Saturday October 21st 2006

THE LAST RESORT SPECIAL PRESENTATION Documentary | D: Errol Wright & Abi King-Jones | 2006 | New Zealand | 87 mins | DVD With: Murray Horton, Moana Jackson, Rod Donald, Harry Evison, Roger Kerr, Ngaromoana Raureti- Tomoana, Rakiihia Tau, Maxine Boag, Max Bryant, Lis Battes Opoutama’s Blue Bay Motor Camp has recently become a focus for community dissent following its sale into private hands and subsequent closure, subdivision and sale. The story of Blue Bay Motor Camp and the response of campers and the local, largely-Maori, community form the human nexus of an exploration of the impact of overseas ownership of New Zealand property and skyrocketing property prices in low-income communities all around New Zealand. Film-makers Abi King-Jones and Errol Wright “bring the theme of Paradise Lost uncomfortably close to home in their documentary about ‘overseas investment’ in New Zealand” (NZ Film Festival). It is hoped to have a panel discussion with the film-makers at the conclusion of the screening.

39 RANGATAHI DOCUMENTARY SHOWCASE ✯ Takitimu Marae 3.00 p.m. Friday October 20th 2006 (Total Screening time: 80 mins)

PLEASE LORD Music Video | D: Ben Cowper | 2006 | New Zealand | 3 mins | DVD Local Gisborne talent Luminous present their music video Please Lord.

WHAKATAKA TE HAU Music Video | D: Candida Keithley | 2005 | New Zealand | 4 mins | DVD The Karakia “Whakataka Te Hau” was set to music by students at Te Atarangi and filmed as a short story / music video for Maori Television.

GUARDIANS OF THE MAURI Waitakere City Eco Docu-Drama, Digital Animation | 2005 | 20 minutes | DVD An animated underwater adventure in a Waitakere stream. Presented in Te Reo Maori.

SO FAR, YET SO CLOSE Short Documentary | D: Sophie Zhang | 2005 | New Zealand | 26 mins | DVD This success story tells how a boy from Huntly used music to teach Maori culture to pupils at a school for blind children in Tianjin, China and gave them hope for their future. A story of dreams that shows how a love of music transcends race, culture and disability. So Far, Yet So Close is an entry to the Wairoa Maori Film Festival.

STYLIN’ UP Short Documentary | 2005 | 13 mins | Australia | DVD An annual community hip hop event in Brisbane is focused on indigenous talent. Stylin’ Up is an entry to the Wairoa Maori Film Festival.

THE SPEAKER Short Film | Te Arepa Kahi | 2005 | New Zealand | 14 min | DVD The Speaker, follows a young tagger whose midnight marauding gets his younger brother in trouble with the cops.

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40 SQUEEGEE BANDIT ✯ Gaiety Theatre & Cinema 9.30 p.m. Friday October 20th 2006

SQUEEGEE BANDIT LATE NIGHT SPECIAL Long Documentary | D: Sandor Lau | P: Rhonda Kite, Sandor Lau | 2006 | New Zealand | 75 mins | DVD | With Starfish, MC Zodiac, Tony McGifford, Viani Paulo, Jeannie McGifford, Shivonne Annette “Sándor Lau tells us that he is New Zealand’s only Chinese Hungarian- American. He discovered Aotearoa in 2000 as a Fulbright scholar. He discovered Starfish, his Squeegee Bandit, on the streets of South Auckland where he earns a living cleaning car windscreens, pouncing with the speed and grace of a tiger. Starfish is a charmer with a quick wit and a dangerous edge, an exhibitionist with a mean talent for impersonation and a lot to say about himself and those who put him where he is today. He vents about the stepfather of his kids, about the foster mother who mocked and bullied him, and about the Pakeha who stole Maori land. Lau is with him all the way, underscoring his explosive anger with plangent guitar chords, and underscoring the historical perspective with wacky excerpts from old government films. His frantic freeze-frame hip-hop music-vid style amounts to a virtuoso exercise in keeping up with his volatile subject. But in a lyrically ironic Christmas shopping sequence and in the long parting shot, he wishes his prancing tiger safe haven as well.” — Synopsis from NZ Film Festival. Squeegee Bandit is an entry to the Wairoa Maori Film Festival. Preceded by: MEET THE PRICK Long Documentary | D: Ilya Ruppeldt | 2005 | New Zealand | 26 mins | DVD Tame Iti stands up for his people. Uncompromising, ambitious, he’s Tuhoe first, Maori second, and would claim Aotearoa as his country ahead of New Zealand. ‘Meet The Prick” picks up a phrase used by both sides in a clash between Iti and a conservative politician. Meet The Prick is an entry to the Wairoa Maori Film Festival.

