This Thursday, 3 March, Māoriland, the home of the largest Indigenous Film Festival in the Southern Hemisphere will launch a Boosted crowdfunding campaign to produce the short film ‘He Karu, He Taringa’ written and directed by 23 year old rangatahi filmmaker Tahuaroa Ohia (Ngāi Te Rangi, Ngāti Pukenga, Ngāti Hine, Ngāpuhi). ‘He Karu, He Taringa’ […]
After the successful reversioning into te reo Māori of animated series ‘Island Of Mystery’ (playing on TVNZ) Māoriland has its first feature film, the popular ASTRO KID.
E ngā tai e whā o te motu, e ngā iwi taketake o te ao, Tēnā koutou katoa, Since Covid’s arrival on our planet in 2020, Māoriland Film Festival has adapted and evolved. And with the support of filmmakers and audiences we’ve been able to safely deliver the MFF in-person in 2020 and 2021. The in-person […]
Nā Tainui Stephens
We are very excited to announce that MĀORILAND PRODUCTIONS is a recipient of a He Ara grant from the New Zealand Film Commission. This grant will help Maoriland to develop a slate of Indigenous-led feature films. Māoriland has established a production company to support the talents of Māori and Indigenous storytellers. Over the Covid-19 […]
Submissions are now open for the 6th Annual Māoriland Film Festival, which will take place from March 20 – 24, 2019 in Ōtaki, New Zealand. Māoriland Film Festival (MFF) is Aotearoa’s International Indigenous film festival celebrating Indigenous voices and storytelling in film. Each March, Māoriland brings Indigenous films and their creators to Ōtaki on Aotearoa’s […]
E hoa mā, tēnā koutou. Koinei tonu te waka o Māoriland kua oti noa tōna whakatere i runga i ngā kare o ngā wai. Hei tērā mārama e ū anō ai ki Ōtaki, mō te ahurei kiriata te take: hei kai mā te whatu; me te rongo ō tātou ki te manawa tapu o iwi […]
The Māoriland Social Club brings together positive individuals, who support indigenous arts, films and culture, and who would like to engage socially with other awesome like-minded people, here in Ōtaki. For just $20 per month plus a $10 initial one off set up fee, members of the Māoriland Social Club will have entry into two film […]
Submissions are now open for the 5th Annual Māoriland Film Festival, which will take place from March 21 – 25, 2018 in Ōtaki, New Zealand. Hou mai koe ki roto i te whare kōrero o Māoriland. Ko tōna tāhuhu ko te iwi, ko te poutāhu ko te mana o te kupu, ko te poutuarongo ko te ira […]
Tainui Stephens, chair of the Māoriland Charitable Trust offers a report on what he saw: I bloody love going to the movies! There is nothing better than being in a comfy seat in a dark space watching a stunning big screen story. And somehow, by sitting with a crowd of expectant people who have also […]