matariki kiriata 2023

TE PAPA TONGAREWA

Wairoa Māori Film Festival screenings: Maiea Pōhutukawa

Wairoa Māori Film Festival comes to Te Papa! Enjoy an array of films guided by the star connected to those who have passed on.

When | Āhea. Friday 14 Jul 2023, 10.30am–6.00pm

Where | Ki hea. Soundings Theatre, Level 2

Cost | Te utu. Free event

Kiriata: Maiea Pōhutukawa
Soundings Theatre, Level 2
10.30am–6.00pm

Kua tae mai te Taiopenga Kiriata Māori o Te Wairoa  ki Te Papa. Mātakitia mai ngā kiriata e pā ana ki te whetū e taki nei i ō tātou mate.

Tāria ka pāhotia te hōtaka.

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PROGRAMME

10.30 am: Māori Shorts: Tahi (47 min)
Kerosene Creek (13 min) Michael Bennett
The Brylcreem Boys (14 min) Rafer Raujtoki
Nancy from Now On (20 min) Keely Meechan

11.30 am: Māori Shorts: Rua (41 min)
He Ōhākī - Imparting Words of Wisdom (10 min) Kararaina Rangihau
Disrupt  (13 min) Aroha Awarau & Jennifer Te Atamira Ward Lealand
The Difference Between Pipi and Pūpū (18 min) Tajim Mohammed-Kapa

12.30 pm: Moana Jackson Portrait of a Quiet Revolutionary (49 min)
by Moana Maniapoto & Toby Mills. Called a disruptor, navigator, transformer and visionary, Moana Jackson was many things to many people. Towards the end of his battle with cancer he sat down to talk about his life and groundbreaking work in Māori criminal justice and constitutional reform with broadcaster and ‘niece’ Moana Maniapoto.

1.30 pm: Māori Shorts: Toru – curated by Te Kurahuia (60 min)
Uha (3 min) Te Kurahuia
Turangawaewae (13 min) Peter Burger
Disconnected (17 min) Maruia Jensen
Daddy's Girl Kōtiro (11 min) Cian Elyse White
Ūkaipō Whenua (16 min) Kararaina Rangihau

3.00 pm: Māori Shorts: Whā (46 min)
Journey to Ihipa (15 min) Nancy Brunning
Washday (14 min) Kath Akuhata Brown
Follow the Light (17 min) Cameron Madams

4.00  pm : Whetū Mārama-Bright Star (94 min) by Aileen O'Sullivan & Toby Mills
For Māori, the canoe underpins our culture. We once built waka/canoes from giant trees and sailed the vast Pacific by the stars. These arts were lost to us for 600 years. Then the stars re-aligned and three men from far flung islands met by chance to revive our place as the greatest navigators on the planet, a Hawaiian, a Micronesian and Hek Busby, “The Chief” from Aotearoa/New Zealand.

5.30 pm Close

SHORTS Programme

10.30 am: Māori Shorts: Tahi (47 min)

Kerosene Creek (13 min) Michael Bennett

The Brylcreem Boys (14 min) Rafer Raujtoki

Nancy from Now On (20 min) Keely Meechan

11.30 am: Māori Shorts: Rua (41 min)

He Ōhākī - Imparting Words of Wisdom (10 min) Kararaina Rangihau

Disrupt  (13 min) Aroha Awarau & Jennifer Te Atamira Ward Lealand

The Difference Between Pipi and Pūpū (18 min) Tajim Mohammed-Kapa

shorts programme (continued)

1.30 pm: Māori Shorts: Toru – curated by Te Kurahuia (60 min)

Uha (3 min) Te Kurahuia

Turangawaewae (13 min) Peter Burger

Disconnected (17 min) Maruia Jensen

Daddy's Girl Kōtiro (11 min) Cian Elyse White

Ūkaipō Whenua (16 min) Kararaina Rangihau

3.00 pm: Māori Shorts: Whā (46 min)

Journey to Ihipa (15 min) Nancy Brunning

Washday (14 min) Kath Akuhata Brown

Follow the Light (17 min) Cameron Madams
The film follows Lena, a first-year student, returning to Wellington with a desire to connect with her Māori culture. Through her dreams, and with the help of the mysterious Tai, Lena's curiosity leads her on a fantastical journey to confront the secrets of her past, present, and future.

About the Wairoa Māori Film Festival

Based on the East Coast, the Wairoa Māori Film Festival is the longest-running Māori and Indigenous film festival of Aotearoa New Zealand. Each year, filmmakers and film fans alike gather at Kahungunu Marae, Nūhaka, for a weekend of kiriata Māori and wānanga celebrating the best of Māori storytelling on screen. Kahungunu Marae is famed for being in John O’Shea’s Broken Barrier, the only feature film made in New Zealand in the 1950s. We also celebrate Māori film at our giant-screen art-deco Gaiety Theatre which was lovingly restored by the local community, where we host our Māori film awards gala every year including the annual WIFT Mana Wahine Award.

The festival each year is part of the living history of Māori and New Zealand cinema.