Introducing Sunna
In 2014, Māoriland Film Festival established an international festival to festival exchange program, sending Madeleine de Young on a 21 hour plane journey to imagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival […]
How to Type Indigenous
When the Internet was developed it was coded in English with a Latin Alphabet. As of February 2016, Google translate supports 103 languages at various levels. This list is constantly […]
Māoriland Festival Programme 2016
The programme for Māoriland 2016 is now live and we are excited to share a line up that takes an epic journey from the stories of the Sámi in the […]
Māoriland Film Bus at Te Rā o Waitangi
This Saturday, Aotearoa celebrates the 176th Anniversary of the signing of Te Tiriti O Waitangi. In Wellington, Te Rā o Waitangi celebrations are expected to be bigger than ever and […]
Indigenous Filmmakers Recognised In Canadian Screen Award Nominations
Caroline Monnet (Algonquin) and Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers (Blackfoot/Sami) have both been nominated for Canadian Screen Awards for their respective works, Roberta and Bihttoš. Roberta and Bihttoš were commissioned by imagineNATIVE Film and Media […]
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – The Danger Of A Single Story
Stories matter. Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign, but stories can also be used to empower and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity […]
Māoriland Rangatahi prepare for The Someday Awards!
Rangatahi filmmakers prepare for their night on the red carpet as the top 20 award winning films have been named in this years ‘The Someday Challenge.’ The Someday Challenge asks […]
Submit your work to Māoriland 2016!
Māoriland has launched its film submission process for the 2016 Māoriland Film Festival at the 16th imagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival in Toronto. Festival Director Libby Hakaraia announced the […]
Māoriland is at imagineNATIVE in Toronto!
Māoriland Film Festival is excited to be at imagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival in Toronto, Canada for another year. Known colloquially to attendees as ‘Native Christmas’, imagineNATIVE is the […]
Māoriland Festival reviewed in International Film Online Magazine
Felicity Collins, Associate Professor in the Department of Arts and Critical Enquiry School of Humanities at La Trobe University Melbourne, reviews the inaugural festival in Senses of Cinema. Kia ora […]