Māoriland Film Festival 3.33

Tāria taku moko Māori ki ngā kiriata o te wā
Embed my native soul in film

The MAORILAND FILM FESTIVAL is an annual International Indigenous Film Festival in Otaki, New Zealand.

We intend to do for Otaki, what Robert Redford did for Park City, Utah. Every year Park City’s population of about 6,500 swells to 40,000 as filmmakers, the film industry and fans view movies from every corner of the planet at the SUNDANCE FESTIVAL. Careers have been launched at SUNDANCE (including that of Aotearoa’s Taika Waititi). SUNDANCE also runs filmmaking training programmes called Labs. These Labs have helped bring many films to the screen, including WHALERIDER and BOY. SUNDANCE is the preeminent independent film festival in the world.

The MAORILAND FILM FESTIVAL will become the premiere indigenous film festival in Aotearoa New Zealand. Indigenous cinema constitutes those films for which the key creatives - writer or/and director or/and producer - are themselves, native to a particular land or tribe. Maoriland is building relationships with the ImagineNATIVE festival in Toronto Canada - the largest indigenous film festival in the Northern Hemisphere - as well other premiere film festivals including Sundance and the Berlin Film Festival.

The MAORILAND FILM FESTIVAL includes the best of Maori films both short and feature length as well as films from around the world. Nau mai nau mai!

Join us for MAORILAND. MARCH 21-25 March 2018.