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
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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
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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
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