Monkey Beach follows a woman returning to her hometown to discover how dysfunctional her family has become. The largest indigenous film festival in the Southern Hemisphere, Māoriland, is returning bigger than ever when it returns to Kāpiti next month. The festival has announced its programme for 2021 to coincide with Waitangi Day. Now in its eighth year, the festival will present 120 films and 50 events from 80 indigenous nations next month in Kāpiti, north of Wellington. Running from March 24-28 across several venues in Ōtaki, the theme for this year’s festival is Auahatanga Mō Te Ngākaupai or creative positivity.
Press Release – Maoriland Charitable Trust The Moriland 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 …
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
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
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