15 – 19 MARCH 2017 ŌTAKI Māoriland Film Festival returns to Ōtaki for MFF2017 – five days of films, workshops, and special events that celebrate indigenous filmmaking from around the globe! MFF2017 KEY DATES Waitangi Day 6 February 2017 MFF2017 programme (first glimpse) announced at Waitangi Day events in Wellington, Ōtaki and online. 24 February […]
In March of 2016, just days before Māoriland Film Festival 15 Indigenous Filmmakers gathered around Aotearoa to make a film. They had just 72 hours, with a budget of $800 NZD and yet five short films were produced. These films are The NATIVE Slam. Māoriland Film Festival in association with producer, Pauline Clague are delighted […]
Over the past three and a half years, Māoriland Film Festival has proven itself as a venue for the exhibition of Indigenous film and as an entertainment and education provider for the community of Ōtaki. During this period, our work has been largely volunteered. As of late August, Māoriland Film Festival is officially a charitable […]
There’s a perception that when you travel you learn and experience other countries. A natural response to this is to then compare what you are discovering with what you already know from home. Travelling to Canada, I expected this. What I didn’t expect was to become so astoundingly aware of how others perceived us, what others knew about us. […]
Based in Toronto, Canada, imagineNATIVE is the worlds largest International Indigenous Film Festival. In 2013, as Māoriland was amping up towards its inaugural season, imagineNATIVE chose to cast a spotlight on Māori Filmmaking. Whilst still in its infancy, Māoriland was there, co presenting two collections of short films. This relationship was then reciprocated in 2014 […]