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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]