For five Tuesday evenings in a row, the Māoriland Hub hosted a series of interactive kōrero called NATIVE MINDS. These were informal occasions where exceptional indigenous thinkers gathered to share what was on their mind – alongside a regular group of like minded minds. Twelve guest speakers from within our community and beyond, joined us […]
At 16 yrs old, Oriwa Hakaraia and Te Mahara Tamehana are Aotearoa’s youngest directors to debut at an international festival. They need your support!
M.A.T.C.H GOES TO SYDNEY! ‘Indigenous knowledge will save the planet,” The central statement for Ōtaki teenager Kaea Hakaraia-Hosking’s winning INDIGI HACK pitch. Held in Sydney, Australia on August 8-9, the inaugural INDIGI HACK was a two-day hackathon targeted at Indigenous youth aged 8 – 18 aimed at developing new appbased technology to revitalise and retain […]
The E Tū Whānau Rangatahi Film Challenge is an opportunity for rangatahi up to the age of 24 to create films that present their perspective as young people in Aotearoa. In 2018, Māoriland Charitable Trust travelled to six communities across Aotearoa leading free filmmaking workshops for rangatahi. Films were then entered to the E Tū Whānau Rangatahi […]
E Tū Whānau is a movement for positive change. The E Tū Whānau Rangatahi Film Challenge is a collaboration between Māoriland and E Tū Whānau where rangatahi film leaders travel across Aotearoa to teach other rangatahi how to make films. Each workshop is just two days long. In this time, the workshop participants have to brainstorm, […]
Announcing the programme for the largest Indigenous film festival in the southern hemisphere The biggest Indigenous film festival in the southern hemisphere is almost here. Hosted in Ōtaki on the Kāpiti Coast, the sixth annual Māoriland Film Festival (MFF) is bringing over 138 films and 62 events from 94 Indigenous nations to Aotearoa. The 2019 […]
Māoriland Film Festival thrives thanks to the support of a great many of our community and those who have come from near and far to lend a hand. Volunteers for MFF2019 now!
2018 was a big year for Māoriland and the Hub. Along with hosting a huge number of functions, we also get requests from folk asking about our plans for the future. We spent much of last year finding a way to generate the resources we need to use our amazing building in the best way […]
22 January 2019 Media Release ‘Vai’ – A tour de force from female filmmakers will have its Southern hemisphere premiere at the sixth annual Māoriland Film Festival in Ōtaki in March. Made by the producers of the critically acclaimed ‘Waru’, ‘Vai’ is a portmanteau feature film directed by nine Pacific Island filmmakers and filmed in […]
Each March, Māoriland Film Festival brings the world of Indigenous cinema to Ōtaki for five days of screenings workshops, art exhibitions and special events. The sixth annual Māoriland Film Festival will run from March 20 – 24 2019. Over the past five years, MFF has grown exponentially to be the largest international Indigenous film festival in […]