Saturday, 6 February 2021, 7:33 am
The Māoriland Film Festival, the largest Indigenous film
festival in the Southern Hemisphere, launches its 2021
programme on Waitangi Day.
The 8th annual film
festival will present 120 films and 50 events from 80
Indigenous nations over five days in March (24th -
28th).
Festival director Libby Hakaraia says the theme
for this year’s festival is Auahatanga Mō Te Ngākaupai -
Creative Positivity
“2020 was on track to be the
biggest festival we’d ever held with over 120
international guests heading to Otaki to celebrate
Indigenous stories and voices in cinema,” says
Hakaraia.
“But then the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted
Multi-instrumentalist
singer-songwriter
Nadia Reid will be
performing Friday 12 February.
Part wandering
minstrel, part traveling salesman, Delaney Davidson has
lived his life with one foot on the stage and one in the
road.
With over fifteen years of tireless touring and
nine studio albums under his belt, Delaney is a distinctive
figure in Aotearoa’s music scene.
In 2020 he
received the Tui for Best Country Music Artist from Recorded
Music New Zealand and has collaborated with artists like
Troy Kingi, Tami Neilson and Marlon Williams as he continues
to search for challenges and adventure in both music and his
own expression.