Kia ora shorts 2024
12 and 13 September
Home (2014) Dir: Chris Molloy, Writer: Aroha Awarau
Toi Pōneke and the Wairoa Māori Film Festival presents Kia Ora Shorts 2024. Two sessions of Māori-made short films with a film talk with Leo Koziol and guest speaker.
THURSDAY 12th September 5.30pm – 8pm (pax 40)
Upper West Chamber. Free Entry. Bookings essential.
Book here: Kia Ora Shorts 2024 - Wellington - Eventfinda
Presentation of six short films:
Home - Director Chris Molloy (Māori), Writer Aroha Awarau
Disrupt - Director Jennifer Te Atamira Ward-Lealand, Writer Aroha Awarau
Bringing Mere Home - Director Keelan Walker
Maunga Cassino - Director Paolo Rotondo, Writers Paolo Rotondo & Rob Mokaraka
Kōkako - Director Douglas Brooks
Biolumin – Director Moe Clark, Victoria Hunt
Film talk with Leo Koziol and guest speaker follows the screening.
FRIDAY 13th September 5.30pm – 8pm (pax 40)
Upper West Chamber. Free Entry. Bookings essential.
Presentation of six short films:
Home - Director Chris Molloy (Māori), Writer Aroha Awarau
Disrupt - Director Jennifer Te Atamira Ward-Lealand, Writer Aroha Awarau
Bringing Mere Home - Director Keelan Walker
Maunga Cassino - Director Paolo Rotondo, Writers Paolo Rotondo & Rob Mokaraka
Kōkako - Director Douglas Brooks
Biolumin – Director Moe Clark, Victoria Hunt
Film talk with Leo Koziol and guest speaker follows the screening.
Booking Here: Kia Ora Shorts 2024 - Wellington - Eventfinda
FULL FILM SYNOPSES
Home
Director Chris Molloy (Māori), Writer Aroha Awarau, 14 min 2014
(Rated M: Mature)
Discovering her two sons have committed a heinous crime, a devoted mother is torn by the heartbreaking decision she must make. Her sons may eventually forgive her, but can she ever forgive herself?
Disrupt
Jennifer Te Atamira Ward-Lealand, Writer Aroha Awarau, 13 min 2021
(Rated M: Offensive Language)
When a burglary goes wrong, CJ must choose between his whānau and his next fix. “A whānau bond can't be broken apart, even if the trespasses made skew to forsaking and not forgiving.” — Leo Koziol, Wairoa Maori Film Festival
Bringing Mere Home (Rated M)
Keelan Walker, 15 min Aotearoa
New Zealand. 1980s. Billy is driving home from one of his regular Sunday pub sessions when he comes across a mysterious young girl named Mere, stranded on the side of the road.
"A timely reminder of the cultural changes and social attitude changes that Māori have made towards alcohol, and the price we once paid." – Leo Koziol
Maunga Cassino (Rated M Violence & Offensive Language)
Paolo Rotondo, 15 min Aotearoa
Writers Paolo Rotondo, Rob Mokaraka
Italy, World War 2. A battle hardened Maori soldier loses his way crossing into enemy territory, pursuing a scrawny rooster into an abandoned stable. Inside, hidden in a bundle of hay an Italian deserter Salvatore waits to reach his family.
Kōkako (Rated M)
Douglas Brooks, 13 min Aotearoa
While Ashley searches the New Zealand wilderness for a bird presumed extinct, her isolation is disrupted by the intrusion of some uncomfortable family history.
"The underlying theme is dark and mournful, but this bounty of birds is a fantastical delight from start to finish, never will I think the same again when I visit my Ngāhere." – Leo Koziol
Biolumin
Moe Clark, Victoria Hunt (5 min) (Rated M)
An experimental examination of threshold states (note: contains nudity). Biolumin is an experimental examination of threshold states. Moving through deep space time in underwater realms, mirrored bodies spiral, suspend and dance through te reo Māori and nêhiyawêwin lamentations. Screened at imagineNATIVE 2023. In Cree and Māori languages.