41 SIVA PACIFICA: LAST VOICES OF HEAVEN ✯ Takitimu Marae 10.00 a.m. Monday October 23rd 2006

SIVA PACIFICA: LAST VOICES OF HEAVEN Documentary | D: Steve Best | 2003 | Australia | 90 mins | DVD | National Geographic Channel Siva Pacifica: Last Voices From Heaven is the story of the most dangerous journey ever undertaken in the search for indigenous music. Music producer Anthony Copping risks his life to seek out and record the magical and endangered music of Melanesia’s peoples, travelling to the most remote locations of the Pacific. This is the story of his passion and 15 year dedication to Pacific culture and in the process; we truly get to hear the last voices of heaven. Print Source: National Geographic Channel

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TAU TE MAURI – BREATH OF PEACE ✯ Takitimu Marae 2.00 p.m. Saturday October 21st 2006

TAU TE MAURI – BREATH OF PEACE SPECIAL PRESENTATION Documentary | D: Kathleen Gallagher and Ruth Greenaway | 2005 | New Zealand | 72 mins | DVD Tau Te Mauri Breath of Peace means to settle the mauri, to breath peace into the world. It is a unique documentary featuring stories of eight well known New Zealand Peace activists, natural history footage and contemporary Maori music - waiata and taonga puoro (traditional Maori musical instruments). Kathleen Gallagher and Ruth Greenaway were awarded the Sonja Davies Peace Award by the New Zealand Prime Minister for the film Tau Te Mauri Breath Of Peace. It is hoped to have a panel discussion with the film-makers at the conclusion of the screening. TIME & TIDE ✯ Takitimu Marae 10.00 a.m. Sunday October 22nd 2006

TIME & TIDE Documentary | 2005 | D: Julie Bayer, Josh Salzman | USA | 59 mins | DVD In English and Tuvaluan, with English subtitles “Filmmakers Julie Bayer and Josh Salzman offer a thought-provoking visit to the land and people of the tiny Pacific nation of Tuvalu, threatened with possible extinction by the twin oppressions of global warming and economic globalisation. The film follows a group of Tuvaluan New Zealanders returning to their homeland, many for the first time in decades, and others, the children of immigrants, for the first time ever. The voyage to Funafuti is full of nostalgia, but they soon discover that Tuvalu has changed a lot since they left it behind. A multi-million dollar deal with an internet company has brought new development, altering the landscape and bringing foreigners to the island. But a greater threat looms from the steadily rising sea level, driven by climate change resulting from global warming, swallowing up preciously limited land.” – Synopsis NZ Film Festival 2006.

42 OTHER INFORMATION TICKET PRICING A Booking Sheet is attached. The pricing schedule for Festival Tickets is as follows: Awards Gaiety Opening Screening PRICE GUIDE Takitimu Cabaret Cinema Night Gala Pass Dinner General Admission $12 $5 $25 $50 $250 Concession Rate $10 $4 $25 $50 $200 Friends of the Festival, Senior Citizen, Student The following screenings are FREE screenings: • Maori Merchant of Venice, Sunday October 22nd, 1.00 p.m., Gaiety Cinema • Mark II, Monday October 23rd, 7.00 p.m., Gaiety Cinema Tickets go on sale late September at TICKETEK offices nationwide in late September 2006. • TICKETEK Phone 09 307 5000 www.ticketek.co.nz Tickets will be available in Wairoa from late September at: • Wairoa Visitors Centre, Paul Street, WAIROA Phone 06 838 7440 The Wairoa Maori Film Festival Office will operate daily from Wednesday October 18th to Monday October 21st 2006. Ticket sales will be available at the Festival Office (Cash Only). EFT POS and Credit Card sales will be available at the Wairoa Visitors Centre over the festival weekend. The Wairoa Maori Film Festival reserves the right to alter without notice any screening venue or advertised schedule of events. Censors Board rating of dramatic works will be displayed at the Festival Office from Wednesday October 18th 2006. Majority of documentary selection will be presented as ratings exempt. ACCOMMODATION Once you get to Wairoa, there are a range of accommodation options available: • Vista Motor Lodge & Restaurant Ph. 06.838.8279 • Three Oaks Motel Ph. 06.838.8204 • Wairoa Riverside Motor Camp Ph. 06.838.6301 • Clyde Hotel Ph. 06.838.7139 GISBORNE • Ferry Hotel & Motel Ph. 06.838.8229 New Zealand Further afield, there is accommodation at Morere Hot Springs and Mahia Beach, both approx. 1/2 hour from Wairoa: • Morere Tea Rooms & Motor Camp Ph. 06.837.8792 • Mahia Beach Motor Camp Ph. 06.837.5830 • The Quarters, Mahanga • Braeside Motel Ph. 06.837.5752 A full range of accommodation options are available by contacting the: • Wairoa Visitor Information Centre: Ph. 06.838.7440 GETTING TO WAIROA WHERE IS WAIROA? The township of Wairoa is one hour by car from Gisborne and an hour and a half from Napier and Hastings. There is a small airport in Wairoa, but it has no regular flight service. Daily flights from Auckland and Wellington do go to Gisborne and Napier airports, with rental car services available at both locations. For flight bookings AUCKLAND to Gisborne, contact Air New Zealand. For flights bookings to Napier, contact Air New Zealand or Origin GISBORNE Pacific. The road from Gisborne is less difficult and skirts the Wairoa coastline between Nuhaka and Wairoa WAIROA township. The road from Napier is more difficult, but includes a scenic journey past Lake Tutira and through NAPIER the Mohaka gorge. Inter City Coach Services run a daily service to Wairoa from Napier and Gisborne, with convenient connections across the North Island to Auckland and Wellington. WELLINGTON ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The Board of the Wairoa Maori Film Festival – Te Roopu Whakaata Maori I Te Wairoa Inc. wishes to thank the community of Wairoa for helping us make the dream of the festival a reality, and we wish to thank the Maori film-makers of Aotearoa whose vision we aim to celebrate and support. Thanks to all the kuia and kaumatua who are making themselves available for the welcoming and hospitality of our guests. Thanks to Gaiety Cinema, Takitimu and Taihoa maraes for hosting guests and screenings. To the people of Rongomaiwahine, Kahungunu ki te Wairoa, Rakaipaaka, Tuhoe-Waikaremoana, Tama Te Rangi, Pahauwera, Hereheretau and all the other hapu whanau iwi of Te Tairawhiti and Wairoa Hopupu Honengenenge Matangirau ~ Thank You! CENSORSHIP The international indigenous programme is subject to Censors Board review, and therefore festival organisers cannot guarantee screening of all international works. Festival organisers will make all efforts to ensure films receive censors review, and will advise on censorship ratings at all screenings. Patrons will be advised at individual screenings on admittance ratings of all individual screening sessions. Final ratings of screening sessions will be advertised in the Wairoa Star. DISCLAIMER Many of the International films presented within have not yet been classified. Viewer discretion is advised. At the time of publication some films featured were still in negotiation regarding screening rights with the producer and/or distributors. However, the Wairoa Maori Film Festival will notify Ticketek immediately of all changes (if any) that will affect the onselling of tickets for films that have had to be withdrawn due to contractual requirements.

