NZIFF, Traces of Nut, and Make my Movie proudly Present:
How to Meet Girls from a Distance
a film by Dean Hewison
Toby has always been unlucky with girls. Ever since getting stabbed in the throat after asking a girl out in a cafe, Toby has resolved to learn everything he can about girls before meeting them, so he can become the man of their dreams. After faking yet another girlfriend his poor mother takes matters into her own hands and signs him up with a dating coach, Carl Stewar BA, with his unique methods and philosophies.
But Toby has finally found Phoebe and he thinks she's the girl of his dreams . She's intelligent, enchanting and she's hot - everything Toby has been looking for. Discovering everything she likes and suddenly developing an interest for Mark Twain and capoeira, Toby is set for success.
But this girl brings challenges Toby hasn't had to face before - including a boyfriend - and Toby finds himself crossing lines he never thought he'd cross. Then there's the problem of how to keep her, without her finding out that he knows everything about her.
How far would you go for a crush?
From Make My Movie:
This is a romantic comedy that will be enjoyed by guys as well as the girls. How to Meet Girls from a Distance is the first feature film made from the Make My Movie Competition with a 100K budget, a 7 month turnaround time, and a solid helping of Kiwi goodwill. Executive Producer, Ant Timpson wanted to see the “wildly creative and the untapped potential that lay dormant in the NZ film landscape”. Banking on the 48 Hours format which prizes spontaneity, high energy, and creativity, How to Meet Girls from a Distance is made by Wellington veterans, Traces of Nut.
The ‘peeping tom rom-com’ How to Meet Girls From a Distance features three Canterbury University graduates on their crew: Producer Ruth Korver, first Assistant Director Daniel Lynch, and Sam Harris who made the production diaries, are all graduates of Canterbury University.
How to Meet Girls from a Distance is a film not to miss for anyone who has ever had a crush that got out of control.
Website: How to Meet Girls from a Distance
Session Times
Tuesday 21 August | 8.15pm | Hoyts Northlands
Wednesday 22 August | Hoyts Northlands venue sales only
| ||
|
Monday, August 13, 2012
NZIFF: How to Meet Girls from a Distance
Wednesday, August 8, 2012
NZIFF presents short treats
Presents
Ngā Whanaunga Māori Pasifika Shorts
84min approx/M offensive language
This programme has been curated for NZIFF by Leo Koziol of the Wairoa Māori Film Festival
"It is our privilege this year to work alongside the New Zealand International Film Festival to premiere the Māori and Pasifika short film collection for 2012. We have titled this year’s collection ‘Ngā Whanaunga’, which means relatedness and connectedness between peoples. Māori are part of the great Pasifika whānau; our Polynesian peoples journeyed on the same waka from Hawaiiki, and are related by culture, language and blood and in wairuatanga (soulfulness) across our vast sea Moana-nui-a-kiwa. Screening Māori works alongside Pasifika is symbolic of the whanaungatanga and connectedness of our peoples. Kia kaha." — Leo Koziol (Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāti Rakaipaaka), Director of the Wairoa Māori Film Festival.
Snow in Paradise
NZ 2011. Directors: Justine Simei-Barton, Nikki Si’ulepa Producer:Paul Simei-Barton Screenplay: Nikki Si’ulepa Festivals: Berlin 2012. 8 mins
The sun is shining and nature provides us with clear seawater for the fish, coconut for the land. The islanders live a happy, healthy life – until, far away, a fire rises.
Baby Steps
The sun is shining and nature provides us with clear seawater for the fish, coconut for the land. The islanders live a happy, healthy life – until, far away, a fire rises.
Baby Steps
NZ 2012. Director/Screenplay: Mark Ruka (Ngāpuhi) Producers:Sheri O’Neill, Fred Renata. 9 mins
A man, a baby; one little step at a time. When Joe is left in charge of his baby son for the first time he must leave his past behind and prove he’s ready for fatherhood.
