This Saturday 2 April sees Maori TV screen a short documentary by WIFT's own Executive Director, Susi Newborn.
If you think making "a good cup of tea and a pretty good scone" doesn't fit with seriously campaigning and roughing it for world peace - think again!
Kit Nelson and Maynie Thompson are two 90 year old peace activists who live on Waiheke Island in New Zealand.
Created as a tribute to the women on their 90th birthday, this film is a heart warming record of their lives, selling tea and scones at a local market to fund their worldwide protest for nuclear disarmament. From the 1984 two month "Walk for Life on Earth" - a walk from Auckland to Wellington resulting in New Zealand's nuclear-free legislation, to protests at the US Air Base in Greenham Common in Britain, to the "Great March for Nuclear Disarmament" - a nine month journey on foot across America - these two women walked the distance of true commitment to creating a safer world. This is their story.
Co-directed and produced by Susi Newborn and Claudia Pond-Eyley.
Nominated for Best Documentary (short) and Best Director at the 2010 DocumentaryEdge Film Festival.
