Ngati - Wellington Film Society
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When:
| Mon 25 Jul ’11, 6:15pm–7:45pm |
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Where: The Paramount Theatre, 25 Courtenay Place, Wellington Show map
Restrictions: All Ages
Ticket Information:
- Members free. Memberships available at the door: $0.00
- 12-month membership: $95.00
- 3-film sampler membership: $33.00
- Booking fees may apply
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Barry Barclay | New Zealand | 1987 | PG
As the first feature film written and directed by Maori, Barry Barclay’s Ngati is a landmark in New Zealand cinema, and something of a classic. Ngati features notable contributions by writer Tama Poata (1936–2005) and actor Wi Kuki Kaa (1938–2006). The film is set in 1948 in a tiny Maori community on the East Cape where the district’s main employer, the freezing works, is facing closure. Despite its apparently gentle surface as the tale of a young Australian discovering his Kiwi roots, Ngati has considerable emotional depth and is especially rich in its observation of the myriad possible relationships between Maori ways and Pakeha. Both script and direction de-emphasise the personal or melodramatic in favour of a vital sense of inter-connection. That said, Wi Kuki Kaa and Connie Pewhairangi in particular lend great power and conviction to the film’s eloquent manifesto for Maori self-determination.
- Bill Gosden, Wellington Film Festival 2006.
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