A man, a baby; one little step at a time. When Joe is left in charge of his baby son for the first time he must leave his past behind and prove he’s ready for fatherhood.
Tatau
NZ 2012. Director/Screenplay: Chantelle Burgoyne Producers:Zanna Gillespie, Graeme E. Bibby, Chantelle Burgoyne. 15 mins
As Siaki’s vision fails with age, memories of the painful tattooing he underwent in his youth haunt him as he yearns to see his tattoo completed before it’s too late.
Whakatiki
Whakatiki
NZ 2012. Director: Louise Leitch Producer: Melissa DoddsScreenplay: Bernadette Murphy (Te Āti Awa) Festivals: Tribeca 2012.13 mins
Kiri, a Māori woman painfully aware of her weight, takes a trip with family and friends to the Whakatiki River where she spent many summers as a girl. The place awakens powerful memories.
Nine of Hearts
Nine of Hearts
NZ 2012. Director: Briar Grace-Smith (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Wai) Producer:Alexandra Keeble Screenplay: Briar Grace-Smith, Kelly Joseph. 15 mins
Trembling with energy and a kind of hybrid Māori-Pākehā spiritual magic, this film is about the cards Gen, a Pākehā mother, has already been dealt, and the cards she is choosing to play now. Drawn forward by her two high-pitched fairy children, Gen must ultimately confront Nola, her teenage Māori daughter, who has wisdom beyond her years – and fury at her mother to match.
The Dump
The Dump
NZ 2012. Director/Screenplay: Hamish Bennett (Te Arawa, Ngāpuhi, Kāi Tahu) Producer: Orlando Stewart. 10 mins
Told through the eyes of 11-year-old Utah, The Dump is a story about a boy discovering there’s more to his dad than just rubbish. Filmed in Tauraroa in Northland.
The Lawnmower Men of Kapu
NZ 2011. Director/Screenplay: Libby Hakaraia (Ngāti Raukawa, Ngāti Kapumanawawhiti) Producer: Tainui Stephens. 14 mins
NZ 2011. Director/Screenplay: Libby Hakaraia (Ngāti Raukawa, Ngāti Kapumanawawhiti) Producer: Tainui Stephens. 14 mins
Atawhai is a boy on the verge of manhood, and he is counting on his three uncles to help the aunties. But the uncles have a major falling out with each other. Atawhai learns a valuable lesson about family and tradition, and his place in both.
Session Times
Saturday 18 August | 1.30pm| Hoyts Northlands
Wednesday 22 August | 11.30am| Hoyts Northlands venue sales only
Discounts are available for group bookings of 20 or more.
Email cinerama@xtra.co.nz for details
Email cinerama@xtra.co.nz for details
The New Zealand Film Festival Trust
PO Box 9544, Marion Square, Wellington 6141, New Zealand
E festival@nzff.co.nz
Tuesday, August 7, 2012
NZIFF presents: a Focus on the Two Poles
Presents
Two films from opposite sides of the Earth. The Last Ocean directed by Peter Young on The Ross Sea and Chasing Ice from director Jeff Orlowski on the receding Arctic glaciers.
The Last Ocean
guest appearance from director: Peter Young
The Last Ocean is a documentary directed by Peter Young, one of the country's leading nature cameramen and a key figure in the international movement to end fishing in the Ross Sea. Facing depleted fisheries everywhere else the fishing industry has found its way south to the last pristine marine ecosystem on earth and to the Antarctic toothfish. The fishers plan to remove 50% of the adult toothfish from the Ross Sea and in doing so will destroy the natural balance of Earth's last untouched ocean. Environmentalists, commercial fishers and governments are going head to head over this issue, which raises the question: do we fish the last ocean or do we protect it?
Session Times
Thursday 23 August | 8.30pm | Hoyts Northlands | with Peter Young
Friday 24 August | 1.30pm | Hoyts Northlands venue sales only | with Peter Young
Saturday 25 August | 6.30pm | Hoyts Northlands | with Peter Young
Sunday 26 August | 11.45am | Hoyts Northlands | with Peter Young
Chasing Ice
dir. Jeff Orlowski
Chasing Ice is the story of one man's mission to change the
tide of history by gathering undeniable evidence of our changing planet.