43 SCREENING INDEX Based on a True Story: Fat Freddy’s 35 Siva Pacifica – Last Voices of Heaven 42 CAAMA Aboriginal Documentaries 36 Squeegee Bandit 41 Elena: Pushing the Boundaries 37 Tau Te Mauri – Breath of Peace 42 Feathers of Peace 22 Te Rua 32 Finding My Way 37 Ten Canoes 32 In Conversation with Barry Barclay 15 The Flight of the Albatross 27 Indigenous Short Film Showcase 28 The Gathering: Whale Dreamers 38 Mana Wairoa: From The Archives 16 The Kaipara Affair 39 Maori Merchant of Venice 29 The Last Resort 39 Mark II (Closing Night) 18 The River Queen 31 Ngati (Opening Night Gala) 14 The Waimate Conspiracy 33 No. 2 29 Time and Tide 42 Pollywood 2006 30 Trail of Te Kooti (Festival Centrepiece) 17 Rangatahi Documentary Showcase 40 Whale Rider 33

FILM INDEX All The Time 30 So Far, Yet So Close 23 Based On A True Story: Fat Freddy’s 35 So Far, Yet So Close 40 Blue Willow 29 Squeegee Bandit 41 Break 31 Stylin’ Up 35 Chi-Mnissing-N-Daa-Yaan 37 Stylin’ Up 40 Conversion 22 Talula Talula 30 Conversion 28 Tama Poata & Wi Kuki Kaa Tribute 14 Crookhat and Camphoo 36 Tau Te Mauri: The Breath of Peace 42 Elena: Pushing the Boundaries 33 Tavake 28 Endangered 36 Te Heru - The Comb 28 Finding My Way 37 Te Rua 32 Flight of the Albatross 27 Ten Canoes 32 Guardians of the Mauri 27 The Feathers of Peace 22 Guardians of the Mauri 40 The Gathering: Whale Dreamers 38 Hawaikii 17 The Kaipara Affair 39 Hawaikii 28 The Last Resort 39 In Your Absence 30 The Little Things 32 Link 28 The Lore of Love 36 Luminous - Please Lord 36 The River Queen 31 Ma Tatou (Wairoa) 33 The Speaker 18 Maori Merchant of Venice 29 The Speaker 28 Maori Musical Showcase 9 The Speaker 40 Mark II 18 The Te Kooti Trail 29 Meet The Prick 41 The Waimate Conspiracy 33 My Place 38 Time and Tide 42 Ngati 14 Turangawaewae 14 Niue - This Is Your Land 30 Whakataka Te Hau 27 No. 2 29 Whakataka Te Hau 40 Please Lord 40 Whale Rider 33 Scrub 28 When The Sky Falls 30 Siva Pasifika Last Voices of Heaven 42 Yellow Fella 36

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