Māoriland Film Festival's 2020 Pitch competition went online this year with 18 projects pitching for $7000 worth of prizes. 17 short film and animation projects were pitched to a panel
Māoriland Film Festival Pitch Competition 2020
Māoriland Film Festival’s 2020 Pitch competition went online this year with 18 projects pitching for $7000 worth of prizes. 17 short film and animation projects were pitched to a panel […]
Māoriland Film Festival seeks Indigenous filmmakers from across the globe for the fourth annual NATIVE Slam!
The NATIVE Slam is an international Indigenous filmmaking challenge. Each year in the days leading up to Māoriland Film Festival Indigenous filmmakers team up in New Zealand to make a […]
MĀORILAND 2019 – Call For Submissions
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 […]
MĀORILAND 2018 – Call For Submissions
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 […]
Māoriland Film Festival – Officially a Charitable Organisation
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
MĀORILAND FILM FESTIVAL DIRECTOR SELECTED FOR INTERNATIONAL JURY
Maoriland Film Festival Director Libby Hakaraia is the first person outside of North America to be invited to be a Jury member at the ImagineNATIVE Film Festival. Libby will watch […]
Māoriland Film Festival partners with prestigious international partners at BERLINALE
Māoriland Film Festival is pleased to announce its participation in NATIVe – Indigenous Cinema, the first-ever market stand dedicated to promoting indigenous films and videos at the European Film Market (EFM) […]
From Māoriland to imagineNATIVE RNZ Interview
Lawnmower operator Pat Hakaraia recalls helping train actors Rāwiri Paratene, Sonny Arahanga and Rob Mokaraka to operate his ride-on mowers for the short film, The Lawnmower Men of Kapu. This […]
Māori Filmmakers: Telling Our Stories To The World
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 […]