Within months of that first trip to Iceland, the photographer conceived
the boldest expedition of his life: The Extreme Ice Survey. With a band
of young adventurers in tow, Balog began deploying revolutionary
time-lapse cameras across the brutal Arctic to capture a multi-year
record of the world's changing glaciers.
Session Times
Saturday 18 August | 7.15pm | Hoyts Northlands |
Sunday 19 August | 4.30pm | Hoyts Northlands|
Tuesday 21 August | 2.15pm |
Hoyts Northlands|
The New Zealand Film Festival Trust
PO Box 9544, Marion Square, Wellington 6141, New Zealand
E festival@nzff.co.nz
Sunday, August 5, 2012
NZIFF: Meet the Makers
Presents
Meeting the Creative Minds
Christchurch is lucky enough to host six films where the director will be present for a Q&A session at the screening. This is a rare opportunity to probe the minds of the person behind the film and hopefully satisfy any questions you may have.
The Last Dogs of Winter
guest appearance from director/editor: Costa Botes
guest appearance from director/editor: Costa Botes
 |
The
Canadian Eskimo Dog, or Qimmiq, were once indispensible to human life
in the Canadian arctic. Today, the breed faces extinction. Since 1976
Brian Ladoon has stuck to a promise to maintain a viable breeding
colony battling chronic underfunding, wandering polar bears,
officialdom and a harsh natural environment to keep his word. This is the story
discovered by a young New Zealand actor, Caleb Ross, after he went to
Canada looking for love, but instead found a unique adventure and a
cause.
Session Times
Saturday 11 August | 11.00am | Hoyts Northlands
Tuesday 14 August | 8.30pm | Hoyts Northlands | with Costa Botes
Wednesday 15 August | 11.00am | Hoyts Northlands venue sales only | with Costa Botes
How Far is Heaven
guest appearance from directors: Chris Pryor and Miriam Smith
guest appearance from directors: Chris Pryor and Miriam Smith
The Sisters of Compassion have lived in the remote village of Jerusalem / Hiruharama on the Whanganui River in New Zealand for 120 years. Today, only three nuns remain - their legacy on the river is coming to an end. This is a complex world of powerful dualities; Maori & Christian spirituality, gang parties & prayers, pig hunting and perfume appreciation... Over the course of a year, the film follows the journey of Sister Margaret Mary, the newest Sister to Jerusalem, who is a regular volunteer at the local school. Through an intimate, observational gaze, the film is captivated by the spellbinding personalities of the local kids, whose humour and unique philosophies transcend the harsher realities of life. Throughout all seasons, the Sisters’ daily practice of compassion engages with the traditions of local Maori. Together they must learn to navigate lifeʼs heartbreak and joy.
Session Times
Thursday 16 August | 6.15pm | Hoyts Northlands | with Chris Pryor and Miriam Smith
Friday 17 August | 11.45am | Hoyts Northlands venue sales only| with Chris Pryor and Miriam Smith
Pictures of Susan
guest appearance from director: Dan Salmon
guest appearance from director: Dan Salmon
Auckland 'outsider artist' Susan King stopped talking in 1955 when she was four years old and has said next to nothing since. Her grandmother recognised the little girl's talent for drawing and kept her supplied with coloured pencils and paper. For 20 years Susan described her world in thousands of drawings, pages filled with delight, playfulness, curiosity and terror. Then she stopped. Her family sadly packed her pictures into boxes and stored them under beds and in the attic. There were 20 years of silence before she drew again.
