Don't miss this special event presented by
Ngā Aho Whakaari and Women In Film & Television NZ. Briar Grace
Smith and WIFT member Ainsley Gardiner
co-direct this eagerly anticipated film which is adapted from the
1992 Patricia Grace novel. The stellar cast includes Ana Scotney,
Rachel House, Tanea Heke and Briar Grace Smith. Click here to
watch the trailer.
A Q&A with Briar and Ainsley will follow
the screening. Click here to get your tickets!
When: screening starts at 7:45pm,
Thursday 4 March
Where: Rialto Cinemas Newmarket,
167-169 Broadway, Newmarket, Auckland
Cost: $17 NAW and WIFT members, $23.50
non-members.
Set over six decades, this powerful drama tells
the stories of three cousins separated by circumstances, who spend
a lifetime in search of each other.
Orphaned Mata (Heke) believes she has no whānau
and lives out her lonely childhood in fear and bewilderment. Back
home on the land, educated Makareta (Grace Smith) flees an arranged
marriage to study law and begin the search for her missing cousin.
She leaves behind cheeky yet dutiful Missy (House) who takes on her
role of kaitiaki (guardian) of the land. As the years pass, loss of
the family land seems imminent and the women's promise to bring
their stolen cousin home seems more unlikely than ever, until a
chance encounter changes everything
Cousins is produced byWIFT
member Libby Hakaraia (director of the
Māoriland Film Festival), Georgina Conder (The Breaker
Upperers) and Ainsley Gardiner (The
Breaker Upperers, Boy), and written by Briar Grace Smith, a
writer and a director of the portmanteau film Waru, and
the writer of The Strength Of Water.