Screenings
Mana Waka
Thursday 27 November, Regent Theatre, The Octagon, 8.30pm
This 1990 film is based on original 1937 footage of Māori carvers recreating
the great fleet of waka that originally brought Māori to Aotearoa. This
is a rare South Island screening of Director Merata Mita's historically
significant film.
A film screening sponsored by the Centre for Research on National Identity
in association with the Division of Humanities and the Department of Media,
Film and Communication. Presented in cooperation with the New Zealand Film
Archive and the Turangawaewae Trust.
Silent Films (with live musical
accompaniment by Eli Gray-Smith)
Friday 28 November, Regent Theatre, The Octagon, 7.30pm
A Daughter of Dunedin, New Zealand 1928 (35 minutes)
A unique opportunity to see a rare screening of this locally filmed comedy
showing Dunedin at the end of the 1920s.
AND
The Kid Stakes, Australia 1927 (70 minutes)
A comedy centred on a boys' goat race, this is one of the few surviving
Australian silent feature films.
Film screening brought to you by the Division of Humanities and the Department
of Media, Film and Communication, presented in cooperation with the New
Zealand Film Archive and the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia.