Operation 8: Deep in the Forest
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When:
| Sat 15 Oct ’11, 11:45am |
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| Sat 15 Oct ’11, 6:15pm |
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Where: The Paramount Theatre, 25 Courtenay Place, Wellington Show map
Restrictions: All Ages
Favourites:
A feature length documentary on the 2007 police raids.
"The single most important New Zealand film in decades" - Crop Magazine.
On October 15, 2007, activists around New Zealand woke to guns in their faces. Black-clad police smashed down doors, dragging families out onto roads. In the rural village of Rūātoki, helicopters hovered while locals were stopped at roadblocks. Operation 8 involved 18 months of invasive surveillance of Māori sovereignty and peace activists accused of attending terrorist training camps in the Urewera ranges - homeland of the Tūhoe people. Operation 8 asks how and why the raids took place. How did the War on Terror become a global witch-hunt of political dissenters reaching even to the South Pacific?
"Compelling, humane, intelligent... This is a film that every New Zealander ought to see" - David Larsen, The Listener.
Festivals:
2011 World Cinema Showcase, 2011 Melbourne International Film Festival, 2011 Hawaii International Film Festival
Dur: 110mins
Rating: [E] Exempt
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