Session Times
Friday 24 August | 11.00am | Hoyts Northlands venue sales only | with Dan Salmon
Friday 24 August | 6.30pm | Hoyts Northlands | with Dan Salmon
Saturday 25 August | 2.00pm | Hoyts Northlands
Song of the Kauri
guest appearance from director: Mathurin Molgat
.jpg)
Filmmaker Mathurin Molgat tells us that New Zealand lost 96% of its native Kauri forests through felling and fire between 1820 and 1974. Land clearances account for much more of that statistic than any timber trade. Molgat's documentary is a labour of clear-eyed love, addressing the politics of exotic tree plantations in a land where the native species are uniquely beautiful and may possess a commercial potential that has never been explored. Without demonising the perpetrators Molgat explains the history of destruction, then finds inspiration in a man whose craft is dependent on chopping down more trees- judiciously and one at a time.
Session Times
Wednesday 15 August | 6.15pm | Hoyts Northlands | with Mathurin Molgat
Thursday 16 August | 11.00am | Hoyts Northlands venue sales only | with Mathurin Molgat
The Last Ocean
guest appearance from director: Peter Young
The Last Ocean is a documentary directed by Peter Young, one of the country's leading nature cameramen and a key figure in the international movement to end fishing in the Ross Sea. Facing depleted fisheries everywhere else the fishing industry has found its way south to the last pristine marine ecosystem on earth and to the Antarctic toothfish. The fishers plan to remove 50% of the adult toothfish from the Ross Sea and in doing so will destroy the natural balance of Earth's last untouched ocean. Environmentalists, commercial fishers and governments are going head to head over this issue, which raises the question: do we fish the last ocean or do we protect it?
Session Times
Thursday 23 August | 8.30pm | Hoyts Northlands | with Peter Young
Friday 24 August | 1.30pm | Hoyts Northlands venue sales only | with Peter Young
Saturday 25 August | 6.30pm | Hoyts Northlands | with Peter Young
Sunday 26 August | 11.45am | Hoyts Northlands | with Peter Young
guest appearance from director: Paora Te Oti Takarangi Joseph
In
1881 the children of Parihaka greeted the
invading Armed Constabulary with white feathers of peace, in accord
with the philosophy of peaceful resistance taught by their two
leaders, Te Whiti o Rongomai and Tohu Kākahi. Tatarakihi
– The Children of Parihaka tells the
story of a ‘journey of memory’ taken by a group of Parihaka
children who travel to the South Island 130 years later. They follow
in the footsteps of their male ancestors who were transported south
after the Taranaki land confiscations of the 1860s.
Session Times
Friday 17 August | 1.45pm | Hoyts Northlands venue sales only | with Paora Joseph
Sunday 19 August | 2.30pm | Hoyts Northlands | with Paora Joseph
The New Zealand Film Festival Trust
PO Box 9544, Marion Square, Wellington 6141, New Zealand
E festival@nzff.co.nz
Monday, July 30, 2012
NZIFF presents the latest from Studio Ghibli: From Up on Poppy Hill
Presents
From Up on Poppy Hill
(Kokurikozaka Kara)
dir. GORO MIYAZAKI
(Kokurikozaka Kara)
dir. GORO MIYAZAKI
Set in Yokohama in the year 1963, “From Up On Poppy Hill” is a love story whose main characters are the high school students who were to become the first generation of a new Japan. As the country begins to pick itself up from the devastation of the Second World War, the new generation struggles with moving forward into a prosperous future while trying not to lose the things from the past that make them who they are. The film’s rich and vibrant animation captures the entrancing beauty of the Yokohama harbor setting and lush surrounding hillsides and, with a soundtrack that draws from the finest music of the time, perfectly captures the thrills of young romance and the hope of a new dawn.
Session Times:
Saturday August 18 | 4:00pm |Hoyts Northlands
Sunday August 19 | 1:15pm | Hoyts Northlands
Monday August 20 | 4:15pm | Hoyts Northlands | Venue Sales Only
The New Zealand Film Festival Trust,
PO Box 9544, Marion Square, Wellington 6141, New Zealand
E festival@nzff.co.nz
PO Box 9544, Marion Square, Wellington 6141, New Zealand
E festival@nzff.co.nz
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)