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
Photo: Unsplash / Matthew Ansley
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He also found two breaches of the United Nations Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.
Former prisoner and justice reform advocate Awatea Mita said she was appalled at the findings. Corrections has no credibility in being able to deliver the Hōkai Rangi strategy, this was about delivering better outcomes for Māori and their whānau because of the significant overrepresentation of Māori in the Corrections system and they re failing to do that.
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The Chief Ombudsman s report revealed that prisoners were being locked in cells for up to 23 hours a day at Paremoremo. Photo / Doug Sherring
The Chief Ombudsman s report revealed that prisoners were being locked in cells for up to 23 hours a day at Paremoremo. Photo / Doug Sherring
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