2024 Māoriland Film Festival hosts the largest programme to date
2024 Māoriland Film Festival hosts the largest programme to date 168 works from 130 Indigenous nations to screen at Māoriland Film Festival in Ōtaki – 20th to 24th March 2024
2024 Māoriland Film Festival hosts the largest programme to date 168 works from 130 Indigenous nations to screen at Māoriland Film Festival in Ōtaki – 20th to 24th March 2024
Māoriland invites film, video, digital and interactive media work and artwork (all mediums) made by Indigenous creatives to submit their projects for Māoriland Film Festival 2024. Māoriland Film Festival was founded in 2014 to celebrate Indigenous voices and storytelling in film. The MFF has grown to be the largest presenter of Indigenous storytelling in the […]
From March 15-19, the Māoriland Film Festival (MFF), the largest international Indigenous film festival in the world, celebrated its 10 year anniversary. 2023 marked Māoriland’s biggest film festival to date, with over 140 films screened from 150 Indigenous nations.The community of Ōtaki saw the return of international guests on a never-before-seen scale; with over 100 […]
The 10th Anniversary Māoriland Film Festival was held from March 15-19 in Ōtaki, Aotearoa. At the closing night’s Red Carpet event, the four award winning films were announced, chosen by audience vote. Māoriland Film Festival 2023 People’s Choice Winners are: ‘Tōtara’ Best Feature Film: Sweet As Dir. Jub Clerc (Nyul Nyul, Yawuru) In remote Pilbara […]
Māoriland Charitable Trust is excited to announce Puritia, a capability-building ecosystem for Māori and Indigenous filmmakers and digital creatives. At the heart of Puritia is an Indigenous IP statement, which is being developed with global indigenous partner Film Festivals and with leading Māori IP specialist Lynell Tuffery Huria. The first stage of Puritia – the […]
Māoriland celebrates ten years of collaboration with E Tū Whānau (ETW) for the annual Rangatahi (youth) Film Awards held during the Māoriland Film Festival (MFF). The ETW Rangatahi Film Awards recognise filmmakers aged 12-25 from all over Aotearoa who have created films throughout the year at Māoriland’s rangatahi-led workshops. In these two-day workshops, rangatahi are […]
After establishing the Māoriland Film Festival (MFF) 10 years ago, festival director Libby Hakaraia is stepping aside after the 2023 festival, with Madeleine Hakaraia de Young taking up the position. Under Libby’s stewardship, the MFF has grown to be the largest Indigenous film festival in the world, connecting audiences with a wide range of stories […]
From March 15 – 19 2023, Māoriland Film Festival (MFF) will present its largest programme yet in celebration of the 10th year of the festival. Today the festival announces the inclusion of three additional feature films, bringing the total number of films and interactive works in the programme to 148.
This year, the Māoriland Film Festival (MFF) celebrates a decade of Indigenous storytelling in Aotearoa and presents the largest showcase in the festival’s history.
Māoriland, New Zealand’s international Indigenous film festival is calling for submissions for MFF2023 – the 10th Māoriland Film Festival. MFF2023 runs from March 15 – 19, 2023. Five days of film screenings, immersive VR, new technology exhibits, a full visual arts programme, industry days, special events and more. The MFF was founded in 2014 to […]